Most Underrated Black Female Singers

5. DK DysonWhen so called “Black Rock” began making a splash with the quartet Living Colour thanks in part to the efforts of the Black Rock Coalition, another band slid onto Epic Records behind them: Eye & I. Fronting this band was female singer DK Dyson with a power that could not only chase rain clouds away, it could turn mountains into rubble. The group suffered the cruel fate of being too eclectic for its own good throwing Rock, Funk, Hip Hop, Pop and Punk into a blender that no single radio format elected to support. But from the power ballad “Virgin Heart” to the anthemic chant “Don’t Just Say Peace” to the cosmos rearranging “World Without End” even to a cover of Lou Reed’s “Venus in Furs,” Sister Dyson was a blast of bracing arctic air all over that 1992 anomaly deserving of wider recognition. Teaching yoga now following one solo release, DK still has a voice the world could surely use right now tied to the consciousness of her life walk.