Why don’t you take Minus One, Plus One to another level and consider supporting black artists who perform music not specifically marketed to urban audiences.

Diversify your concept of blackness, folks.

In the meantime, check out Rissi Palmer. A black woman born in Pittsburgh and raised in St. Louis.

A recent MSNBC article said,

Rissi Palmer still laughs about the looks she saw on people’s faces when she stepped on stage in some of Nashville’s honky-tonk bars.
“There’s not a lot of black people in these places, so a lot of times it was like, ’Is it R&B night here? What’s going on,”’ she says.
“But then when they heard our set and what we were doing, they’d say, ’Oh, she’s for real. Wow.”’

Any other black artists who don’t rap or sing R&B, gospel or blues you suggest?

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