rock Archives - DeafNiche https://deafniche.com/tag/rock/ Everything about the Deaf Community! Wed, 20 Nov 2019 04:27:14 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 https://deafniche.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/cropped-logo_gigantic_png-32x32.png rock Archives - DeafNiche https://deafniche.com/tag/rock/ 32 32 “Mother of Music in ASL” Passed Away-Remembering Shirley Childress https://deafniche.com/mother-music-asl-passed-away-remembering-shirley-childress/ https://deafniche.com/mother-music-asl-passed-away-remembering-shirley-childress/#comments Fri, 24 Mar 2017 01:25:09 +0000 http://deafniche.com/?p=9981 March 6, 2017-Shirley Childress passed away at the age of 69. Childress is best known for being the first black certified ASL interpreter and as one of the members in the band Sweet Honey in The Rock. Over the course of her career, she interpreted for famous people such as Maya Angelou (writer of I Know […]

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]]> https://deafniche.com/mother-music-asl-passed-away-remembering-shirley-childress/feed/ 2 Did you know that Savage Garden featured ASL in their music video “Crash and Burn” in 1999? https://deafniche.com/did-you-know-3/ Sat, 30 Apr 2016 11:36:15 +0000 http://blog.deafniche.com/?p=9045 Savage Garden, a popular music group from the late 1990s, made a music video about how technology was/is affecting communication and how we interact now after exposure to the internet. This song was written at the time when chat programs like MSN Chat and AIM were increasing in popularity and less people were talking to […]

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