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Post by George on May 1, 2014 12:13:14 GMT -5
Footage from her concert in Berkeley this past weekend (don't mind the cuts, my phone kept running out of memory!). Plus, I'll post my review later!
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Post by George on May 5, 2014 13:05:41 GMT -5
My review is up, thanks to UrbanBridgez.com!
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Post by George on Jun 13, 2014 12:43:50 GMT -5
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Post by George on Jun 25, 2014 15:31:55 GMT -5
6MicFilms just released a mini-film from the R&B Summer Jam concert last week: Additionally, Adina's DJ just uploaded the WHOLE SET on YouTube! Setlist: Like Me T-Shirt and Panties Buttnaked Switch Nasty Grind Hip Hop Medley Freak Like Me
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Post by George on Aug 5, 2014 13:28:56 GMT -5
She'll be performing this Saturday in Ontario, CA!
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Post by SHOOTER on Aug 5, 2014 14:16:44 GMT -5
Where the hell is the album? Switch was too hot to flop to me.
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Post by George on Aug 6, 2014 14:53:52 GMT -5
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Post by George on Aug 21, 2014 16:20:16 GMT -5
Where Are They Now: @adinahoward 20 Years After “Freak Like Me” [EXCLUSIVE]WOTSN / August 21, 2014 Yes really it has been nearly 20 years since the #1 smash and multi-platinum hit was released! WOTSN had the pleasure of catching up with Adina Howard-Jordan (she’s been married almost 3 years now) to find out exactly what Ms. T Shirt & Panties has been up to! First of all Adina wants her fans to know that one of the things she has accomplished during her hiatus was receiving an Associates Degree in Culinary Arts. She expressed that she loves cooking but more so the gratification of the finished product and feeding people. She explained that her decision to go back to school was to empower her self so that she would always have options outside of music. The now Mrs. Jordan is working on some new music and has some projects up her sleeve… When asked about her relationship with music Mrs. Adina let me know that she cant relate to music right now… She also said that she would like to work with Rihanna then she gets playful and laughs saying: Adina is in love with the young women that are running the music game right now (she mentions Beyonce and Nicki Minaj as well) she says its something about seeing women being so successful in the music business or any business that’s empowering and important. The concept for a “Freak Like Me” was tailor made just for her! After meeting with a producer in Maryland and going thru some tracks, Adina picked Freak Like Me but said it had to be “tweeked” to fit her… After some fixing and adjusting Freak Like Me was born! That in your face I don’t care what you think of me freedom she displayed in her image was no accident that is the real Adina! In fact she says playfully She reflects on her life and says: I was pleasantly surprised at how deep and spiritual Mrs. Howard-Jordan has become. She keeps a positive word of encourage for everyone and says she prides herself these days on being “her sisters keeper” and just wants to teach and help other women on their journeys. Just know that we haven’t heard the last of Adina… she is currently starring in a play titled Do You Trust Your Best Friend, working on some music that she says we can expect everything from, and hopefully sooner than later there will be a spiritual memoir for everyone to be inspired, as I was, by her kind truth.
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Post by George on Aug 28, 2014 14:02:47 GMT -5
She's recording a duet with Link ("Whatcha Gone Do?")!
