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12 R&B SINGER AND MOGUL HOWARD HEWETT
17 MELBA MOORE, SINGER, ACTRESS AND BROADWAY STAR
HOWARD HEWETT
FROM THE EDITOR Dear Reader, It’s time to re-invent yourself! Another day is another chance to elevate your thinking for the better. Never before in history have you been at this point of your life. Time only moves forward and so will you. This is what YAHWEH MAGAZINE is all about: evolving in perfection. We have chosen to call our publication by this powerful name to represent the world’s evolution to perfection. There is a time and a season for everything. In this issue, we also invite every reader to take a stroll through the garden of the history of the Superstar Melba Moore. We also are up close with the one and only Howard Hewett. It’s time to unlock the unlimited power of your mind and use it to help others do the same. YAHWEH Magazine is a gift aimed towards the betterment of the quality of life for everyone who reads it. We anticipate that you accept this gift and share it in the manner in which it has been given to you. With the fullness of the power that holds this entire Universe together. The Power of LOVE. Daniel Yahweh
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“Nothing is too beautiful, nothing is too expensive.” -Ettore Bugatti
EXPLORE BUGATTI Acquired in 1998 by Volkswagen Corporation, the Bugatti has a long, bittersweet history. of birth, death and resurrection.
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Originally founded in 1909, Bugatti cars were known for their design elegance and their many race histories. Ettore Bugatti was from a family of artists. Famous Bugattis include the Type 35 Grand Prix cars, the Type 41 Royale and the Type 57 Atlantic. The death of Ettore’s son, Jean Bugatti while testing one of the models eliminated the production of Bugatti since there was no successor to lead the factory. In the 1990’s, an Italian entrepreneur revived it as a builder of limited production exclusive sports cars. Read more about Bugatti on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bugatti.
EXOTIC BEACHES By Missy Yost
MahaI’ula Beach, Hawaii This untouched beach is part of the Kekaha Kai State Park. It is just north of Kona, and accessed via a dirt road. Once you reach the beach, you are greeted by white sand, clear water, and plenty of trees for shade. Follow the coastal lava trail for one mile to visit Makalewena Beach. You will not find the usual tourist type attractions on this beach, but that is part of its attraction. Image via Flickr by Coast to Coast Move
Playa Norte, Mexico The tiny island of Mujures is believed to have once been the sanctuary for the Mayan goddess Ixchel. Today, it hosts one of the best beaches near Cancun, Mexico. Here you can feed whale sharks or explore the island via golf cart. The nightlife is active and food is plentiful. Image via Flickr by Dolanh
Flamenco Beach, Puerto Rico Flamenco Beach, named by the Discovery Channel as the second most beautiful beach in the world is located in a campground. Here you will find beach vendors with umbrellas, paddleboards, and other small watercraft. The beach is long and continues through the bay. Visitors swim, hike, picnic, and camp while surrounded by one of the most beautiful settings in the world. Make reservations early for this one. Image via Flickr by Ormoth
Relaxation is good for the soul.
TOP TEN TIME PIECES For Men
According to Benjamin Clymer [askmen.com], there are watches meant for sport, there are legacy watches meant to be passed down through generations, and then there are watches meant to inspire nothing but pure jealousy and lust. These luxury watches differ from others by virtue of unprecedented complication and the price that goes along with it. And real luxury watches are not appreciated by the vast majority of people that see them on the street but rather by a calling card for those true connoisseurs. This list will give you 10 of the very best and most coveted luxury watches on Earth. Note: MSRP values are approximations.
No. 10. Richard Mille RM027 Rafael Nadal
No. 9. Breguet La Tradition Fusee Tourbillon
Does it make sense for a watch to feature a tourbillon and cost $525,000 if it was designed to be worn while playing tennis? Absolutely not, but that’s part of the charm of the RM027. This watch weighs less than 20 grams and was actually sculpted to Rafael Nadal’s wrist and game so that he could wear it mid-match. The watch is so light that Richard Mille was forced to use plastic instead of glass for the crystal -- because using sapphire would have doubled the weight of the entire watch. Only 50 RM027s will see the light of day, and even at a half a million dollars, they are likely all accounted for.
Breguet is known as the master of the tourbillon, and La Tradition Fusee is one of the most innovative models. It features a silicon balance wheel that is practically impervious to such annoying things as gravity, and uses a chain and fusee transmission system rarely found in wristwatches. Couple all that with the effortlessly chic Breguet name, and you have a seriously fawnworthy watch.
