Jamila Wignot

director/producer

Jamila Wignot on KCRW

A new HBO docu-series looks at the rise of Stax Records. The label that boasted Otis Redding and Isaac Hayes couldn’t survive the cut-throat music industry.

Soul label Stax Records couldn’t break through to white America

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