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Post by George on Sept 8, 2014 14:22:04 GMT -5
Female Hip Hop Honor Awards growing by leaps and boundsSep 7, 2014 By Courier Newsroom Monarchy Records artist Adina Howard will perform at the 3rd Female Hip Hop Honor Awards Sept. 13 at the Warner Grand Theatre, Los Angeles, Calif. from 7 p.m.-12 a.m. (Red Carpet 6 p.m.-7 p.m.). Hosted by BET comedian Melanie Comarcho and “The Funny Man” himself Mr. Rodney Perry. The 3rd Female Hip Hop Honor Awards ceremony is growing by leaps and bounds as it prepares for the big day on September 13 and now the long-anticipated event has added a broadcast partner, to bring the show to exited fans everywhere. Prime TV, the nation‘s fastest growing “connected” TV network, has signed on to broadcast this star-studded event, making it possible for viewers to enjoy all the fun on a variety of devices, through the cutting-edge Roku Player, and on mainstream television. This year the Red Carpet will be televised live on the Prime TV Network. This year’s “Pionee Award” recipient is legendary rap group Oaktown’s 3.5.7, the “Lyrics For Life” recipient will be Da Brat, Michel’le, a legendary R&B songstress will be recognized with the “R&B and Hip Hop Lifetime Achievement Award”, B.M.B. artist Charli Baltimore, will receive the “Unstoppable Woman Award” and This year’s “Humanitarian Award” goes to Doreen Broadnax, aka Sparky D! The night will also consist of special performances by Oaktown’s 3.5.7, “The HUSEL” a.k.a. Musiq Soulchild, Adina Howard (Freak Like Me), VH1’s Loe & Hip Hop ATL star Joseline Hernandez, Gourdon Banks, Lola Monroe, SIYA, Young Lyric, (UK) Lady Leshurr, (UK) Bella Gotti, Formally Signed to Ne-Yo’s imprint Compound University R&B singer RaVaughn, R&B Sensation Sammie The Legendary Medusa Sparky D and many more. (For more information on the awards go to http://www.undergroundgirlsofhiphop.com.)
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Post by George on Sept 15, 2014 15:12:10 GMT -5
Unfortunate news about her upcoming leading role in "Do You Trust Your Best Friend": Not to mention some label drama: In brighter news, she looked AMAZING at this past weekend's Female Hip Hop Honors!
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Post by SHOOTER on Sept 15, 2014 16:42:22 GMT -5
Do these indie artists even have lawyers vetting these contracts before they sign?
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Post by George on Sept 24, 2014 14:57:39 GMT -5
She now has a new role in the play, as "Olivia" (previously played by Michel'le in a past version):
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Post by George on Oct 6, 2014 14:22:36 GMT -5
"Do You Trust Your Best Friend" finished it's DC run this past weekend featuring a SOLD OUT show! Next up is Baltimore on Oct 24/25! Adina w/Roni Graham:
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Post by George on Oct 17, 2014 1:35:11 GMT -5
Adina just did a radio interview w/MyRealTalkRadio and among the many things they discussed, she mentioned she's still recording in the studio, and is aiming for the album's release at the "top of the year." Additionally, she'll be appearing on Centric's upcoming series either called "Before and After" or "Where Are They Now?" also in the beginning of the new year. Her favorite song that she's recorded is "Missing You" in addition to a song called "Closure" which she calls her best song vocally. Upcoming events for her include the Baltimore, MD run of "Do You Trust Your Best Friend" Oct 24-25, as well as a show in Columbus, OH on November 1st. www.blogtalkradio.com/myrealtalkradio100-/2014/10/15/adina-howard-live-on-myrealtalkradio
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Post by George on Nov 13, 2014 13:39:47 GMT -5
New label:
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New single!
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Post by George on Nov 24, 2014 13:43:15 GMT -5
New interview: Confirms new record label (SMG/Sony Red), will be on Centric's "Being" in the new year, new doo wop-themed single "Bad 4 Me" will be released in December, and her album/cookbook are on the horizon (with no set dates) for 2015. Additionally, her track "Personal Freak" with Bizzy Bone (originally included on her shelved "Welcome to Fantasy Island" album) is now available on digital services as part of Bizzy Bone's new release "Revival." itunes.apple.com/us/album/revival/id871750949
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Post by George on Dec 12, 2014 15:05:52 GMT -5
The documentary Adina Howard 20: A Story of Sexual Liberation will be premiering early next year!
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Post by George on Feb 3, 2015 13:59:14 GMT -5
She did a radio interview a few days ago: www.blogtalkradio.com/thentunedshow/2015/01/31/msp-chat-with-icon-adina-howard#.VM1ty3q5_GA.twitterUpdates:"Switch" may or may not appear on her forthcoming EP/LP. New single ("Bad 4 Me") set to premiere in the next few months. Her episode of CentricTV's "Being" will premiere in March. The documentary "Adina Howard 20: A Story of Sexual Liberation" will be released on May 6, 2015. Two upcoming concert dates: Feb 13 (IV Corners Bar and Grill, Little Rock, AR) + Apr 4 (Music Hall Center for the Performing Arts, Detroit, MI). Also, I never noticed someone (Das Racist's Heems) finally came out with a song titled "Adina Howard":
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Post by SHOOTER on Feb 3, 2015 14:43:26 GMT -5
Switch is a jam! She better not exclude it.
