Bambi haggen biography of michael

A SPECIAL BRAND OF SMOOTH FUNK

Born February 12th in Pasadena California, Michael Haggins began his musical journey at the tender age of eight-years-old. He studied music while attending Cal-State-University Long Beach and for more than 10 years he worked as a Video Editor for CBS Television Network in Hollywood California. He also spent his evenings performing in jazz clubs.

Today Michael is a full-time performing and recording artist. He gained musical inspiration from his uncle Al Duncan, a first call session drummer for the Stax, Vee-Jay, and Chess record labels in Chicago in the ’s and 's. Al was later supplanted by Maurice White the co-founder of Earth Wind & Fire.

This began as an article on the fall of a Black comedy icon. After watching the Dateline interview with 27 of the 55 women who have accused Bill Cosby of being a sexual predator, on the same day that the year-old comedian was forced to answer questions about an alleged attack at the Playboy Mansion, I had to question why I feel so personally angered and injured by this history of despicable actions.

As a Black Post-Boomer, Pre-Xer, eight-track tapes of Bill Cosby’s comedy provided my nap soundtracks. I grew up on The Electric Company and Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids, and, later, on The Cosby Show. As a working class kid, I was weaned on the uplift-tinged stories of “you can’t be as good, you have to be better to get half as far.” In other words, although my folks were not in the same socio-economic zip code as the Huxtables, they were in the same ideological region.

As a middle-aged media scholar, I see 20th-century televisual iterations of Cosby as the poster boys of (Black) American exemplarism—whether as the integrationist Super Negro spy, Alexander Scott in I