Melanie Fiona’s Dusty Fingers pt.1 (Video)

Melanie Fiona represents the next chapter in a storied history of female soul singers to possess the passion, power and grace to lift the spirits of the musical hopeful with the simple sound of her voice. But God given ability aside, Melanie is most importantly, an avid music maniac! Dusty Fingers, the newest series in the Yours Truly canon, is set inside San Francisco’s best record stores, and is meant to demonstrate that all artists are first and foremost, fans.

Melanie and I met at Rooky Ricardo’s Records, home of the finest selection of 60’s and 70’s Northern Soul, Disco, Blues and Oldies 45’s and LP’s. Once inside, the conversation quickly turned to Sam Cooke, an early idol of Melanie’s and a singer she recently honored with a cover of Cupid from her latest collaborative mixtape with ?uestlove. In this clip she did not draw back her bow but she did burst into some bars from You Send Me right in the middle of the store!

Then she spotted Off the Wall on the shelf. This was shot months before Michael’s untimely passing but once MJ came up, Melanie began to dance and beaming about him “Anything from Off the Wall comes on and I can Moonwalk…when you hear that OOOOOO, anywhere you are, when a Mike record comes on the tone is set.”

Part 1 of our 2 part Dusty Fingers series with Melanie concludes with a heated discussion of her live performance, something I very much look forward to seeing very soon.

PREVIOUS: WQST Presents: Melanie Fiona Meets The Illadelphonics (A Live Remix Jam Session of The Bridge)

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~ by Shake on July 16, 2009.

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10 Responses to “Melanie Fiona’s Dusty Fingers pt.1 (Video)”

  1. i really enjoyed
    the mixtape…

    and this video is
    very well put together

    Stephon said this on July 16th, 2009 at 2:02 pm

  2. I’ld smash

    BGT said this on July 16th, 2009 at 4:05 pm

  3. ^^^Second that
    anyways she is very dope
    the mixtape was dope

    B Tank said this on July 16th, 2009 at 4:18 pm

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    |VIDEO|: Melanie Fiona’s Dusty Fingers Pt. 1 said this on July 16th, 2009 at 8:38 pm

  5. When is the mixtape coming out?

    Vigilante said this on July 17th, 2009 at 6:17 pm

  6. …about a week (in the past)
    http://2dopeboyz.okayplayer.com/2009/07/11/wqst-presents-melanie-fiona-meets-the-illadelphonics-a-live-remix-jam-session-of-the-bridge/

    Shake said this on July 17th, 2009 at 6:18 pm

  7. [...] it in tomorrow Soothing Session but fuck it. Applaud Canada. They sure know how to produce great women. Shouts to YK on the [...]

    Anjulie - Boom (Video) | 2dopeboyz said this on July 18th, 2009 at 6:55 pm

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    Anjulie - Boom (Video) said this on July 18th, 2009 at 8:14 pm

  9. quite the talented and insightful lady

    tmo said this on July 19th, 2009 at 9:42 am

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