With one of the most distinctive and recognizable voices in contemporary music, Toni Braxton returns to the international marketplace with the 2005 release of Libra, her sizzling debut set for Blackground/Universal Records.
The eagerly-anticipated follow-up to her top-selling CD, More Than A Woman, the new album finds the multiple Grammy award...
After five decades of consistent hit-making, Neville has, in the words of one Rolling Stone writer, "reached a highpoint in a career marked by artistic superlatives. Bring It On Home - The Soul Classics is an album for the ages and Neville's most remarkable work to date."
"These classic songs," says Aaron, "have been pumping blood to my heart fr...
Ironically there are no textbooks or classroom instructions that could help one balance the equations of Kedar Massenburg's newest protégé, ALGEBRA. The Atlanta native insists that one can only discover her sonically. As an R&B solo artist with such a simple solution, when mainstream success seems to be more about the right hair, nails and make -up...
Alice Smith is in Los Angeles, staying high above Sunset Boulevard at that most iconic hotel of ripened Hollywood sensuality, the Chateau Marmont. Someone asks Smith if she likes it there. "Oh yeah," Smith answers with zero hesitation, "I do."
She has more to say on the subject of the hotel: "Here's the thing," Smith says, "the one room here tha...
Nine-time Grammy Award winner Alicia Keys returns with her long-awaited third studio album, As I Am, set for a worldwide release on November 13 on J Records. Within 10 hours of being serviced to radio, Alicia first single, “No One,” became one of the fastest moving and highest charting single on Billboard’s Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart. This also ma...
The sound of passion, inspiration and authority! Alkendria's style is a refreshing blend of Christian Soul and Contemporary Praise. Her angelic voice and spirit-filled delivery brings the message of hope & healing in an exciting way, that creates a delightful and evangetaining experience in music....
Growing up in an artists’ building in New York, at an early age, Amel Larrieux was immersed in an avant-garde environment. The bohemian characters and creative culture surrounding Amel helped form her elegant, yet urban, and always innovative style and sound.
By age 18, she wrote a song and created a demo tape, which led her to pair with Bryce...
At a time when hip-hop mixed with soul music is as common as stop signs on street corners, it’s often very difficult to identify uniqueness in the genre. The emergence of one-named, three-hit wonders has appeared to overwhelm our one-named, thirty-hit, legends. Furthermore, what do we call the music permeating today’s top ten lists, Hip-Hop laced, ...
"Producer, singer songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Angela Johnson is a bad bad girl. Perhaps not since the heyday of Patrice Rushen and Angela Winbush has a young (female) soul musician displayed so much ability (Brett Collins/Toledo City Paper)." If Angela Johnson were a man, she'd probably be one of the most revered producer/songwriters in to...
In the ever-changing universe of contemporary music, there are very few artists who have remained as creatively consistent as singer, songwriter, producer and actress Angie Stone. Whether belting out tunes on Broadway (most recently she appeared as “Big Mama Morton” in the Tony Award winning production of “Chicago”) or crafting new songs on the t...