MSRP: $525,000
MSRP: $158,550
No. 8. Thomas Prescher Flying Triple Axis Tourbillon
No. 7. Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Grande Complication
Handmade by one of the world’s greatest-living independent watchmaker, the Flying Triple Axis Tourbillon is nothing short of poetry in motion. To see the tourbillon rotate on not one or two but actually three separate axes is breathtaking. Each piece is custom built to the owner’s specifications and you will not find a Thomas Prescher Flying Triple Axis Tourbillon in any store in the United States. This is a watch that only those in the know know about. And in this case, knowing is all the battle. MSRP: $500,000
The Grande Complication from Audemars Piguet takes the classic and sporty Royal Oak case and puts it around one of the most incredible pieces of mechanical craftsmanship in the world. The in-house AP movement features not only a minute repeater, which tells the time by the hitting of a cathedral gong inside the case, but also a perpetual calendar that tracks the time, date, month, year, and moon phase for over 100 years without having to be reset. MSRP: $702,000
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TOP TEN TIME PIECES, cont. No. 6. Urwerk CC1 King Cobra
No. 5. MB&F HM3 Frog
Modeled after an early Patek Philippe prototype that never made it to production, the CC1 King Cobra closely resembles the dashboard of an old American automobile. It features completely linear gauges that display the hour and minute, and the finishing of this watch is world class. While Urwerk’s other watches may get a lot of attention, the CC1 is a true luxury watch.
Easily the most playful of the luxury watches, MB&F’s HM3 Frog variant takes an already interesting and complicated watch and makes it even more so. Called the frog because of the two large crystal and aluminum domes that protrude from the case like an amphibian’s eyes from the water, this magnificent piece of haute horology is perhaps the most buzzed about watch on the planet right now. The best part about the Frog is that most people won’t even know it’s a watch just by looking at it, and explaining what makes it so great is half the fun.
MSRP: $100,000
MSRP: $100,000 No. 4. Patek Philippe Sky Moon Tourbillon The name Patek Philippe is synonymous with luxury watches, and at the pinnacle of the Patek range is the Sky Moon To u r b i l l o n . T h e S k y Moon is so rare and valuable that there is no estimated retail price, and only three are produced each year. Like the Enzo Ferrari, each owner must be a longtime and influential client of the company before securing one of these astronomical timepieces for his own collection. When one of these uber-complicated watches does come up for sale, they usually sell for around $1.3 million. If that isn’t luxury, what is?
No. 3. A. Lange & Sohne Tourbograph "Pour le Mérite" Quickly gaining a reputation as one of the world’s preeminent watch manufacturers, even on par with Patek Philippe, is A. Lange & Sohne. The limited Tourbograph features an incredible A. Lange tourbillon coupled with a split-second chronograph capable of measuring one-sixteenth of a second. Like the Breguet above, it uses a fusee and chain transmission, and in 2006, the Tourbograph won the Special Jury Prize at the Watchmaking Grand Prix. MSPR: $500,000
MSRP: $1.3MM No. 2. Maitres Du Temps Chapter One What do you get when three of the greatest living watchmakers get together to produce one very special timepiece together? The answer is the Chapter One, from Maitres du Temps. This $395,000 timepiece is the work of Christophe Claret, Roger DuBuis and Peter SpeakeMarin, and it is hailed as one of the most impressive timepieces to have been built in the last decade. There are some slight variations on the Chapter One, including one with a round case, but the original is no less special -and certainly no less luxurious. MSRP: $395,000
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No. 1. Jean Dunand Palace The talk of last year's BaselWorld was the Palace by Jean Dunand. The Palace was inspired by a handful of global landscapes, structures and even a raceway or two to create one of the most complicated and impressive timepieces in the world. It features a flying tourbillon at the heart of the timepiece, and even the chain that drives it is designed to look like that of one on a vintage motorcycle. This eclectic and amazing watch can also be customized to your every whim. The Jean Dunand Palace is as impressive and luxurious as a timepiece can get. MSRP: $410,000
YM SPOTLIGHT Rolex GMT 116769TBR This expensive watch features a wave diamond dial with luminous hour markers. The bracelet is made of white gold (18K). This self-winding automatic watch features an Oysterlock clasp. The case and locks are encrusted with 76 brilliant round diamonds. MSRP: $500,00
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HOWARD HEWETT
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â?? YM EXCLUSIVE â?? HOWARD HEWETT YM SAT DOWN WITH R&B SINGER HOWARD HEWETT FOR A ONE ON ONE INTERVIEW.
