Pusher Manby Curtis Mayfield

Mavis Staples summarized Curtis Mayfield's work - "There's a beauty about him, an angelic state. Everything he wrote had a whole lot of love." Read a biography of this incredible musician: www.curtismayfield.com

As a songwriter, Mayfield became noted as one of the first musicians to bring more prevalent themes of social awareness into soul music. Learn more with DJ Michelle: http://blog.kexp.org/2010/01/13/kexp-documentaries-civil-rights-songs-–-people-get-ready/

Curtis Mayfield was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, first as a member of The Impressions and then as a solo artist: rockhall.com

Listen to KEXP's documentary on the amazing and immensely influential Curtis Mayfield! www.kexp.org And if you still can't get enough check out his cool website www.curtismayfield.com

"Curtis Mayfield started out in music at the age of 7, singing in his grandma’s church in Chicago. He taught himself guitar, keyboard, piano, saxophone and drums. When he was 14 he wrote a song 'Gypsy Woman' that would later hit the top of the charts. And at 16, he dropped out of high school to join a traveling gospel act who would become famous as the Impressions. Later on, like other African-American artists James Brown and Sam Cooke, he would become a businessman too, one who would help out other African- American artists and control the way all of their music was marketed and made." blog.kexp.org

Here's a Guardian biography of the late Curtis Mayfield, a "soul singer with a social message": www.theguardian.com

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More on Curtis in our KEXP Documentary series "The Heart of Soul." kexp.org

One of the few soundtracks that outsold the movie it was from.

Read more about Curtis Mayfield via our KEXP Documentary series. blog.kexp.org

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Curtis wrote the entire Superfly soundtrack.

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