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D'Angelo: Radio City Music Hall: New York City

Carol Cooper, Spin, June 2000

LIVE PERFORMANCE is where music becomes ceremony, a ritual redefining the performer for his or her audience. Like videos, concerts turn a performer into a shaman, a messenger, a symbolic projection of human potential that fans embrace or internalize.

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