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• With the soul and R&B band Impressions, Curtis Mayfield had already scored several chart hits, but the greatest success of his career as a solo artist came in 1972 with the soundtrack “Superfly”. Mayfield contrasted the Blaxploitation film about a cocaine dealer willing to quit with texts in which he critically commented on the reality of life in urban ghettos. His music is a journey through urban neighbourhoods, ways of thinking and living, which functions both as a description of the status quo and as an emotionally charged wake-up call. The Chicago-born singer makes use of a falsetto for long stretches, underlining the contradictory feelings of sympathy, anger, sadness, sensuality, hardness, despair and fear of the protagonists. In this way Mayfield conveys unpleasant truths and critical per