![]() ![]() “You can be technically right but soulfully wrong.” Those are the kinds of performers and singers I love,” she said. ![]() She’s an open book when it comes to her past traumas and her present feelings, a quality she admires in the women she will cover on Friday. When she isn’t traveling the country to share her songs and stories, Richardson teaches literacy studies at Ohio State University. Richardson, 58, is an accomplished artist in her own right, having written a memoir, a one-woman show and an album based on her leap from addiction and abuse to education and accomplishment. On Friday at Copious/Notes, Richardson, along with Adria Shahid, will highlight black female songstresses, some decided divas (Diana Ross, Chaka Khan) and others content to let the singing do the talking (Sarah Vaughan, Big Mama Thornton). “It just means you’re doing your thing,” said the singer and songwriter, who performs under the name Dr. The idea of diva has been turned into an image of high-maintenance musicians, but Elaine Richardson begs to differ. ![]()
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