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Best Peabo Bryson Songs: Afro-Optimism Anthems

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It was more than a simple love song. When Peabo Bryson unabashedly proclaimed “I feel like reaching for the sky/…I’m so inspired/I wanna reach a lil’ higher,” he was offering a message to Black America embedded, like many R&B songs of the time, in a tune about romance. “Reaching For The Sky,” Bryson’s 1977 debut major-label single, spoke to an age of audacious Black achievement. Set off by the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, it was an e…
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uDiscover Music broke the news in on Sunday, April 13, 2025.
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