{"id":49041,"date":"2016-09-10T21:16:07","date_gmt":"2016-09-10T21:16:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=49041"},"modified":"2016-09-10T21:16:07","modified_gmt":"2016-09-10T21:16:07","slug":"luck-o-the-irish-black-artists-from-the-emerald-isle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=49041","title":{"rendered":"Luck O\u2019 the Irish: Black Artists from the Emerald Isle"},"content":{"rendered":"

Luck O\u2019 the Irish: Black Artists from the Emerald Isle<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

SoulTrain.com<\/a>
\n2016-03-17<\/p>\n

Rhonda Nicole<\/strong><\/a>, Managing Editor<\/p>\n

U2<\/a> graced us with one of the greatest songs in the history of music, \u201cStill Haven\u2019t Found What I\u2019m Looking For<\/a>,\u201d and spammed everyone\u2019s Apple<\/a> devices with an album many never asked for (2014\u2019s Songs of Innocence<\/em><\/a>). Sin\u00e9ad O\u2019Connor<\/a> teased as she sang \u201cI Want Your (Hands On Me)<\/a>,\u201d teared up as she crooned \u201cNothing Compares 2 U<\/a>,\u201d and tore up a photo of the pope<\/a>. The Cranberries<\/a> begged to let it \u201cLinger<\/a>,\u201d while Hozier<\/a> pleaded \u201cTake Me to Church<\/a>\u201d (interestingly, O\u2019Connor did as well, although it was a completely different song). Scan any pop or rock radio station, and you\u2019re bound to hear a tune or two from Irish musical acts. The Corrs<\/a>, The Frames<\/a>, Enya<\/a>, and countless others have dominated the American musical landscape for decades, becoming as essential a part of popular music experience as your standard issue garage band<\/a>-turned Grammy<\/a> darling.<\/p>\n

Whereas other European countries have gifted us with a rather diverse cadre of acts of color\u2014British artists like Omar Lye-Fook<\/a>, Corinne Bailey Rae<\/a>, Lianne La Havas<\/a>, Estelle<\/a>, and Brand New Heavies<\/a>; Ben l\u2019Oncle Soul<\/a>, Les Nubians<\/a>, and Corneille<\/a> from France<\/a>; and Belgium\u2019s<\/a> Zap Mama<\/a>, Jean-Louis Daulne, and Technotronic\u2019s<\/a> Ya Kid K<\/a> (by way of the Democratic Republic of Congo<\/a>), Ireland<\/a>, not all that surprisingly, hasn\u2019t produced nearly as many. According to the 2006 Irish census, just around 1% of the country\u2019s population self-identified as black. Still, black actors, athletes, writers, and politicians have made an impact on Irish culture, be they Irish-born or immigrants from various parts of Africa<\/a> and the Caribbean<\/a>. And black Irish musicians, though perhaps not as readily recognizable here in the U.S., are equally as notable as their British and French counterparts…<\/p>\n

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Luck O\u2019 the Irish: Black Artists from the Emerald Isle SoulTrain.com 2016-03-17 Rhonda Nicole, Managing Editor U2 graced us with one of the greatest songs in the history of music, \u201cStill Haven\u2019t Found What I\u2019m Looking For,\u201d and spammed everyone\u2019s Apple devices with an album many never asked for (2014\u2019s Songs of Innocence). Sin\u00e9ad O\u2019Connor […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,24,28,8],"tags":[246,14114,1392,6650,24953,24949,24952,24951,24950],"class_list":["post-49041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-arts","category-europe","category-media-archive","tag-ireland","tag-laura-izibor","tag-music","tag-phil-lynott","tag-rejjie-snow","tag-rhonda-nicole","tag-samantha-mumba","tag-soul-train","tag-soultrain-com"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49041"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49041\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49042,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49041\/revisions\/49042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}