Speaker 1: On today's episode. If I didn't know, maybe you didn't either.
Speaker 1: A moment of ignorance transparency. I didn't know. I didn't know.
Speaker 1: I didn't know. I didn't know. I didn't all right,
Speaker 1: So digg it. When I think of Nashville, Tennessee, I
Speaker 1: think of country music period, Dolly Parton, Kenny Chesney, Luke Combs,
Speaker 1: Laney Wilson. H sidebar. How come nobody told me about
Speaker 1: Landy Wilson? How come nobody told me the country music
Speaker 1: had that very home? Megan the Stallion her middle name
Speaker 1: d Nay, and I hear she's on a television show
Speaker 1: that I'm gonna have to binge watch. But let me
Speaker 1: get back to the episode before dr Umar d ms me.
Speaker 1: But again, I think country music when I think Nashville, Tennessee.
Speaker 1: I know they call it music City, And even if
Speaker 1: you google music City, Nashville, Tennessee pops up and talk
Speaker 1: about the seventeen Huntreds when they had David Crockett out
Speaker 1: there in the streets. Now, when I think of anything
Speaker 1: black in Nashville, Tennessee, I can't help but call it
Speaker 1: Cashville tenner Key, because that was young Buck used to
Speaker 1: call it when he were rapping with g Unit and
Speaker 1: I think of my player partner, DJ Coope, phenomenal DJ
Speaker 1: in Tennessee. I think there my only two references, but
Speaker 1: dig this. In eighteen sixty six, Nashville, Tennessee, was blessed
Speaker 1: with Fisk University, Yes and HBCU, and formed at Fisk
Speaker 1: University were the Fisk Jubilee Singers. They sing akapolco no
Speaker 1: musical accompaniments, and in eighteen seventy one they introduced the
Speaker 1: world to slave songs. Today we call those Negro spirituals.
Speaker 1: It was November sixteenth, eighteen seventy one, and the fifth
Speaker 1: Jubilee Singers went to Oberlin College in Ohio. They performed
Speaker 1: before a national convention of ministers. It was at that
Speaker 1: event they sang spirituals and other songs that were associated
Speaker 1: with slavery. It was one of the first public performances
Speaker 1: of the secret music that African Americans sang in the
Speaker 1: fields and behind closed doors for generations. It was powerful.
Speaker 1: In eighteen seventy three, the Fisk Jubilee Singers now had
Speaker 1: eleven members, all of them but two were former slaves.
Speaker 1: They went on a tour in Europe, and while they
Speaker 1: were in Great Britain. They performed before Queen Victoria and
Speaker 1: Prime Minister William Gladstone, and there the name was given.
Speaker 1: Queen Victoria said, the Fisk Jubilee singers must come from
Speaker 1: a city of music, and in that moment, Nashville, Tennessee
Speaker 1: got the name music City. I had no clue. Music
Speaker 1: City ain't because of Kenny Chasney and Dolly Parton and
Speaker 1: Dump Truck Lanny Wilson. No, No, it was those eleven
Speaker 1: black Fisk Jubilee singers. They set the bar and that
Speaker 1: led to folks like Jimmy Hendrix, Ohis Red and Little
Speaker 1: Richard Etta James coming to Nashville, Tennessee and tearing Jefferson
Speaker 1: Street up, and y'all. To this day, the Fisk Jubilee
Speaker 1: singer still travel around the world reminding people and introducing
Speaker 1: to others those secret songs that we were singing in
Speaker 1: the fields during those enslaved periods. Now take that the
Speaker 1: school of work with you. Because I didn't know, maybe
Speaker 1: you didn't either.