KUVO Broadcast — King of Beats: A J Dilla Tribute by ManyColors

KUVO presents King of Beats: A Tribute to J Dilla by ManyColors on Wednesday, June 26 at 7 pm.

James Dewitt Yancey, better known by the stage names J Dilla and Jay Dee, was an American record producer and rapper who emerged in the mid-1990s underground hip-hop scene in Detroit, Michigan, as one-third of the music group Slum Village. He was also a member of the Soulquarians, a musical collective active during the late 1990s and early 2000s.

Although his life and career were short, J Dilla is widely considered to be one of the most influential producers in the hip-hop genre. It was described in The Guardian that “his affinity for crafting lengthy, melodic loops peppered with breakbeats and vocal samples took instrumental hip-hop into new, more musically complex realms.”

ManyColors pays homage to the great J Dilla with an inspired soul-hop stew of fresh jazz harmonies embedded in a lo-fi soundscape with an irresistible rhythmic pocket. An emergent four-piece band, ManyColors opens up new musical space by using a hip-hop format to explore chords and motifs usually reserved for jazz.

Tune in for this J Dilla Tribute by ManyColors on KUVO…on the air 89.3 FM, on the stream, on the app, and KUVO YouTube and Twitch channels on Wednesday, June 26 at 7 pm.

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