Amazon Music’s Black History Month celebrations include a new weekly Twitch series, playlists, podcasts and two Amazon Original songs.
Beginning Friday at 2pm PT/5pm ET on the Amazon Music Twitch channel,
Wayno will engage in conversations with performers who've redefined Black artistry.
Amazon Music’s Black History Month content will also include the
Invisible Blackness podcast from
Adrian Younge, which will document the development and evolution of racism in America. It starts Thursday.
Tuesday’s edition of
Rolling Stone’s
500 Greatest Albums podcast will focus on the legacy of
Marvin Gaye’s
What’s Going On, featuring
archival interviews with Gaye and new interviews with Marvin’s sister
Zeola Gaye,
Aaron Neville,
Smokey Robinson and Gaye biographer
David Ritz.
Amazon Music’s global catalog brand,
[RE]DISCOVER, will unveil a new series of playlists every Tuesday in February. Among the artists featured will be
Sam Cooke,
Sly & the Family Stone and
Janet Jackson.
Debuting on Friday, new playlist
PRSM will focus on artists bending genres and defying expectations like
Thundercat,
Sault and
Arlo Parks.
Mickey Guyton will cover
Beyoncé’s “If I Were a Boy” for Amazon Original songs, and
Blxst will release a new track for the series as well.
“The stories and sounds across America's Black music landscape have contributed heavily to American culture and directly inform today's popular music, from hip-hop to dance, pop and more,” said
Rochelle Balogun, Senior Music Curator at Amazon Music. “This February, we’re excited to showcase a range of incredible creators from whom our Amazon Music customers may learn more about the enduring influence of Black music.”
