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And they have been appropriated from and mimicked with great success since the explosion of recorded music in the 1940s.

The women of Shine Bright are not only the foundation of American pop, they remain the model. These are the women who set the stage for white female pop stars from Janis Joplin to Carly Simon to Madonna to Adele. Stacked with original interviews, photos and found imagery, and in-depth reporting, Shine Bright is the interconnected story of Aretha Franklin, Marian Anderson, Ella Fitzgerald, Gladys Knight, Mahalia Jackson, Tina Turner, Diana Ross & the Supremes, Natalie Cole, Marilyn McCoo, TLC, The Dixie Cups, Anita Baker, Salt-N-Pepa, Sade, Lauryn Hill, Destiny’s Child, as well as the transcendent triumvirate that is Janet Jackson, Mariah Carey and Whitney Houston.

The Soulful and Sequined Story of how Black Women Took over American Pop and Changed Culture Forever. Shortlisted for the Porchlight Business Book Award One of the Best Books of the Year: San Francisco Chronicle, NPR, The Root, Variety, Esquire, The Guardian, Pitchfork, She Reads, Publishers Weekly Her beloved second hometown is Brooklyn, but Danyel is a proud Oakland native now living in Southern California with her husband. She has written two novels - More Like Wrestling (Crown, 2003) and Bliss (Crown, 2005), and Danyel’s recent work appears in the New York Times Magazine, and at NPR. She was editor of Billboard, and the first woman and first black person to serve as editor-in-chief of VIBE.

Danyel’s CV includes being a producer and writer at ESPN, a Knight fellow at Stanford University and an arts fellow at Northwestern’s Medill School of Journalism. She has interviewed everyone from Whitney Houston to Janet Jackson to Simone Biles to Beyoncé. Danyel’s career has been laser-focused on black creatives making brilliant things. Shine Bright: A Personal History of Black Women in Pop (One World, 2021)ĭanyel Smith is an award-winning journalist and the host of Black Girl Songbook, a music talk show that centers the sounds and stories of black women (The Ringer/Spotify).