About TL Cross
The inextricability of music, spirituality and Black culture is something that award-winning singer-songwriter producer veteran TL Cross recognized early in his life growing up in the Jamaica section of Queens, New York. The historical communities served as hubs for jazz musicians like Count Basie, Ella Fitzgerald, and John Coltrane and later became an incubator of the burgeoning hip-hop scene of the 1980s which produced the legendary likes of LL Cool J, Salt-N-Pepa and later, A Tribe Called Quest. There is tremendous evidence of this explanation in Cross’ own body of work which spans almost a quarter of a century. Cross exudes the confidence to approach his own art with a methodology that most always demonstrates the breadth of Black American music creating thoroughly conceived odes, nods, and nuances juxtaposed with the continuum of modernism that his progenitors fought for.
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