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People Get Ready<\/em> came together in the most unexpected, almost fated way. At the end of a tour in Aix-en-Provence, the club owner introduced me to Seydou Barry of JazzBook Records<\/em>. I had no expectations, but the moment we met he said, \u201cI have work for you,\u201d even though he didn\u2019t know me. The project had been waiting years for a singer and he believed I was the one. Weeks later, he called to say I would record in February. We eventually recorded the vocals in Pittsburgh with John Shannon, my musical director and co-producer. We finished in two days. I was nervous because these were powerful songs \u2014 by Curtis Mayfield, Bob Dylan, U2, The Animals and more \u2014 songs of protest, hope, choices and war. I prayed I could bring new life to them. Now, looking back, I\u2019m grateful for that chance meeting. I love how the project turned out and it truly feels like it was meant to be.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.indulgexpress.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" People Get Ready came together in the most unexpected, almost fated way. At the end of a tour in Aix-en-Provence, the club owner introduced me to Seydou Barry of JazzBook Records. I had no expectations, but the moment we met he said, \u201cI have work for you,\u201d even though he didn\u2019t know me. The project […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2169918,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25179],"tags":[416829,416823,416825,416824,416832,416830,416833,416827,343680,416831,416826,416828,387657],"class_list":["post-2169917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music","tag-classic-jazz","tag-denise-king","tag-denise-king-bengaluru","tag-denise-king-interview","tag-denise-king-profile","tag-jazz-activism","tag-jazz-and-protest-songs","tag-jazz-concert-bengaluru","tag-jazz-singer","tag-jazz-tour-india","tag-people-get-ready-album","tag-socially-conscious-music","tag-soul-music"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Denise-King-brings-soul-and-storytelling-to-Bengaluru-with-new.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2169917","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2169917"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2169917\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2169919,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2169917\/revisions\/2169919"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2169918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2169917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2169917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2169917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}