Sounds Of Blackness has been played over 40 times on NTS, first on 21 February 2013. Sounds Of Blackness's music has been featured on 40 episodes.

Sounds of Blackness is a Grammy Award-winning vocal and instrumental ensemble from Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota who perform music from several genres music including gospel, R&B, soul, and jazz.[2] The group scored several hits on the Billboard R&B chart and Billboard Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart in the 1990s. Cynthia Johnson of Lipps Inc. fame and Grammy winner Ann Nesby are the group's most prominent alumni.

The group was founded in 1969 by Russell Knighton at Macalester College in St….