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| Sharony Andrews Green: Grant Green |
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Sharony Andrews Green was born in 1967 in Miami, FL. She began working at The Miami Herald in 1984 while in high school. She continued interning at the paper as a student at the University of Miami where she graduated in 1989 with a double major in Broadcast Journalism and Political Science. Upon graduation, she began to work full-time for the Herald. Among other things, she covered Miami's black community and participated in coverage of significant stories including a visit to the city by South African leader Nelson Mandela after his prison release and civil disturbances in the city following the ousting of former Haitian president Jean Bertrand Aristide.
In 1992, while working on a tourism story for the paper, she met Grant Green Jr. (not to be confused with his older brother, Gregory Green, who plays guitar professionally under the name Grant Green Jr.) It wasn't until she and Grant Jr. moved to Detroit, where she worked as both a reporter and the Assistant National Editor for The Detroit Free Press, that she grew interested in researching his father's life. Not only did the city have a rich musical history that went beyond Motown - dozens of jazz players came from the area, Detroit is also where the elder Grant Green lived before his untimely death at the age of 43 in 1979. Though he'd recorded on nearly 100 albums as leader and sideman with many of the greats in the business including Herbie Hancock, Stanley Turrentine, Lou Donaldson and others, his name was often missing in most jazz encyclopedias. Over six years, Sharony interviewed many people including musicians, club owners, record executives, family, fans and friends to learn more about Grant who seemed to have narrowly missed his celebrity even though he was the most recorded artist on Blue Note Records between 1961 and 1965. While working on the book on Grant, Sharony felt her own artistic urgings and went back to her first love - art. Her first book, "Cuttin the Rug Under the Moonlit Sky: Stories and Drawings About a Bunch of Women Named Mae", which she wrote and illustrated, was published by Doubleday in 1997. Today, her paintings on found wood hang in Peligro Gallery in New Orleans, Red Piano Too Gallery on St. Helena Island, S.C., Zeitgeist Gallery in Detroit and the House of Blues in Las Vegas, Nevada. Sharony recently returned to journalism as the Business Editor for The Columbus (Ga.) Ledger-Enquirer. She is the middle child of a Pentecostal preacher with roots in the Bahamas and Georgia, and a mother with roots in the Mississippi Delta. |
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