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Post by George on Mar 13, 2015 14:12:44 GMT -5
New profile feature on EBONY! FREAK LIKE SHE: Adina Howard Lays It On the LineThe racy songstress speaks on her new documentary and sexual liberation, from her groundbreaking single to Nicki Minaj By Glennisha Morgan 26 February 2015 Twenty years ago, a laid-back Michigan girl by the name of Adina Howard burst on the scene with one of the most straight-forward declarations of female sexuality to ever be heard on wax. “Let me lay it on the line. I got a freakiness inside,” Howard once sang on her 1995 hit record, “Freak Like Me.” The seasoned entertainer, cook and wife is now laying it all on the line in a new documentary, Adina Howard 20: A Story of Sexual Liberation. We spoke with Howard about her new upcoming film and navigating autonomy in a world and industry where objectification is lucrative and Black female sexuality, demonized and celebrated all at once. EBONY: You went from a shy girl being forced to sing for company by your mother to a sex symbol. How did you become so liberated to fully express yourself through your music and image?
Adina Howard: I just wanted to do me and be me. I didn’t care about other people’s perception of me. I’m one of those people that at the end of the day, no matter what you do people may or may not like you. Just be true to yourself, do right by other people and keep moving. EBONY: You were making hits in the 90’s, then you went away for a while, went to school for culinary arts, got married and now you have an upcoming documentary. Why now?AH: A gentleman by the name of Gezus Zaire has been following my career for a while and he wanted to document my journey. “A Freak Like Me” turned 20 on January 25. So he felt it would be a great idea to release it around that time to celebrate the 20th anniversary. This is his idea. I don’t find myself to be that interesting. EBONY: With the 20th anniversary, that’s the perfect time to do it.AH: You’re right. It definitely is. It’s so amazing to me that 20 years has gone by so quickly. Two decades have gone by and it’s like where was I. Even though I was the one who initiated the song, I wasn’t really present. I was so focused on doing my job, that so many things have passed by me. EBONY: Looking back, is there anything that you would have like to change or have done differently?AH: Yes! There are so many things that I would do differently. I would have paid a lot more attention to my business and I would be a lot more humble. I would have opened my eyes and ears and shut my mouth a lot more. There’s so many things I would have done differently, but at the end of the day, I don’t dwell on it because what happened, happened and it got me to this point. EBONY: What’s your outlook on today’s R&B?AH: There’s not enough of it. There’s not as much variety as it was back in the 80’s and 90’s. It’s so watered down and just reduced to a handful of entertainers when there are so many talented people out there. The business has changed where they’re focused on the money makers and not the potential of money that could be made, if they would broaden their perspective. They just want to drain the Beyonces, Rihannas, Lady GaGas and the Selena Gomezs. There’s so much room. There’s so many beautiful voices out there and it’s so sad that we’re being deprived due to greed. EBONY: Are there any artists today that you like?AH: Oh my God, I love so many people! There’s so much good music out here. I’m always on my Google Play store. Bruno Mars. There’s a young lady by the name of Snow Allegra. She has a song called “Paradise” that I’m in love with. Chrisette Michelle. I love me some Amy Winehouse. Jessie J and Colbie Caillat. I don’t just listen to R&B, I listen to everything. EBONY: There’s been a lot of conversation around Beyonce being a self-proclaimed feminist and singing about desiring and pleasing her husband and expressing herself as a sexual being. Do you consider yourself a feminist or a womanist? And as a sexually liberated married woman how do you find balance in adhering to your own desires and pleasing your husband?AH: Not necessarily. I don’t like titles and boxes. I believe what I believe. I don’t even focus on that because I don’t know that it’s necessary. I stand by my actions and my words, but I don’t know. I don’t care. People will see me as a feminist, but I don’t really focus on it. I just live my life. Everyone should have the right to express them self however she chooses, without having to be labeled something. It’s all about compromise and timing. I married someone who is a working man. He’s not in the industry. When he comes home from work, after working 10 long hours, I know what it is for the most part that