YM: We are live with the legendary Howard Hewett. All the top producers in the country and people who love music know you. Fill our readers in a little bit. HH: I've been singing since I was 10 years old, this is all I've ever done. I first got on here to LA in '76, put a group together 6 or 7 months or so, then I got the offer to join Shalamar. It was an honor I got the offer to join the group on a Friday and then Monday I was in front of the TV camera. From that point on it was just one hit after the other with the group you know, Make That Move, A Night To Remember, For The Lover In You, all that stuff. In '85 I started doing my soul thing. YM: You've recorded some of the greatest, well in the same background. HH: I became friends with Stanley Clarke, legendary bass player, we had the same accountant at the time, and our accountant introduced us. Stanley then introduced me to George Duke, and the three of us then became friends. It always seemed like I would always kind of gravitate towards the Jazz guys like, Brian Culbertson, Joe Sample, Gerald Albright, and all those people, with female artists Anita Baker, Dionne Warwick, a lot of different people. YM: What is it like performing overseas? HH: I do shows overseas. Over there people are really, really into the history of stuff. There's been a couple of times people come to the show, I do autographs after, and they bring me a CD of stuff that I have done, and there's things on there sometimes I forgot I even did them. YM: You mentioned at 10 years old, was that the age when you first realized that you can sing? HH: It was my mom. She was a professor, a gospel promoter, once she found out my sisters and I
could hold a note, then she put together the Hewett singers and literally kicked me out on the stage. YM: What has been one of the keys to your longevity in the business? HH: Majority of the people out there, they listen to music and chronologize their lives according to what was happening, at the time that the music came out. When you have the honor to become the soundtrack of somebody's life, that's something you take very, very seriously, something that you respect. The best way to kill that whole thing off is to be rude to somebody when you're out there in public, because they literally are the reason why you're doing what you're doing, because it's not guaranteed, none of this was guaranteed. YM: Is there a difference now between being on the road back then and being on the road now? HH: Big difference now, back then you chase it, back then that's what I was doing, I was building that foundation. We were on the road sometimes eight, ten months out of the year. It was cool because the day that, "oh man, we just got out of the road did a tour," I say, "that's cool, we're here three weeks," three weeks, I believe that's an outing. YM: How would you describe your show? HH: Energetic, romantic, nostalgic, and just fun.
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YM EXCLUSIVE CELEBRITY OVERVIEW
Melba Moore
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Melba Moore American Rhythm & Blues singer and actress Melba Moore (b. New York, NY, 29 October 1945) is a fourtime Grammy nominee and the winner of the 1970 Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Musical, for her performance as Lutiebelle in Purlie. With a total of eleven top ten U.S. hits on the Billboard charts over the past 40 years, both singles and albums, Melba Moore continues into the 21st century as one of pop music’s most enduring artists. Moore was born Beatrice Melba Hill to the popular R & B singer known as Bonnie Davis (originally named Gertrude Melba Smith) and saxophonist Teddy Hill, who managed the influential Harlem jazz club Minton’s Playhouse in its heyday. The first nine years of the child’s life in Harlem were difficult; her mother was single, and distracted with her busy career (she had a Number One R & B hit, “Don’t Stop Now,” in 1943, before Melba was born). In 1954 Bonnie Davis married her long-time accompanist, pianist Clement Moorman, and the family moved permanently to Newark, New Jersey. Clem Moorman, and the large family of siblings, aunts, and uncles to which he belonged, transformed Melba’s life. He insisted that she and the other children learn to play the piano (although her primary interest was dance) and kept a watchful eye over her musical development. At the High School for Performing Arts in Newark she studied piano and voice, and went on to Montclair State College (New Jersey) for a bachelor's degree in music education. After graduation she worked briefly as a music teacher, but a life in the classroom was not what she had envisioned for herself. Moorman was in a position to introduce her to several agents, and soon Melba Moore (a name she chose in honor of