Album Notes

Welcome To STAYING BLACK®

Let us introduce ourselves. We are the new sound of old school music. We are

"STAYING BLACK".

This music entity and concept was created by David M. Kirkendall and David R. Zabalza.

We met each other when we first attended Clyde L. Fisher Middle School in the East Side of San Jose, California, in the 1971-72 school year.

We are still best friends and we are now both 47 years old. We are still pursuing our music and the dream of music, but in a whole new way.

We grew up listening to groups like;

Earth Wind and Fire, War, Isley Brothers, Heat Wave, Blue Magic, Ohio Players, The Whispers, Commodores, Brick, Frankie Beverly and Maze, Kool & the Gang, Stevie Wonder, and the list is literally endless.

But the point we are making is this;
Old School R & B music is what we grew up listening to and the sound that we love to hear.

R & B music, which has always been pre-dominantly a black sound, and the African American/black culture are now the pop culture, and the center of pop music. In furthering that momentum we are trying to be a small part of the pop culture and the pop music growth.

Since we are musicians, we will do are part to help keep the new pop music, black.

That is why our music and we are
"STAYING BLACK".