Deja View; Memoirs of a Funk Diva

Texas native and Funk Diva,  Patryce “Choc’Let” Banks has released a luscious new memoir that chronicles one helluva ride aboard the Graham Central Station train. This soul-scorching, page-turning and often mind-boggling tale of how Patryce came to be the group’s co-founding member and  greatest female vocal presence, is chock full of truly jaw-dropping anecdotes on what life was like in the studio, on the road and behind the scenes with some of funk music’s biggest legends. This kaleidoscopic journey with Choc’Let takes one back in time thru a magical era of music and culture. She tells it straight with no chaser.

This deeply personal and profoundly moving story is at its root, about one woman’s challenges and struggles for self and professional respect in a predominantly male-controlled industry and society. It’s a veritable who’s who of black music in the 70s and beyond.

She is now respected throughout the music world as one of the great innovators in the genre. This is an account of her experiences from inside the trenches of one of funk’s most powerhouse bands at the height of its creative and commercial powers.

Cincinnati, OH Funk Journalist~"Bustin'"Bob Mitchell