Healing Hearts and Providing Empowering Messages of Spiritual Insight and Love Through the Original Creative Works of Articles & Poetry
by Anna 'Ms.Poet' Hendricks
Happy Birthday Aquarius! Here's my list of celebrity Aquarian's who celebrated birthday's with you this week. Also included in today's Inspirational Love Note, with all you water bearer's in mind, is my Love Light Spot Light artist for this week, famous Aquarius Bob Marley. So check out the list of celebrity Aquarius below. Then enjoy the short featured article and video featuring, Legendary Aquarius, Bob Marley with today's Inspirational Love Note message through song. February 2 Rapper - Gucci Mane ~ 34 February 3 Singer - Sean Kingston ~ 24 February 4 Civil Rights Activist - Rosa Parks ~ 1913 - 2005 Boxer - Oscar de la Hoya ~ 41 February 5 Legendary Major League Baseball Player - Hank Aaron ~ 80 Singer (Former member of the R&B group New Edition- Bobby Brown ~ 45 February 6 Legendary Reggae Singer - Bob Marley ~ 1945-1981 Jazz & Pop Singer and daughter of Legendary Singer Nat King Cole - Natalie Cole ~ 64 Actor - Robert Townsend ~ 57 February 7 Comedian - Chris Rock ~ 49 Actor - Ashton Kutcher ~ 36 Actress - Essence Atkins ~ 42 February 8
Actor - Pooch Hall ~ 37
February 9 Actor - Joe Pesci ~ 71 Actress - Camille Winbush ~ 24 ( known for her role as Vanessa on the Bernie Mac show) February 10 Legendary Singer - Roberta Flack ~ 77 February 11 Singer - Kelly Rowland ~ 33 Singer/Actress - Brandy ~ 35 Actress - Jennifer Aniston ~ 45 Singer - Sheryl Crow ~52 Actor - Burt Reynolds ~78 Politician - Sarah Palin ~50 February 12 U.S. President- Abraham Lincoln ~(1809-1865) Actor/Comedian/TV Show Host - Arsenio Hall February 13 TV Show Host - Jerry Springer ~70 February 14 TV Actress - Florence Henderson ~ 80 (most known for her role as Carol Brady on The Brady Bunch) And this weeks celebrity in the Love Light Spot Light,is the man who introduced Reggae music to the world, Loss Legend and celebrity Aquarius, Bob Marley. Here are a few factoids you may not have known about Bob Marley: He was born to interracial parents, his father was European - Jamaican of British heritage and his mother was African-Jamaican. His birth name is Nesta Robert Marley and his first but a Jamaican passport official mistakenly switched around his first and middle name to Robert Nesta Marley. He was born February 6, 1945 on his maternal grandfather's farm in Nine Mile, Saint Ann Parish, Jamaican. And later, after marrying his wife Rita Anderson in 1966, he moved to the United States for a short while in Wilmington, Delaware to be near his mother who had moved there earlier. While living in Wilmington, Delaware he worked for DuPont as a lab assistant and on the assembly line at Chrysler under the alias name, Donald Marley. He was raised a Catholic by his mom and converted to Rastafari in the 60's after moving away from his mother's influence in Wilmington, Delaware back to his homeland Jamaica. Bob Marley, his wife Rita and his manager Don Taylor suffered gunshot wounds from an assassination attempt on his life on December 3, 1976 and he still showed up to perform for the concert he was preparing for two days later called, Smile Jamaica, organized by the Prime Minister of Jamaica at the time, Michael Manley. At the end of 1976 Bob Marley left Jamaica and lived in England for 2 years in self-imposed exile. Although Marley was a devout Rastafari for several years, on November 4, 1980 shortly before his death, he was baptised into Christianity by Archbishop Abuna Yeseshaq of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church in Kingston Jamaica. He was awarded the Peace Medal of the Third World from the United Nations in 1978. In February 1981, just a few months before his death, he was awarded Jamaica's third highest honor, the Jamaican Order of Merit making his official name and title Nesta Robert Marley OM. Bob Marley died on May 11, 1981 in Miami after a long battle with a form of cancer called melanoma that had spread throughout his body including his lungs and brain which was the cause of his death. Long after his death he continued to receive accolades and awards for his legendary contributions to music which included a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in February 2001.
In 2004 he was ranked number 11 on Rolling Stones list of 100 Greatest Artist of All Time. Bob Marley...a loss legend who's memory will always be honored and his music will always be anInspirational Love Note to the hearts and minds of generations still yet to come. In closing, enjoy this video to one of his most popular songs to date,One Love, that was named song of the millennium by the BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation) and a perfect song with a perfect message to also honor both Black History Month and Valentines Day today.
