| For Colored Girls: Music From and Inspired by the Original Motion Picture Soundtrack | |
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| Soundtrack album by various artists | |
| Released | November 2, 2010 |
| Recorded | 2010 |
| Length | 50:10 |
| Label | Atlantic |
For Colored Girls: Music From and Inspired by the Original Motion Picture Soundtrack is a soundtrack album for the feature film For Colored Girls (2010), released on November 2, 2010.[1]
Andy Kellman with Allmusic gave the soundtrack a four star rating, commenting "Most of the artists -- an impressive mix of distinct personalities, much like the film’s cast -- contribute strong material that benefits from the context; each selection sounds like it belongs on the soundtrack for this particular film".[2] Nitsuh Abebe with New York Magazine called the release "solemn and portentous", saying "It’s being asked to perform an absurd, impossible task — somehow embracing as much as possible of the entire modern experience of black American women — so it stretches in a few directions".[3]
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| No. | Title | Performer | Length | ||||||
| 1. | "Main Title (with Joshua Bell, Aaron Zigman & The Hollywood Studio Symphony Orchestra)" | Loretta Devine, Kimberly Elise, Whoopi Goldberg, Janet Jackson, Thandie Newton, Phylicia Rashad, Anika Noni Rose, Tessa Thompson, Kerry Washington | 3:49 | ||||||
| 2. | "Longer & Stronger" | Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings | 3:44 | ||||||
| 3. | "All Day Long (Blue Skies)" | Estelle | 3:45 | ||||||
| 4. | "What More Can They Do" | Laura Izibor | 3:25 | ||||||
| 5. | "Sun" | Lalah Hathaway | 2:40 | ||||||
| 6. | "Ansomnia" | Zaki Ibrahim | 5:09 | ||||||
| 7. | "Settle" | Gladys Knight | 3:32 | ||||||
| 8. | "La Donna In Viola" | Karen Slack, Andrea Jones-Sojola & The Hollywood Studio Symphony Orchestra | 3:27 | ||||||
| 9. | "Sechita (A Senhora em Amarelo)" | Anika Noni Rose & Carondelet Percussion Ensemble | 1:57 | ||||||
| 10. | "Stand Up" | Macy Gray | 3:15 | ||||||
| 11. | "Without A Fight" | Janelle Monáe | 3:36 | ||||||
| 12. | "Four Women" | Nina Simone, Simone, Laura Izibor & Ledisi | 3:55 | ||||||
| 13. | "I Know Who I Am" | Leona Lewis | 4:08 | ||||||