{"id":5077,"date":"2012-02-01T16:48:52","date_gmt":"2012-02-01T22:48:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/music.sportsinnercity.com\/?p=5077"},"modified":"2012-02-01T16:48:52","modified_gmt":"2012-02-01T22:48:52","slug":"the-reason-i-started-mic-tv-don-cornelius-has-died","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/musicinnercity.com\/?p=5077","title":{"rendered":"The Reason I Started “M.I.C-TV” Don Cornelius Has Died"},"content":{"rendered":"

Listen to the latest edition of “Music Inner City Radio” podcast below hosted by Gordon Curvey and based in Seattle, Washington (U.S.) 24-7 on-demand!!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n
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ARTICL<\/a>\"\"<\/a>E FROM thegrio.com (full story click here)<\/a><\/p>\n

I am shocked and saddened today because the person who inspired me to start a TV program named “Music Inner City TV” more than twenty one years ago, Don Cornelius has died at age 75 of a possible suicide.<\/p>\n

Word is Cornelius was very sick maybe with cancer. He has not looked to well in recent years. At the BET Awards a few years ago Don had trouble reading the teleprompter to announce the next performer in a tribute to the legendary O’Jays.<\/p>\n

As a kid I stood in front of my mirror with a pencil in my hand trying to be like Don Cornelius hosting “Soul Train” He is the main reason I came up with the idea of “Music Inner City TV” in 1990 here in Seattle. And here it is 21 years later I am still producing the show. But it is all because of the legendary Don Cornelius.<\/p>\n

And I had a chance to tell Don that he was my “idol” a few years ago at a event in L.A. That was a thrill to tell him in his face that I started my TV show because of him.\u00a0 God willing “M.I.C-TV” will be around as long as “Soul Train”<\/p>\n

Thanks Don for what you did for me and for r&b music. When the word legend\u00a0is used it for sure is used when we discuss……Don Cornelius.\u00a0 Rest in peace my brotha.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Gordon Curvey<\/p>\n

“Music Inner City Radio” podcast is coming soon right here!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Listen to the latest edition of “Music Inner City Radio” podcast below hosted by Gordon Curvey and based in Seattle, Washington (U.S.) 24-7 on-demand!! ARTICLE FROM thegrio.com (full story click here) I am shocked and saddened today because the person who inspired me to start a TV program named “Music Inner City TV” more than […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[997,770,998,15,999,1000,380,46],"class_list":["post-5077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured","category-hip-hoprb","tag-don-corneius","tag-legendary","tag-mirror","tag-seattle","tag-sick","tag-soul-train","tag-suicide","tag-tv","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/musicinnercity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5077"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/musicinnercity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/musicinnercity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/musicinnercity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/musicinnercity.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5077"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/musicinnercity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5077\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/musicinnercity.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/musicinnercity.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/musicinnercity.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}