Stokley Williams of Mint Condition on Solo Project Sankofa and Being a Sonic Healer
The Tight Rope
SpkerBox Media
5 • 605 Ratings
🗓️ 10 June 2021
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
This week on The Tight Rope, Stokley Williams opens up about founding Mint Condition, his new solo project Sankofa, and why he considers himself a sonic healer. Tune in to learn Stokley’s favorite songs of his career and the influences that helped him develop his signature style.
Stokley is a GRAMMY-nominated vocalist, songwriter, producer, and multi-instrumentalist who is one of music’s best-kept secrets. He has worked with some of the biggest names in music including Prince, Whitney Houston, Janet Jackson and more. He’s known best as the lead singer and drummer for legendary R&B group Mint Condition.
In 2017, Stokley embarked on a new solo journey with the release of his debut album Introducing Stokley, which produced two #1 singles, “Organic” and “Levels.” He now continues that journey in a new partnership with the legendary Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis’ Perspective Records. Stokley’s new single “She” is off his sophomore album due out this winter.
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| 0:00.0 | What's up y'all? I'm Stoke and I'm on the tightrope with Tricia Rose and Cornel West. |
| 0:12.5 | There was one point where I wasn't sure what I was doing was of any importance. |
| 0:19.0 | We had, it might have been like 1999 and, you know, we were just in the middle of a deal kind of thing. And I was like, wow, do I want to switch gears? What am I looking at that? I'm only doing music. It's like, it's not, I'm not curing cancer or anything like that. And I think at Ramos, a little bit after that, we started getting mail. |
| 0:39.7 | And people were talking about, you know, speaking of cancer, |
| 0:41.9 | there was somebody who was on the deathbed, basically, saying, |
| 0:44.3 | listen to your music. |
| 0:46.3 | And you may not believe this, but we, you brought us through this. |
| 0:51.8 | And we believe that this is healed. |
| 0:53.5 | I heard several stories after that like that. |
| 0:55.8 | And then I shifted. |
| 0:58.1 | And I was like, I am a healer. |
| 1:01.6 | You are. |
| 1:02.6 | I'm a sonic healer. |
| 1:04.3 | And that's why I started kind of, you know, I'm a, |
| 1:07.0 | and so I started going by that kind of little moniker, a little nickname. |
| 1:09.7 | But that totally changed my perspective. |
| 1:12.6 | I'm like, no, man, you got it all wrong. |
| 1:14.1 | This is not, nothing to play with. |
| 1:16.4 | Yes, you can, it can be used as for, for devilish ways, depending, or it could be used to heal and bring people through something. |
| 1:24.3 | You know, so. |
| 1:25.4 | Well, the vibrations, the scientists are learning that electromagnetic vibrations |
| 1:30.9 | and frequencies do heal and harm, right? |
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