he needs and or wants. And sometimes that’s just a hot meal. It’s not even about sex. For us, it’s different. I’m not Beyonce and he’s not Jay Z. So we don’t have that dynamic as to we can fly all over the world. He’s a 9-to-5 brotha. Everyone just has to function within the parameter of their marriage. EBONY: In the documentary you mention that, “We’re [women] only sensual and sexy when men want us to be.” The male gaze is always going to exist. How do you feel women can navigate self expression sexually without crossing over to objectification?AH: Women and people in general have to do what they’re comfortable with. At any point, if you’re doing something that you don’t necessarily want to do or you’re being forced to do it, that’s objectification. If you’re not doing it because that makes you feel good or it’s liberating to you then that’s a problem. Do it because you feel good doing it, you feel liberated doing it and you don’t care what everybody thinks or says. So many women right now are seeking attention and they are objectifying themselves because of that. When I did it, I wasn’t seeking attention. It was just who I was at the time and how I felt comfortable being. I didn’t have to deal with a whole lot of drama. Of course, you have a lot of ignorant ones, who feel like it doesn’t really matter who the woman is, that they can have their way with that woman. You always have those kind of individuals, but for the most part if you put yourself out there and you have the mindset that you’re doing you with no apologies and in a manner that’s not going to hurt or harm anyone, you can’t go wrong. EBONY: When you have a Black woman like Nicki Minaj celebrating big butts (“Anaconda”), it’s a problem, but when Jennifer Lopez and Iggy Azalea (“Booty”) do it, it’s applauded. How do you feel we as Black women can continue to create and celebrate ourselves without worrying about being policed and demonized?AH: I think that we as women of color and specifically sistas have to do it differently. When you look at hip-hop videos, that’s the image that they’re so used to seeing of us. It’s to the point, where they’re like "Can y’all do something different" and I get it. When you look at the Jennifer Lopezs, the Iggy Azaleas and the Latinas, they’re not usually doing that. When we do it as women of color on this side of the spectrum, "It’s like here they go again." When are we going to do something different? A lot different? To the point where we can still be sexy, but not just putting booty all in the face. We’ve been doing that since 1995 and that started with me. I put my ass in your face on the first album cover and it just went bananas. So that’s now all that we’re doing. It’s not to just keep it going. What else can we do? There are other ways to show sexy. I don’t think we’ve grasped that yet. Until we redefine what that is for our community, I think that backlash is going to always be there. It’s so expected. I think Nicki Minaj is a beautiful young lady, but when I saw the “Anaconda” video, I was like "Okay, great. Nice ass, but what are you doing different?" I don’t think she needed to go there, but I get it. That’s one of her most successful assets. EBONY: Can we expect any new music from you?AH: New music is coming. We have something in the works right now. Hopefully, it’ll be here sooner than later. I think you all will be very pleased and pleasantly surprised with the unexpected. Adina Howard 20: A Story of Sexual Liberation premieres online at AllHipHop.com and ColourfulRadio.com on May 6.
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Post by George on Mar 13, 2015 14:15:01 GMT -5
Adina's got a new GoFundMe.com campaign to raise funds for her upcoming single "Bad 4 Me"!
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Post by George on Apr 21, 2015 13:36:05 GMT -5
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Post by George on May 1, 2015 13:16:58 GMT -5
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Post by George on May 4, 2015 15:35:22 GMT -5
Here's two teaser posters for the upcoming documentary Adina Howard 20: A Story of Sexual Liberation which premieres this Wednesday, May 6th!
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Post by SHOOTER on May 4, 2015 17:51:22 GMT -5
^premiering where?
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Post by George on May 4, 2015 23:02:33 GMT -5
Vimeo! Also, first review is up:
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Post by George on May 6, 2015 15:46:02 GMT -5
FULL documentary has premiered on Vimeo!
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Post by SHOOTER on May 6, 2015 21:18:19 GMT -5
I'll check it out on the plane tomorrow.
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