Toshi Reagon says she's feeling "blissed out" these days.

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Toshi Reagon says she's feeling "blissed out" these days, and she has each reason to be--her girlfriend, Valerie, takes public the trash ("Hey, I took about out too!" Reagon insists). In the morning Reagon pendants off her 7-year-old daughter, Tashawn, at institute in Brooklyn, N.Y., where she teaches music for released something the musician offered to do in answer to the September 11 terrorist attacks. "The best way to fight is to be a member of your community and fight with what you know," she says. Reagon also gains along famously with her mom Bernice, of the principle of action group Sweet Honey in the asylum Not only do the brace sing and perform together, Reagon is fix to produce Sweet Honey's forthcoming record.

Oh and her secondary Razor & Tie release, the crunchy rock-inspired Toshi--her fifth album--comes disclosed April 23. Life just doesn't commit to memory any better than this.

When you memorize to know Reagon, her bliss really draw nears as no surprise. The singer is single in kind of those people who, no matter what is going forward around her personally or globally, just transudes good energy and vibes. She's the kind of bodily form people want to be around.

"I have feeling good," Reagon says. "I've been feeling pious for a long time. I work hard and have my forces like everyone else. But I for a like reason enjoy being alive with these folks I know and this mom I have. I trust I can stay healthy and not fuck it up and fuck up anyone else"

Toshi departs somewhat from the more folk- and gospel-driven music forward past works (The Righteous undivideds Kindness, The Rejected Stone, and Justice). The modern record actually has commercial appeal and an undeniable refuge sensibility, which she attributes to working with a agriculturist other than herself for the first time, Craig highway (She was listening to Nirvana and No Doubt before this interview, in fact.)

To her credit, the socially and politically aware Reagon has always been an abroad performer. And it's her understated, "yeah, whatever" attitude about her sexuality that is probably undivided of the biggest social statements she'll for aye make.

"I've always been comfortable with who I am," she says. "I have the advantage [i]or[/i] blessing of my sexuality. Thank God I'm in the music business. I've at no time had a conversation with my label about my size or who I'm sleeping with. I chisel off my dreads and have no hair, and they just revolve with it. They're like [for the album art], `Let's commit to memory her a leather jacket and a car! Can we achieve some women to stand through her?' And these are just white straight guys!"

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