You listen to that?

[Stephanie]

Who introduced you to rock music or any other genre not considered black? Do/did you get weird looks from family and friends?

[Isis]

Yes girl but i Rock on just the same. Hey, i turned a friend on to some Jesse Norman. now i know thats classical not to many are into it. but the look on his face was priceless. It amazes me how the color of our skin really matters in the most subtle way. hey i still blast my kizz in the car when I get ready. Looks and all. Hehe

[Zenith99]

Me too. At first i got some small jokes for it, but people get used to it.

And no one has managed to ever truly offended me because all I can think is, 'Buddy, you don't know what you are missing'. :)

And that goes for anyone who limits themselves to only one genre.

[Zenith99]

If I am truly being honest, I first started liking what I would have called white music during 6 AM swim team pratices. We lived in all white neighboorhood then, and they would play acoustical and punk rock during the warm up laps. The music would vibrate through the water, and always seemed to pump louder in the early morning practies. Later in the day, almost everyone had come out, and you could barely hear a thing. I think it may have been because the people's movemnt and chatter disturb the sound waves. The music was above ground, and played through cheap bull-horn style speakers, but at the crack of dawn, you could find all us swimmers freestyling to the beat.

[wynterhawk]

I'd say that my older sister indirectly introduced me to rock music. Growing up, she was into The Police, Peter Gabriel etc.; the typical "white" 80s type music. So, me being the little sister with a penchant of snooping through her LP collection, it became the kind of music that I listened to as well. My family was also very classical and easy listening oriented, so there really was no R&B played in the house. I'll leave it at that, because it could become a very long story :) I do have a co-worker who repeatedly tells me that I'm going to have my "Black card" revoked, because of my music choices... in addition to my other activities that, according to her, "black folks don't do". Then I get the "oh you don't know about this kind of music" when she brings up bands like Earth, Wind and Fire. Of course I know about it, because I don't narrow my music interests to just one particular thing. Just makes me roll my eyes. Oh and hello! New member here :)

[Katherine Yeboah]

My husband got me into it! My Dad thinks I've gone crazy because he remembers me listening to motown growing up!