-Introduce Yourself:
My name is Saidah Baba Talibah — Saidah means happy and fortunate, Baba means born on Thursday, and Talibah means seeker after knowledge.
-Who are some of your influences?
My biggest influences are my mother, Salome Bey and father, Howard Matthews. They provided me with a playground of music to choose from — rock, funk, jazz, blues, folk, pop, soul, etc; Wall to wall records and great support, not to mention, my mother’s a pretty bad ass singer her damn self.
-How did you get your start in music?
Well, as I said, my mother’s a pretty bad ass singer, so I had the pleasure of getting my start from the womb or as my mother would say ‘as soon as she could talk, she was singing.’
-How would you describe your sound to someone who has never heard your music before?
I’d say it was raunchy soul. I think raunch gives the essence of dirt, grit, edge, raw, so raunchy soul it is.
-Do you have any music available for purchase & if so, where can everyone go to buy it?
Of course! You can buy it on iTunes, Amazon or anywhere else digitally or from my website at: www.sbtmusic.com/store — you can even get posters and t-shirts too.
-Your video for “So Cool” was recently released on AOL Spinner. Can you tell us a bit about the video and what it was like to film?
Yes, yes it was. Ooooh, well what do you want to know that isn’t already there? It’s a pretty sensual video. The song is about being in a relationship where things aren’t so cool and one has to use other means to get intimate — be it alcohol or in my case it was smoking a joint. I was in a bad place.
It was really great shooting it. Everyone on set was great — director, crew, my band, friends and family that came out to rock out with us. And rolling around on a bed with a hot guy, I couldn’t ask for more.
-Fav. song to perform?
Shit. Seriously? Uh, I’d say, No More.
-What is the most embarrassing thing that’s happened to you while performing?
One time I was singing with someone and forgot my words and instead of singing nonsense I didn’t say anything until I remembered…it was really embarrassing.
-Who is someone you would like to work with or play a show with in the future?
I have to give you a few, because I have simultaneous wishes going on. So I’d love to work with and play a show with: Lewis Taylor, Jamie Lidell, Feist, Corey Glover (Living Color), Bjork, Jack White, N*E*R*D, to name a few.
-Fav. band/artist of all time:
I seriously have a hard time just choosing one, but if I must, then, one of my favourites is: Fishbone (the original band) and one of my favourite artists is Minnie Riperton.
-What is something people may be surprised to find out about you?
I think people might be surprised to find out that I can sometimes be very shy.
-What is 1 thing you’d really like to see or do in your lifetime?
I’d love to travel the world (that’s a do and see) — especially India, Africa and South America, but travelling the entire world will do for me just fine.
-Fav. movie?
I’m pluralizing this question. Listen, you can’t ask a Libra to choose just one! So: Xanadu, Tank Girl, Hitch, Love Actually.
-What was your fav. cartoon or tv show while growing up?
I loved Sesame Street, Greatest American Hero, Cosby Show, A Different World, Growing Pains, Family Ties, FAME!!!. Cartoons? Funny, I fell in love with collecting Black Panther comic books, but never really loved cartoons. I mean, I watched them, but I can tell you that I really hated the Roadrunner, I thought it was so unfair that the coyote always got the shit end of the stick.
-If you won the lottery, what is the first thing you would buy?
I’d buy a bigger home and get some help, so that my parents could live with me, because unfortunately, I can’t care for the both of them, as my mother has dementia and my father has aphasia.
-Best advice you’ve ever been given:
Do you.
-Any last words/message to your fans?
peace, love & butterflies.
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