![]() ![]() "DJ AJ, Grandmaster Flash, Afrika Bambaataa, Kool Herc - all of these guys were local DJs who would do local shows here in New York," Bronx rapper Kurtis Blow says. And none of them had ever been a DJ or an MC. The Sugarhill Gang was also criticized because two of its members were from New Jersey. Like a lot of hip-hop culture, "Rapper's Delight" created its share of controversy - starting with the fact that its playful groove did not reflect the urban anger of other rap at the time. We were always bragging about stuff we didn't have to impress the chicks." What I wanted to portray was three guys having fun. It wasn't 'bash the police' - that was years after that. "It wasn't the message that was years later. "So what hip-hop fashioned," he says, "was a conduit whereby people who normally are locked out of telling get to tell."īut perhaps the reason "Rapper's Delight" crossed over was that it was anything but political. It gave them a way of making their voices heard. Harry Allen, from The Village Voice and Vibe magazine, says that, until then, rap had been for young black males with few opportunities. It was 15 minutes long, and yet black radio started playing it - so much so that Sugarhill Gang recorded a seven-minute version for pop stations and introduced the black neighborhood sound of the 1970s to white listeners. The "Rapper's Delight" 12-inch was released in September 1979. ![]() "MC Delight," performed by Grandmaster Caz "Love Is Strange," by Mickey & Sylvia (from Dirty Dancing) She is survived by her father, Bill Owens of San Clemente mother, Wendy Owens of Oceanside brother Bill and family of Saipan sister Sara Madani and family of Santa Ana, her teenage sons, Max and Sam and her husband of 20 years, Zack."Rapper's Delight," performed by the Sugarhill Gang Her diagnosis of pancreatic cancer came without warning during a family trip to Italy. She took delight in literature, especially Spanish language fiction, languages, slapstick comedy, baseball, soul and disco music, beaches, travel, family and friendships. In 2015 Lisa founded her own consulting firm to advise a range of government and private sector clients.ĭavis was a runner, yoga practitioner, stand-up paddler and hiker. to support innovative inter-agency interdiction efforts, where she earned high praise for building bridges between diplomatic, military, intelligence and technical agencies. Lisa and Zack returned to California to work at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory’s Z Division, where Lisa quickly rose through the ranks to manage a wide range of analytic and operational intelligence support programs across the Lab. representative to the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty for the 25-year NPT Review Conference. In 1995 she moved to the State Department and served as chief of staff to Ambassador Norm Wulf, the U.S. While at DOE she met her future husband, Zachary Davis, who was representing the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency. ![]() She went on to serve in the Department of Defense and the Department of Energy (DOE), where she accepted a position managing nuclear safeguards support to the International Atomic Energy Agency. Embassy in Vienna to work on nuclear safeguards policy. She was an intern at the International Atomic Energy Agency and later returned to the U.S. She taught English in the Czech Republic soon after the fall of the Berlin Wall and traveled extensively throughout Eastern Europe and Russia.ĭavis pursued her master’s degree at the Monterey Institute of International Studies and was a graduate of the Center for Nonproliferation Studies. She lived in Spain and worked at the Spanish consulate in Los Angeles, which sparked her interest in diplomacy. She graduated from the University of California, Santa Barbara with a degree in Spanish literature. She was 53.ĭavis was born in 1966 in Santa Barbara, California. Nuclear, Chemical and Isotopic Science and Technology.Lasers and Optical Science and Technology. ![]()
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