E41  Estelle: Becoming the Love of Your Life.

E41 Estelle: Becoming the Love of Your Life.

Today’s episode is with Estelle; a Grammy-award winning singer, song writer, and record producer. A woman clearly comfortable with who she is, how she loves, and the boundaries she erects to express said love, Estelle has opened the sun-lit window of her lyrical world for the Institute of Black Imagination… on today. And the church said amen.

Through storytelling and poignant advice-laden gems, Estelle shares the value of being prepared, why you must stay in your craft, and how the industry has changed since she first started over 20 years ago. This conversation is not all business though- Estelle shares her definition of love with me and who to go to for advice when your friends and family can’t help you anymore

A playlist Inspired by Estelle’s journey and this conversation

Mi Deyah Again- Beres Hammond

Better-Estelle

American Boy-Estelle featuring Kanye West

Stomp-Kirk Franklin

Right Here (Human Nature Radio Mix)-SWV

Don’t Leave Me- Blackstreet

Roc Boys- Jay-Z

You Bring Me Joy-Anita Baker

It Don’t Mean a Thing if You Aint Got That Swing- Ella Fitzgerald

A Night in Tunisia (live)- Dizzy Gillespie

 

Books that Estelle gifts the most

 

Will Smith’s Memoir “Will”

The Seven Levels of Intimacy: The art of loving and being loved by Matthew Kelly

 

This conversation was recorded on March 3, 2022

 

Host Dario Calmese

Producer Carmen D. Harris

Visual Art Direction and Designs:

River Wildmen, AfroVisualism

Original Music composed by Dario Calmese

Visit us at blackimagination.com

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