Red Hot + Blue with Meshell Ndegeocello

Switched on Pop

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Music Interviews, Music History, Music, Music Commentary

4.6 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 1 December 2020

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

In 1990 John Carlin and Leigh Blake pioneered a new kind of charity album. Together they co-founded Red Hot, a non-profit music label that uses music to raise money and awareness to for the fight against AIDS. This year is the 30th anniversary of their record: Red Hot + Blue, a platinum tribute album to Cole Porter, featuring artists like U2, Jody Watley, David Byrne, k.d. lang and Annie Lennox. Having released 20 projects and raised over $15M for AIDS charities, Carlin reflects back on Red Hot's idiosyncratic approach to reaching music audiences with a public health mission. And ten time Grammy nominee Red Hot collaborator Meshell Ndegeocello discusses how her contributions informed her own prolific music activism. More Listen to Red Hot's records at redhot.org Listen to Meshell's Chapter & Verse by calling 1-833-4-BALDWIN or visiting www.meshell.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello, you.
0:01.6	Listening to your favorite podcast again.
0:04.9	A little predicted beloved you, don't you think?
0:06.7	My latest heartbreak has been a catalyst that has brought me to London.
0:09.9	I spend my days as a professor and my nights with friends.
0:13.2	It's a generous way to describe them, but I have to stay close.
0:15.7	There's a killer out there picking them off,
0:18.7	all while trying to frame me.
0:20.5	I laugh at the irony if it weren't so serious.
0:23.0	Someone is watching me.
0:24.2	I can feel it.
0:25.3	Is it you?
0:26.4	You.
0:27.2	You.
0:27.8	Now streaming only on Netflix.
0:43.0	Welcome to Switched on Pop.
0:44.0	I'm songwriter Charlie Harding.
0:45.6	Nate is on paternity leave.
0:47.3	Today, December 1 is World AIDS Day.
0:49.7	So I'm bringing you a story about a non-profit record company
0:53.2	that has helped to fight a pandemic.
0:55.2	The power of music in an activist context is that it preaches to the unconverted.
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