Rhythm: entrepreneur & international drummer Queen Cora

Beatie Wolfe interviews author, producer, business owner, and international drummer Queen Cora Coleman (with Prince for over 5yrs and Beyoncé for 3yrs) about the power of patterns and being a multi-dimensional creative. Listen to this dublab radio show that takes you from visual journaling to living out those dreams via the thread of life’s upbeats and downbeats. 

Orange Juice for the Ears with “musical weirdo and visionary” (Vice) Beatie Wolfe explores the power of music across Space, Science, Art, Health, Film & Technology by talking to the leading luminaries in each field from Nobel Prize winners to multi-platinum producers and hearing the music that has most impacted them, their “Orange Juice for the Ears”. Beatie Wolfe is an artist who has beamed her music into space, been appointed a UN Women role model for innovation and held an acclaimed solo exhibition at the V&A Museum.

Queen Cora’s Orange Juice for the Ears

  • First song that imprinted? “Simple Pleasures” by Bobby McFerrin

  • First album that shaped who you are? “Think (About It)” by Lyn Collins - from Think (About It)

  • The music you would send into Space? “What About” by Queen Cora

  • The song you would have at your memorial? “I Am Light” by India Arie 

  • The album you would pass onto your kids? “Birdland” by Quincey Jones - from Back on the Black 

The show opens with “Purple Rain” (live at the Superbowl) by Prince, a track Beatie Wolfe most associates with Queen Cora as she was performing with him at this historic halftime show. 

The show first aired live on LA’s dublab radio but is also available as a podcast. This podcast was Mastered by Dean Hovey. For rights reasons the music in this podcast version is shorter than in the original broadcast.

Life is rhythm and rhythm is just patterns...an amazing blend of upbeats & downbeats...sound & silence.

— QUEEN CORA