her stepfather, abbreviating it slightly) was on track for a singing career, making backup tracks (with Nick Ashford and Valerie Simpson on Bobby Hebb’s “Sunny” in 1966), some of them for stars as prominent as Dionne Warwick and Aretha Franklin – although she was not actually working in the same space with them. During one recording session for a commercial voiceover in 1967 she met Galt MacDermot, composer of the musical Hair. (It is reported that he was not wearing shoes at the time.) Offhandedly, he invited her to join the cast of his new show off-Broadway, and she jumped at the chance. Melba Moore moved to Broadway with the original cast of Hair as the character named Dionne, and after several months she replaced Diane Keaton in the
role of Sheila. (Keaton had started as a “Waitress” and had moved to “Sheila” a month or so after the Broadway opening. The interchangeability of cast members in this highly unconventional show made it possible for Moore to become the first African-American actress to replace a white actress in a lead role on Broadway.) In a very short time, Moore was cast as Lutiebelle Gussie Mae Jenkins, opposite Cleavon Little, in the musical Purlie (1970). Having absolutely no training in acting, she found that working in such company was very scary, and yet she had no fear of being rejected, since stage acting had never been her own ambition. Originally she was assigned only one song, “Purlie,” in the show, but she had such success with it in previews that songwriters Gary Geld and Peter Udell gave her another, “I Got Love.” This song was such a smash hit that it shot her to stardom. Not only did it supply the title to her debut album with Mercury Records, which earned her a 1971 Grammy nomination as Best New Artist, but it boosted her to the 1970 Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Musical, a 1970 Theatre World Award, and a 1970 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Performance. In much later interviews, Moore has revealed that she considers this Broadway period, despite the three top awards, a hiatus, an interruption in her pilgrimage toward becoming a lead singer in the world of Rhythm and Blues. Still, it led to her first recording contract (three albums with Mercury Records: I Got Love 1970; Look What You're Doing to the Man 1971; Melba Moore Live! 1972) and a firm foothold as a guest on television (Ed Sullivan, David Frost, Mike Douglas, Dick Cavett, Carol Burnett, Flip Wilson, and thirteen appearances within three years on Johnny Carson’s Tonight Show). In the summer of 1972, Melba Moore and actor Clifton Davis co-starred in their own television series. It was intended as a temporary replacement for Carol Burnett’s variety show, but was so successful that it would have continued, had not the couple’s off-screen relationship come to an end. Moore’s career began to slump when her managers and accountants abandoned her in 1973, and she returned to Newark, singing only for benefits. Following a performance at the Apollo Theater in 1974, she met manager and business promoter Charles Huggins, and her career began to pick up again, with a leading role in a film version of Kurt Weill and Maxwell Anderson’s Lost in the Stars, opposite Brock Peters and Raymond St. Jacques. Moore and Huggins married in
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MELBA MOORE, CONT. 1975 and formed their own company, Hush Productions, signing several other R & B artists, including Freddie Jackson and Meli’sa Morgan.
maxing with "Read My Lips" (1985), which brought Moore a fourth nomination for a Grammy, for Best Female Rock Vocal Performance.
Melba Moore’s next four albums (Peach Melba 1975; This Is It 1976; Melba ’76; and A Portrait of Melba 1977) were recorded by Buddah Records. Peach Melba brought her a second Grammy nomination. Nineteen seventy-six was a banner year for her, with five singles approaching the top of the charts, and one of them, “Lean on Me,” earning her third Grammy nomination for Best Rhythm & Blues Vocal Performance, Female. As a single, “This Is It” reached Number Two on the U.S. dance charts. Moore also returned to television with a serious acting assignment, playing Harriet Tubman in The American Woman: Portraits of Courage, and emerging with an Emmy nomination.
Meanwhile, Melba Moore had not entirely abandoned acting. She had another brief Broadway appearance in May 1981 in the title role of Inacent Black, a play for which she wrote incidental music and lyrics. She also guested on several TV series – The Tim Conway Show, The Love Boat, Ellis Island, Hotel, two specials (The Adventures of a TwoMinute Werewolf and Charlotte Forten’s Mission: Experiment in Freedom) – and a TV movie version of Purlie (1981) in which she reprised her Tony-winning role of Lutiebelle.
