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Originally posted by FreeXone
Too an extent, but I think success and talent trump looks in the end. Some of the most prolific and successful pop acts of all time have been black:
Michael Jackson (He was most famous with thriller when he was still black)
Whitney Houston
Mariah Carey
Janet Jackson
Prince
Tina Turner
Aretha Franklin
etc..
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Tina was only a hit when she turned rock. She wasn't really using black music so to speak, she had to change her whole look as she was a flop before. Aretha did well, extraordinarily, but 90% of her contemporaries flopped and hard, it was her voice that carried her. Prince did best out of Purple rain, but before that was a rollercoaster of success. Janet, MJ, Whit and MC pretty much were pioneers of what they did vocally, performance wise and musically, so they stood out like sore thumbs.