Jill Scott gives power to her music and lyrics
CHICAGO • Before she was a renowned R&B singer, Jill Scott was working the boisterous poetry circuit in Philadelphia. So when she gave a spoken-word performance in May at the White House, she was going back to her roots — albeit in front of a slightly more intimidating audience, including President Barack Obama.
Scott met the occasion head-on, smiling and acknowledging a hint of nervousness, yet punching hard. Among her three readings was "Womanifesto," a bold declaration of "don't-box-me-in" feminine empowerment that she toned down only slightly. As she said by way of conclusion, she was "indeed the shiznit."
The piece, also a centerpiece of her latest album, "The Light of the Sun," is a humorous and pointed response to those who would reduce women to mere physical specimens to be ogled, seduced and discarded.
"A woman is more than the sum of her parts," Scott says with a laugh. "So I had an opportunity to present some work at the White House, I chose not just to talk about the sky, the planet, love or heartache. I wanted to actually be there, to place a mark on that moment."
And how. "Womanifesto" was easily the most irreverent piece presented at "An Evening of Poetry at the White House."
"I've been reading poetry publicly for 20 years, and this is what you do — you express, you sometimes dig a bit to get a conversation started," Scott says. "That's the point of poetry. You're supposed to go, 'Hmmmm,' and 'Woooh!' The first lady has come to see me perform, so she knows my scene."
Scott, who plays Verizon Wireless Amphitheater on Thursday as a headliner for Budweiser Superfest, brings the same message to her music. Over four albums, she's blown out the boundaries of the so-called neo-soul movement that she helped build.
A powerful singer and a skilled lyricist with a gift for vivid imagery, she makes her every gesture feel conversational, intimate, off-the-cuff.
"The Light of the Sun" was recorded after a tumultuous period in Scott's personal life, when she went through a divorce, gave birth to a child, broke up with the father and switched record labels. That turmoil doesn't defeat her; instead, the overriding impression left by the new album is one of resilience, of rising above.
"This album renewed my sense of what music is supposed to feel like for me," she says. "It's not a job, it's not a chore. Sometimes I felt as a writer I was purging, and it almost hurt to purge to that level.
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