In 1978 Moore returned to Broadway, starring as Marsinah in Timbuktu! with Eartha Kitt. The cast of Timbuktu!, “A Musical Fable based on Kismet,” was all black, with the Robert Wright/George Forrest score supplemented by African folk music, and with direction and choreography by Geoffrey Holder. Despite its success, Moore left the show after only a few weeks. Moving to Epic Records, she had another big hit with the disco track "You Stepped into My Life," in 1979. Three albums later, she signed with Capitol EMI and reached the top five on the R & B charts in 1982 with the dance single, "Love's Comin' At Ya." This was also a considerable hit in Europe and the UK. A string of successes followed ("Keepin' My Lover Satisfied" and "Love Me Right" in 1983, "Livin' For Your Love" in 1984, "When You Love Me Like This" in 1985), cli19 | YAHWEHMAGAZINE.COM
In 1986, she scored two number-one R & B hits, "Falling," and a duet with Freddie Jackson, "A Little Bit More." The same year she headlined her own TV sitcom, Melba. Unfortunately the premiere was the same night as the Challenger explosion and the remaining five episodes of the series had to be postponed, so that the project fizzled. The following year she appeared on four episodes of Falcon Crest. From 1987 to 1990, Moore released seven more singles: two reached the Top Twenty, and three were Top Ten hits, including "Lift Every Voice and Sing," which featured many well known artists (Freddie Jackson, Stevie Wonder, Aretha Franklin, Jeffrey Osborne, Anita Baker, and Stephanie Mills among others) and was entered into the Congressional Record as the “African-American national anthem.” Then in 1991 Melba Moore suffered a huge blow: her husband and manager of fifteen years abruptly divorced her without warning. Suddenly she was broke, and her career went into a worse slump than be-
fore. At one point she even went on welfare and was estranged from her daughter, who went to live with Bill Cosby’s family. But she managed to rebound: she toured with the Atkins sisters in Michael Matthews’s Gospel Play Mama I'm Sorry (Moore is both a Catholic and a born-again Christian), and began to perform the one-woman musical autobiography, variously titled, that would become Sweet Songs of the Soul. A Broadway agent who caught her solo act somewhere in the provinces realized that Melba’s voice would be a perfect fit for the part of Fantine in Les Misérables, and in due course, in January 1995, Melba Moore was back on Broadway again, the first black actress to play the role. In 1996 she released her first album in six years, Happy Together, with the Lafayette Harris, Jr., Trio. By calculations that may not be altogether reliable, Melba Moore has recorded about seventy singles and EPs overall, appears on fourteen compilations, and has made nineteen albums – among the more recent are Solitary Journey (1999), A Very Special Christmas (2001), I’m Still Here (2002), Night in St. Lucia (2002), Nobody but Jesus (2004), Live in Concert (2007), and, with singer Phil Perry, her first R & B album in nearly 20 years, The Gift of Love (2009). In 2003, Moore was featured in the film The Fighting Temptations, which starred Cuba Gooding, Jr. and Beyoncé Knowles. In 2006 she toured with American Idol star Diana DeGarmo in the musical Brooklyn. Other TV series, movies, and voiceovers for animated features to which Melba Moore has contributed her talents are ABC Afterschool Specials.
⏐ YM EXCLUSIVE ⏐ MELBA MOORE MELBA MOORE, CONT. (1987), The Cosby Show (1988), Mother's Day (1989), All Dogs Go to Heaven (1989), Monsters (1989), Def by Temptation (1990), Mathnet (1992), Square One TV (1992), and Loving (1992). Melba Moore has received honorary degrees in Humanities from Florida A&M University and from her alma mater, Montclair State. After her success at the Café Carlyle in April 2011 in a cabaret act called Forever Moore, she has a new R&B album forthcoming, her first in twenty years, by the same title. Her single, “Love Is,” is now available on iTunes. She continues to perform and work on her onewoman play (a development of Sweet Songs of the Soul) called Still Standing: The Melba Moore Story. Melba Moore is remarkably forthcoming about herself and the trials she has borne. In a recent (2012) interview she reveals, “I have been low more than once, and I want people to know that it won’t happen just once, it will happen many times. I guess if you have a dream, and you have something that you want to live for, that makes you think about more than the devastation that you are experiencing …maybe people that you love that need you, or maybe you have a question like why did that happen, or am I going to live through this? Sometimes you really feel like you want it to be over and even contemplate suicide, but for some reason you don’t, so you wait a minute, and wait a minute, and wait another minute, then after a while you just get the heck up! [She laughs.] Then you’re so shocked you can laugh about it, because life is a mystery.” – Lucy E. Cross
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