• Candelestine@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    I don’t think Bono from U2 gets enough credit for how much he helped in raising awareness for a variety of things. He’s no John Lennon, but he did have quite an impact in those pre-internet days.

    But yeah, she’s pretty high on the list. And definitely standing on the shoulders of giants, so to speak, which I think she knows. She wouldn’t be where she was without the likes of Nina Simone, Aretha Franklin, Madonna and Sinead O’Conner each suffering to plow the road partway first. Among countless others that pitched in.