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Shaw got his first R&B group together in the early '80s. T'spoon grooved all over Tulsa from 1981 to 1984 and recorded a local hit single, "Sweetness." ("We were going to send it to Walter Peyton, but we never did," Shaw said of the nicknamed NFL star.) Before calling it quits, T'spoon toured with soul legend Carla Thomas, opened shows for the S.O.S. Band and Tulsa's own GAP Band -- then at its popularity height -- and was declared in a Tulsa World poll as the city's most promising new band.
Before forming the popular jazz-R&B band Legend last year, Shaw kept busy fronting a band in Atlanta, producing his son's hip-hop group, 74110, and writing songs. Pepsi used one his songs for its "New Generation" ad campaign, and he scored a documentary about the 1921 Tulsa race riots called "Little Africa on Fire."
"Good as Gold" has been years in the making, and Shaw said he has higher hopes for this album than any of his work thus far. The video for "So Proud of You," filmed locally by Davis Ward of Lauer Cinematography, will be submitted to MTV and BET for consideration. Songs from the album already have garnered local airplay; "One More Time" was featured on KJMM 105.3-FM's "Make It or Break It" contest and received the highest number of "Make It!" votes from listeners in the history of the weekly contest.
"I still consider myself a new artist," he said. "I've got to stay humble like that so I don't get too laid-back and think I've arrived ... I'm having fun now, too. When I started out, I was like, `Oh, I've got to get that record deal.' That takes all the fun out of it. I've got a new attitude."
He's clearly having fun on the new video, despite the nervousness that preceded filming. ("I spent a lot of time in front of the mirror, practicing," he said.) In addition to footage at Philbrook, the video includes scenes shot at Washington High School. Shaw graduated there, and his father, Hazell Shaw, taught stage craft there. The backup singers in the film are Shaw's sons in the group 74110.
- Tulsa World
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The Greatest Vocalist That You Will Ever Hear. Shaw got his first R&B group together in the early '80s. T'spoon grooved all over Tulsa from 1981 to 1984 and recorded a local hit single, "Sweetness." ("We were going to send it to Walter Peyton, but we never did," Shaw said of the nicknamed NFL star.) Before calling it quits, T'spoon toured with soul legend Carla Thomas, opened shows for the S.O.S. Band and Tulsa's own GAP Band -- then at its popularity height -- and was declared in a Tulsa World poll as the city's most promising new band.
Before forming the popular jazz-R&B band Legend last year, Shaw kept busy fronting a band in Atlanta, producing his son's hip-hop group, 74110, and writing songs. Pepsi used one his songs for its "New Generation" ad campaign, and he scored a documentary about the 1921 Tulsa race riots called "Little Africa on Fire."
"Good as Gold" has been years in the making, and Shaw said he has higher hopes for this album than any of his work thus far. The video for "So Proud of You," filmed locally by Davis Ward of Lauer Cinematography, will be submitted to MTV and BET for consideration. Songs from the album already have garnered local airplay; "One More Time" was featured on KJMM 105.3-FM's "Make It or Break It" contest and received the highest number of "Make It!" votes from listeners in the history of the weekly contest.
"I still consider myself a new artist," he said. "I've got to stay humble like that so I don't get too laid-back and think I've arrived ... I'm having fun now, too. When I started out, I was like, `Oh, I've got to get that record deal.' That takes all the fun out of it. I've got a new attitude."
He's clearly having fun on the new video, despite the nervousness that preceded filming. ("I spent a lot of time in front of the mirror, practicing," he said.) In addition to footage at Philbrook, the video includes scenes shot at Washington High School. Shaw graduated there, and his father, Hazell Shaw, taught stage craft there. The backup singers in the film are Shaw's sons in the group 74110.
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