{"id":512,"date":"1998-11-01T13:08:10","date_gmt":"1998-11-01T19:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mnmusichalloffame.org\/?p=512"},"modified":"2026-01-29T06:12:35","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T12:12:35","slug":"sound-of-blackness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mnmusichalloffame.org\/sound-of-blackness\/","title":{"rendered":"Sound of Blackness"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"512\" class=\"elementor elementor-512\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-22d66b16 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"22d66b16\" data-element_type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-71d9f85e elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"71d9f85e\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The Sound of Blackness<\/p><p>Inducted 1998<\/p><p>Multiple Grammy Award Winning Artists Sounds of Blackness continues to be among the most influential messengers of hope and peace. Twin Cities-based Sounds of Blackness have created both national and international audiences while performing throughout the world. National events have included performing at the White House for President Clinton and guests. National Television appearances include The Grammys, The Tonight Show, The Today Show, Vibe, and Good Morning America. Sounds of Blackness have also performed internationally at The World Cup, The Olympic Games, and The World Figure Skating Championships. Sounds of Blackness have recorded over a dozen albums, many for major-label Perspective\/A&amp;M Records. The group has received or been nominated for several Grammy Awards, Soul Train Awards, Stellar Awards, Image Awards, and the International Time for Peace Awards.<\/p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.soundsofblackness.org\/\">Sounds of Blackness&#8217; website<\/a><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-70569f1 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"70569f1\" data-element_type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-85aff04 elementor-widget elementor-widget-video\" data-id=\"85aff04\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-settings=\"{&quot;youtube_url&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/youtu.be\\\/aLpwKuLDFik?si=SEiOKNrcwPyHnpKd&quot;,&quot;video_type&quot;:&quot;youtube&quot;,&quot;controls&quot;:&quot;yes&quot;}\" data-widget_type=\"video.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-wrapper elementor-open-inline\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-video\"><\/div>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Sound of Blackness Inducted 1998 Multiple Grammy Award Winning Artists Sounds of Blackness continues to be among the most influential messengers of hope and peace. Twin Cities-based Sounds of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1257,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,6],"tags":[179,65,68,57,45,182],"class_list":["post-512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-7","category-inductee","tag-179","tag-inductee","tag-minneapolis","tag-minnesota","tag-minnesota-music-hall-of-fame","tag-sounds-of-blackness"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mnmusichalloffame.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mnmusichalloffame.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mnmusichalloffame.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mnmusichalloffame.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mnmusichalloffame.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=512"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mnmusichalloffame.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2888,"href":"https:\/\/mnmusichalloffame.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512\/revisions\/2888"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mnmusichalloffame.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mnmusichalloffame.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mnmusichalloffame.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mnmusichalloffame.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}