Let's Stay Together Featured as one of Rolling Out's Great Black Independent Films of 2012

It's always a good feeling when "Let's Stay Together," seems to enter the collective subconscious and comes out in strange moments in pop culture.  On October 7, 2010, NBC's poplular comedy 30 Rock, titled episode 503, "Let's Stay Together," named after an idea that the character "Dot Com" (Kevin Brown) says,"Well, here's something I've been working on. It's called Let's Stay Together, after the Al Green song. It focuses on an African American family in Detroit in the seventies. Motown, the auto industry, Vietnam, Watergate. Let's Stay Together's not just about family trying to stay together, but also a nation." Did 30 Rock writer, Jack Burditt, know about the film "Let's Stay Together?"  I have no idea.  In 2011, Jacque Edmonds began airing his sitcom for BET called "Let's Stay Together," and friends asked me if I thought I should change my film's title.  I said I would if the show were good.  Though the BET show has aired another season, I'm staying with the title. 
Then there was the great moment on January 19, 2012  when President Obama showed his singing chops singing, Al Green's classic at the Apollo Theatre:

And yesterday "Let's Stay Together" was sited in Rollingout.com as one of the Great Black Independent Films of 2012. Big thanks to Ruthie Hawkins and all the folks at Rolling Out! http://rollingout.com/entertainment/great-black-independent-films-of-2012/7/

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"Let's Stay Together" themesong singer, Iyadede in MTV Iggy

I met Iyadede outside of SOBs after J Davey had an incredible performance there on steamy summer night in July of 2008. She told me her name was Sabrina and she was from Rwanda via Belgium. I asked her what her Rwandan name was and she said, "Iyadede," and I've refused to call her anything but Iyadede ever since. As our friendship has grown, I've shot a live performance for her and interviewed her for the Caribbean Cultural Center. I knew I wanted to collaborate with her in "Let's Stay Together," and had her come play a young mother with her daughters in the laundry mat. She also sang a version of "Let's Stay Together," that I made into the opening song for the film. It has a real bluesy, ethereal vibe and sets the tone for Parker's search for solutions to the dissolution of family.
here's Iyadede in MTV IGGY:
Rwandan Electopop It Girl Iyadede Falls to Earth