Wanda Robinson

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A Possibility (Back Home) 00:00 Tools
Instant Replay 02:49 Tools
A Possibility 02:33 Tools
Tragedy No. 456 05:24 Tools
Parting Is Such 02:54 Tools
The Meeting Place 06:04 Tools
John Harvey's Blues 03:10 Tools
The Final Hour 03:18 Tools
Grooving 02:28 Tools
The Trouble With Dreams 02:23 Tools
Good Things Come 03:58 Tools
Because They Envy Us 07:13 Tools
A Possibility [Back Home] 02:33 Tools
My father is dying 03:23 Tools
A Black Oriented Love Poem / The First Time I Saw Loneliness 05:15 Tools
Nobody In His Right Mind 02:23 Tools
Carnal Was The Word 02:25 Tools
Paranoia 04:58 Tools
Celebration / Compromise / Read Street Festival / A Word To The Wise / The Great American Pastime 05:31 Tools
The Un-hero 03:56 Tools
Instant Replay (Original Mix) 02:46 Tools
Instant Replay ['Criminology'] 02:46 Tools
Possibility (Back Home) 02:33 Tools
Odyssey / The Feelin' 07:29 Tools
Instant Reply 00:00 Tools
Celebration, Compromise, Read St. Festival, A Word To The Wise, The Great American Past Time 05:31 Tools
Odyssey - The Feelin' 07:26 Tools
A Black Oriented Love Poem 05:16 Tools
A Black Oriented Love Poem, The First Time I Saw Loneliness 05:15 Tools
Celebration Compromise Read 05:32 Tools
A Black Oriented Love Poem/The First Time I Saw Loneliness 05:18 Tools
Odyssey the Feelin' 07:29 Tools
The Final Hour (Duktus Remix) 07:29 Tools
04 - Tragedy No. 456 6.04 07:29 Tools
Odyssey The Feelin' 07:29 Tools
A Possibility (Back Home) (from Me and a Friend) 00:00 Tools
Celebration/Compromise/Read Street Festival/A Word to the Wise/The Great American Pastime 00:00 Tools
07 - A Black Oriented Love Poem/The First Time I Saw Lonliness 00:00 Tools
A Possibility (Back Home Again In Indiana) 00:00 Tools
04 - Because They Envy Us 00:00 Tools
Odyssey/The Feelin' 00:00 Tools
01 - A Possibility (Back Home Again in Indiana) 00:00 Tools
09 - Celebration/Compromise/Read Street Festival/A Word to the Wise/The Grea 00:00 Tools
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Laini Mataka aka Wanda Robinson Born and raised in Baltimore, she remains a local educator to young local poets in the Washington DC area. Wanda Robinson recorded two spoken-word albums: 1971 - Black Ivory (made Billboard`s Black Album chart, reaching #29) 1973 - Me and a Friend (put together from tracks she’d recorded for Black Ivory - Wanda had nothing to do with the release of this work, she had left the music business prior to it's release) Both were released by the label - Perception Records Both feature Wanda reading her work over Jazz-R&B Her work could be viewed as an important precursor to hip-hop. In 1972, fed up with being paid very little for her work, she shaved her head, changed her name to Laini Mataka and left the music business. As Laini Mataka, she has several books of her poetry published 1988 - Never as Strangers 1994 - Restoring the Queen 2000 - Bein a Strong Black Woman Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.