"You Got Me" - Jaibi.
Taken from, 'Soulful Kind Of Music' because I couldn't have put it any better...
This very rare and exquisite side has not diminished one jot in its brilliance or its power to move and communicate to the inner heart.
Her death is doubly sad when one reflects that although she never had any "hit" records, she perhaps never knew that over here in Britain on the strength of "You Got Me" alone, her name was held in awe and legend. Perhaps the fact that so little was known about her, that her output was so sparse, added to the mystique, but her life and death illustrate well my deep conviction that no matter what, quantity of output is no substitute for quality of output. No matter if you have only ever made one record, or written one book, or made one film, if that work is a great work of art then your name deserves to be remembered and your memory thanked equally as if you had produced dozens. For, in the creation of a masterpiece, even if it only touches the lives of a few, you have enriched life itself beyond measure, and in this respect, those who benefit in this way have been given a precious jewel of experience to add to all those other magic moments we collect as we journey through life.
Without Jaibi's magnificent recording "You Got Me", my own life would have been less, and certainly Jaibi will always have a special place in my heart and memory because of it. Great artistry always endures and survives the passage of time, and great Soul music is for keeps.
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