Happy Birthday Aquarius! Here's a list of celebrity Aquarius who celebrated birthday's with you this week. Also included in today's Inspirational Love Note, with all you water bearer's in mind, is my Love Light Spot Light Friday song artist for this week, famous Aquarius R&B singer, Anita Baker. So check out the list of celebrity Aquarius below. Then enjoy the short featured article and video on Anita Baker with today's Inspirational Love Note message through song. January 26th Ellen DeGeneres-TV Show Host/Comedian, turned 56 Kirk Franklin - Gospel Singer/Song Writer, turned 44 Anita Baker - R&B Singer, turned 56 January 27th John Witherspoon - Actor, turned 72
January 28th Rick Ross - Rapper, turned 38 Anthony Hamilton - R&B Singer, turned 43 January 29th Oprah Winfrey -TV Show Host/Owner of Station Network OWN, turned 60 Charlie Wilson - R&B Singer, turned 61 Tom Selleck - Actor, turned 69 Adam Lambert - Singer (American Idol), turned 32 January 30th Christian Bale - Actor (Played Batman), turned 40 Phil Collins - Singer, turned 63 Charles Dutton - Actor, turned 63 Jody Watley - R&B Singer, turned 55 (former member of 80's group Shalamar and Soul Train Dancer)
January 31st Aquarius:
Justin Timberlake -Singer/Actor, turned 33 Kerry Washington - Actor (Star of ABC's drama Scandal), turned 37 And this weeks celebrity in the Love Light Spot Light,is R&B singer and Aquarius, Anita Baker. Born Anita Denise Baker, January 26, 1958 in Toledo, Ohio, she was given up at the age of two by her teenage mother to live and be raised by a foster family in Detroit, Michigan. At the age of twelve her foster parents died and she was raised by her foster sister until adulthood. She began singing at the age of sixteen at various Detroit night clubs where she was discovered by bandleader, David Washington, who invited her to audition for the funk band, Chapter 8. In 1975 she joined the group Chapter 8 and toured with them as their lead singer. In 1979 the group signed a record deal with Ariola Records and recorded their first album, Chapter 8 featuring singles like, "Ready for Your Love" and the more popular classic single from the group with Anita as lead singer, "I Just Want to Be Your Girl". That same year Ariola was bought out by Arista Records and both Anita and the group she was a part of, Chapter 8, were dropped from the label. But as fate would have it, Anita received a call in 1982 from a former associate of Ariola Records, Otis Smith, and convinced her to sign to his Beverly Glen label and her solo career as we know her for today was born with the release of her debut album, The Songstress, which produced classic singles from it like, "No More Tears", "You're the Best Thing Yet", and one of her most popular songs yet still today, "Angel". Since then Anita has put out numerous albums with chart breaking hit singles that are timeless classics likes, "Caught Up in the Rapture, "Sweet Love", "You Bring Me Joy" from her second album, Rapture in 1986. And the classic hits kept coming with her follow-up third album, Giving You the Best That I Got, which included classics like, "Just Because", Fairy Tales, and the title track that's still heavily requested at urban weddings all over today, "Giving You the Best That I Got".
The list of timeless classic hits by Anita Baker continue on long and strong well into the new millennium even after taking a long hiatus from 1996 to the early 2ooo's to raise her two sons. More recently, Baker returned to the spotlight with the release of her recorded version of Tyrese's hit, "Lately" in August of 2012. She not only made national headlines with the release of the song she made history with it as well. The single was played in heavy rotation every hour on the hour on urban contemporary stations across the country making Anita Baker the first artist to ever make a song debut of this kind. Anita Baker...A classy Lady, a Living Legend, and a Songstress of Love who's body of musical work will remain timeless classics for generations to come. Fun facts fans may not know about Anita Baker: Did you know Anita Baker's singing career almost didn't happen? When the 70's group, Chapter 8, she began her professional singing career in and sang lead for was dropped from Arista Records in 1979, the label told Anita she didn't have a "star quality" singing voice. So she returned to Detroit and became a waitress and law firm secretary. Can you believe that? The world was almost deprived of her gift that is clearly a God infused talent.
Anita Baker is also an eight time Grammy winner from seventeen nominations, four American Music Awards from nine nominations, and seven Soul Train Awards from twelve nominations. Anita also received a Hollywood Walk of Fame Star in 1994. And she won the 2005 Artist of the Year at the Canadian Smooth Jazz Awards. Now here's Anita Baker with this weeks Love Light Spotlight song, "Lead Me Into Love", one of my favorites by her, from her third album released in 1988, Giving You the Best That I Got.
Until next time...I surround you in LOVE & light! So remember to always keep your heart open and your love light shining bright. A One Love Production By Anna Ms.Poet Hendricks Copyright 2014 References: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anita_Baker, Anita Baker, "Lead Me into Love" video, http://www.youtube.com/,
