Sun Ra

Sun Ra is a very interesting person & musician. He claimed to have never been born & denied all of his past from where he was born (Alabama) to being trained in classical music which he was. His thinking was more far out than anything that I've ever heard. In learning about him I was under the impression that he had to be doing heavy drugs in order to come up with the ideas that he came up with but he wasn't. He claimed to be abducted by aliens & probed so he can transcend from being a basic human & now he believes that he is not of this earth. What gets me the most about his music are there crazy costumes that look like Egyptian royalty robes mixed with outer space Star Trek type clothing. With all that said & understanding how far out he was & how disconnected he sounds like he is from reality & society, Sun Ra was a very big impact on the black community during his time.