Is It Because I’m Black? by Syl Johnson
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About the album Is It Because I’m Black?
Syl Johnson was born in Mississippi in 1936, so he felt racial racism firsthand from an early age. It's no coincidence, then, the title of his second album in 1970, Is It Because I’m Black?, an excellent example of soul music and songs with social and political content.
The title track was released as a single a few months before the album's release and was inspired by the assassination of Martin Luther King.
It should be noted that it is considered the first black concept album in history, one year before Marvin Gaye's What's Going On!
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