![]() ![]() Led an interesting life that was just as wild and energetic as his onstage presence.Įddie Robinson: A self-proclaimed originator and innovator, rock and roll music. This highly influential and legendary singer songwriter, performer. Before Elvis, there was this man right here, Little Richard. I SEE U.Įddie Robinson: You’re listening to I SEE U. The film also highlights musicians, scholars, friends, and family who paid tribute to Little Richard’s courage and his remarkable contributions to music.Įddie Robinson: Oh yeah. Her documentary showcases the music icons journey from growing up in Georgia to his complicated later years as an evangelist who had renounce his homosexuality. Lisa Cortés: We know about appropriation, but it is oblation that is the greater tragedy.Įddie Robinson: I’m Eddie Robinson and stay tuned as I SEE U Chat’s unguarded with acclaimed film director Lisa Cortés. But when white performers like Pat Boone and Elvis Presley sang covers of his songs, they soared to the top of the charts. White owned radio stations banned his music. A gay black man in the 1950s was a pioneer of the music industry. I SEE U will also dive into her own personal life story, as the former Def Jam record label executive offers up her thoughts on today’s LGBTQ+ artists and performers maneuvering through the music industry in their quest to make a name for themselves.Įddie Robinson: Little Richard. ![]() Join us as host Eddie Robinson chats unguarded with celebrated director, Lisa Cortés, about her critically-acclaimed documentary, “Little Richard: I Am Everything.” Cortés shares insight into how the film was conceived and why it was important for her to reveal the struggles of Richard Wayne Penniman – a musical icon who was coming to terms with being a man of faith as well as being a man who was queer. The film showcases a bold, audacious man who’s trying to navigate his life through sex, drugs, rock and roll, and the Lord – with the help of archival footage mixed with deep, social context from family, friends, scholars, ethnomusicologists, and on-screen fact-checkers. The very complicated legacy of entertainer Little Richard is thoroughly examined in a new documentary by Emmy Award-winning filmmaker, Lisa Cortés. ![]()
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