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Black Ink
April 19,1984
Savoir-Faire — sheer sophistication
Seniors Annette Parker from Dur
ham, and Rose Williams from Clinton,
second year med student Curtis Sut
ton from Kinston, and fourth year
dental student Phillip Woods from
Burlington are the members of the vo
cal jazz group Savior Faire.
Not only are these four people uni
que as a group, but there is also uni
queness within the group. Each mem
ber sings solos as well as duets, trios,
and quartets when the group per
forms.
But where did this group of talent
ed students come from? Well, as Sut
ton tells it, “Phillip and I had sung at a
lot of block shows and talent shows.
Then when we met Annette and Rose,
we decided to get a group together.
Our first talent show as a group was
the Medical Education Development
Talent Show last summer. We had all
been in talent shows before, but this
was the first time we were together as
a group."
Ever since that first talent show,
Savoir Faire has had several other en-
by Rhonda Hubbard
gagements such as entertainment for
fashions shows, formal dances, judg
ing at talent shows, doing night club
acts, and the list goes on.
“The first time we were paid for our
singing was at Slug's," said Sutton.
“We (the four members) went to talk
to a woman at Slug's. We knew that
we had a different type of entertain
ment, so we auditioned. She liked us,
so we took the job."
But then came the question of a
name. What would they call them
selves?
"I remember that I really liked
Savior Faire. At first they (the other
members) didn't like it, but it fit our
style of music — we were mainly sing
ing jazz at the time, and then they
began to like it," explains Sutton.
But working at Slug's was not as
glorious as one might think it should
have been. Not many people knew
about Savior Faire, and those who did,
did not go to Slug's that often due to
the cover charge. So the group began
distributing flyers to inform people.
Rockwell,macho Michael Jackson
who is Rockwell?
Rockwell is one of the hottest sell
ing recording artists in the world to
day hlis album and single, titled
“Sombody's Watching Me", are both
destined for #1 on the music in
dustries best selling charts.
Rockwell terms his music 'rhythm
wave' which encompasses many cur
rent music formats including Pop,
Rhythm and Blues, and Rock. His
songs are a product of an artist whose
personal life remains very private.
He is 20 years old, 5'9', and weighs
159 lbs USA Today refers to him as a
"macho Michael Jackson and a
sophisticated Prince!"
His world popularity is no surprise
since his 'rhythm wave' music spans
over at least three continents.
Rockwell's favorite pastimes in
clude music, sports, girls, health
foods and privacy
In addition to working on a movie
to be released in early 1985, he is
presently preparing for a world wide
tour.
When asked to what he attributes
his enormous success, he shyly
replies, "1 guess I was just in the right
place at the right time...And of
course, having wonderful buddies
like Michael Jackson never hurts."
Because Rockwell is a mulit-
talented artist who writes, produces,
directs and performs his own music,
many people refer to him as "the little
genius who know exactly what he
wants."
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They got good crowds, but not many
blacks went there, explained Sutton.
The first real exposure that the
group had was at their first concert at
Great Hall. Sutton explains that “the
Union show was handled real well. It
was free, which helped. That was the
first time we had a crowd that large,
except at talent shows."
The night club atmosphere of that
concert only enhanced the pefor-
mance. All dressed in concert black,
the members of Savior Faire sang a
variety of music ranging from popular
songs on the soul charts to classic
Broadway ballads.
Parker comments, “I know we have
potential, so 1 hope we go far."
But for now, all there is is hope.
Woods will be going to dental
graduate school in Boston, and Parker
and Williams are job hunting. So fu
ture plans for the group are still up in
the air.
“We want to keep in touch, but
we'll have to see how things go," says
Sutton.
Unfortunately, the group's biggest
problem is contacts. But their general
opinion about that is to be patient.
After all, a group like Savior Faire can
not go unnoticed forever.
The four members run on extreme
ly tight schedules, although they ac
cept a few engagements and do an ex
ceptional job, they only rehearse a
couple of nights before they perform
— that is talent.
Being the only vocal jazz group on
campus, Savior Faire has set a stan
dard for others to follow. And what an
act they are to have to follow!!
*NOTE: Annette Parker, Rose
Williams and Phillip Woods were not
available for the interview.
KKK Alive in the South
By Kevin E. Washington
The Ku Klux Klan, an organization
which began in 1865 as a social or
ganization and turned into a terorist
group, is once again becoming an im
portant force in the movement to
challenge black economic, social
and political progress in this country.
The Klan, which has a chapter in
22 states in the country, is extremely
active in North Carolina.
Although the Klan problem is
growing, a number of organizations
are trying to keep track of their acti
vities. One of thes organizations is
North Carolinians Against Racist and
Religious Violence in Durham, N.C.
Leah Wise of NCARRV spoke with
Black Ink about the resurgence of
the Klan and NCARRV's plans to deal
with the Klan problems.
After the Klan first emerged, it
died out about five years later and
had a resurgence in the 1920s, the
Klan has existed as a number of se
parate organizations using the name
Ku Klux Klan.
In some North Carolinians minds
there may be confusion over who the
Klan really is.
The Klan-Nazis trials in Winston-
Salem have been a forum for the two
terrorist groups to present them
selves as patriotic Americans who
are Communist Freedom Fighters,
Wise said.
"People, especially black people
in this area, historically understand
what the Klan is," she said, "The
whole argument in (the Klan-Nazis
trial) has been the thrust that this is
not the Klan that is against black
people, Jews and Catholics, but
rather they are against Communists."
"Most of the victims have been
members of interracial couples,
blacks or people who have been poli
tically active or outspoken," Wise
said
Wise said the Klan of today has
grown for several different reasons.
"One has to do with the lack of
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