Also, as an aside, ever notice that the greatest number of people described as singer/songwriters are Caucasians?
With a fair amount of related Surinams in my family by marriage, I am not too sure if 'caucasian' still means something, but laying that aside: I am not too knowledgable in the s/s genre, but Ben Harper, Terry Callier and Joan Armatrading spring to mind, and they sure aren't white! A black singer/ songwriter might as well have his fair deal of discrimination along the lines of his black colleagues in the classical, C&W and electronic fields. BTW There's one person singer/ songwriter where I have absolutely no clue whether he's black or white: Douglas September, never seen the guy, so I wouldn't know. Regards, Remco Takken Our Roots Began In Africa, said Pharoah Sanders one day, and even he doesn't look a bit like an African, he has a point.