Noel Gourdin will visit the 2008 Essence Music Festival, so says this new press release.
Essence doesn’t have any info as of this writing about Noel Gourdin’s visit to their 2008 Essence Music Festival, but I’m sure they’ll update eventually.
Noel Gourdin just posted on his MySpace blog a message to check out this new video for The River…
Nice.
And there’s a river in it.
Noel Gourdin can really, really sing.
I mean blow straight from his soul. Unlike some studio singer’s whose voices are morphed or drowned out by lots of sampling and such, Noel Gourdin doesn’t need any of that!
You can tell from that opening of Noel singing unaccompanied at the beginning of The River music video.
Caught this Style Weekly piece about Noel Gourdin, thanks to my Google Alert.
I didn’t know Noel Gourdin kept his cell phone number on his MySpace page!
Oh my…
I won’t call him, though.
I suspect Noel will one day take that mug off, when he hits Oprah status. Or change his cell phone number every month, like I hear LeBron James does. Don’t know if that’s really true…
But I’m glad for him and learning more about him all the time. Like the fact that Noel’s CD — cleverly called “After My Time” — will finally drop July 22, 2008.
It’s interesting that Noel Gourdin said his grandpeeps were baptized in the river.
I wonder was he?
I just hear The River by Noel Gourdin played on the Tom Joyner Morning Show this morning. It was right after Tavis Smily finished his commentary that I heard those opening strains of The River welling up behind Tom Joyner’s voice.
But Tom Joyner didn’t give the name of The River by Noel Gourdin, so I thought I’d better put up a post about it for all those black folks that raced down to work to Google it.
Noel Gourdin’s really made it now. For I heard The River on my local radio station recently, and of course Steve Harvey help blow it up in the first place — but not every city gets Steve Harvey.
But just about every black folk in the world — okay, others too — get to hear The Tom Joyner Morning Show. So I’m glad to see it happening. And I bet folks think Gourdin is D’Angelo singing, but Noel is his own man.
Okay, that’s it.
Except that I’m thinking of the spiritual signifigance of rivers right now.
Because my son’s name translates to mean river. So he calls himself River sometimes.
And Dora in the background is talking about a river.
And I just read a blog post talking about why rivers are important to black people.
I bet Noel Gourdin will always feel that way about his river…
Noel Gourdin Google Alerts are coming thru more often now, and I’m glad to see Noel Gourdin getting more mainstream press, like on SOHH and on AOL Black Voices.
Of course, the bloggers are still lovin’ Noel Gourdin too, and more and more blogs are picking up on the momentum catapulting “The River” into the public light.
I’m telling you Noel — I already see you singing “The River” on Oprah, ’specially since I’m a person big on writing down visions and watching the Author and Perfector bring them to pass…
Just imagine the fervent press Noel Gourdin’s gonna get after his After My Time CD drops…
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