Heather Headley - "The Past Is Another Land"

In honor of Black History Month all the posts for this month will feature black artists and/or artists of color.

I’m a bit late this year, as I’m just jumping back on the bandwagon for writing these posts. So I hope you’ll forgive the missed first couple of days in February, as I was still getting my bearings. Moving forward all posts in February will be from Artists of Color

Heather Headley is a force of nature, and her voice an instrument of the divine.  She is a Trinidadian-American singer, songwriter, record producer, and actress. She won the 2000 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical for the titular role of Aida. She also won the 2010 Grammy Award for Best Contemporary R&B Gospel Album for her album Audience of One. In 2018, she recurred as Gwen Garrett on the NBC medical drama television series Chicago Med.

She’s the kind of actress who comes along once in a generation. Her beauty and talent are only rivaled by her passion. After winning Tony’s and Grammy’s she still donates time to charities and non-profits. She’s the kind of inspiration we need more of in this world.

Her heartache as she sings this incredible song is so palpable that you can taste the tears running down her face. It is a performance that will go down in history.

So today, tearing my eyes away from the path I’ve already walked, I choose Heather Headley’s “The Past Is Another Land” as my, hold on to the knowledge, let go of the pain, remember the joy, song for a, look to the horizon, with open hands to receive the new, eyes full of tears of wonder, Thursday.