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Aussi étonnant que cela puisse paraître, la sublime chanteuse Soul R&B Teedra Moses n'a publié, en près de 8 ans de carrière, qu'un seul et unique album. C'était en 2004, et l'opus en question, "Complex Simplicity" lui avait permis de gagner ses galons de muse de la scène underground. On se souvient évidemment de l'excellent single "Be Your Girl" et de son tout aussi inoubliable remix, " "Still Your Girl" , sur lequel apparaissaient la chanteuse Truth Hurts et Raphael Saadiq , ce [...]

In 2008, 70's Funk and Soul legend Lee Fields , who happens to have gained some late recognition through his work with French DJ Martin Solveig , recorded the album "My World" as Lee Fields & The Expressions . With a little help from a backing band who had already worked on albums by the Dap Kings , Amy Winehouse or TV On The Radio , the musician produced a wonderful piece of traditional Soul. The ballad "Ladies" , which I first heard on DJ Anthony Valadez [...]

In terms of music, we can't deny Mick Jagger and Raphael Saadiq provided us with the best moment of the 2011 Grammy Awards this past Sunday, though the pairing of the two musicians didn't come out on screen exactly as I had fantasized. The "Stone Rollin'" musician chose, indeed, to stay away from the limelight (but was it really intentional, I'm still wondering) while the Rolling Stone frontman rocked the Staples Center stage with an explosive rendition of the late Solomon Burke 's signature hit, "Everybody Needs Somebody" [...]

It's not what we could call a brand new song, litteraly speaking. This one, I just discovered today, and figured out after searching the interweb it was something coming from American retro Soul singer Eli "Paperboy" Reed 's latest album. Released in 2010 through the Capitol/Emi imprint, "Young Girl" is the opening track from the musician's third effort, "Come And Get It" . And it is actually not new at all, as it is a revamped version of a very rare oldschool Soul item recorded by an almost unknow artist of the 60's from the Boston [...]

Camelia Jordana , the young and talented singer launched by the French version of Pop Idol, released the video for her third single yesterday. The track is called "Moi C'est" , and it's a great mix of feel good Pop and soft Rock, with that catchy hook I can't help but sing along to. Camelia Jordana is an incredible vocalist. At only 18 years old, though at first, she reminded me of Adele and Kate Nash (she was known to be a fan of the latter, and regularly cited Lily Allen [...]

With a simple warning and a promise to be cleared in exchange of 200 hours of community service (and an irreproachable behaviour in the upcoming 12 months), Bruno Mars settled his case quite well, and his recent trials and tribulations in Las Vegas leave us with a happy ending. Now that the whole world has figured out the Pop hearth-throb is nowhere near the "Mr Perfect with those cutie dimples" character portrayed in the video for his debut smash "Just The Way You Are" , hopefully, Bruno Mars can keep rockin' on. As I stumbled [...]

A winter season favorite to many, Wham! 's "Last Christmas" has been covered more than 400 times ! Every existing version of the George Michael penned 1984 Pop hit has even been compiled on a very special blog you should all visit once : last-christmas.com . You'll might just be as surprised as I was to learn that the cheesy ballad has even been covered by the likes of Coldplay and Pete Doherty ! One of the latest addition to this ever growing list is the [...]

Some of you may have noticed a quite familiar voice in the latest H&M TV commercials. Dallas Soul songstress Erykah Badu has actually recorded this past summmer a cover of Muddy Waters blues standard "Mannish Boy" exclusively for the Swedish clothing brand giant. The Holiday 2010 campaign is now everywhere on French TV, but the track is nowhere to be found... yet. Sources say the song might become available somewhere anytime soon, and we'll definitely be on the lookout for that. In the meantime, let's take a look [...]

Diggy Simmons . Retenez bien son nom si ce n'est déjà fait, car j'ai l'honneur de vous informer que le futur du Hip Hop passera par ce jeune homme. Qu'est-ce que j'y connais en Hip Hop moi ? Pas grand chose. Mais je touche ma bille en Soul et en R&B, et l'instru culte sur laquelle pose le fils du révérend Run du groupe Run DMC (dont je vous avais d'ailleurs déjà parlé sur mysoul ici ) est tout simplement démentielle. Au point d'avoir inspiré pléthore de crooners R&B et de [...]

I've been keeping this one to myself for a while now, but it's time, eventually, to share this newly found gem with you all. Parisian born Blues musician Charles Pasi could be described as the French answer to Jamie Cullum , mixed with The John Bulter Trio , and spiced up with some Citizen Cope flava ! That's the bunch of artists that comes to mind when I listen to Charles Pasi 's recently released EP "Uncaged" , and, if you wanna try and taste this appetizing recipe (a luscious blend of [...]

We've blogged about it a few days ago, the highly anticipated Amy Winehouse and Mark Ronson comeback song, off of the Quincy Jones tribute album, "Q : Soul Bossa Nostra" , premiered online today. We're not quite sure yet about our favorite Brit soulstress's rework of this 1963 Lesley Gore Pop classic, but you'll get a chance to make your own opinion right after the jump. Also included, T-Pain 's cover of this untouchable MJ track. Oh yeah, he did it, the autotune way. With a [...]

As we are expecting the video for her latest single, "10 Seconds" to drop anytime soon, Jazmine Sullivan provides us with a lil something to patiently wait with. The soulstress pleased the crowd on this recent live performance during the Mary J. Blige "Music Saved My Life" tour, when she chose to cover a cult 90's R&B song made famous by female trio SWV . "Weak" is a ballad which has inspired lots of young singers ( Keke Palmer , Karina Pasian , JoJo and dutch [...]

It's not that new (the song actually debuted at the end of this summer) but I'm really feeling the motion typography video from Inglewood based combo Cali Swag District . The track is, of course, built around a sample of Michael Jackson 's early hit, "I Wanna Be Where You Are" (off his "Got To Be There" album released back in 1972). I also figured out while writing this post that The Fugees did use the very same MJ classic for their 2006 song "Wanna Be" . A track recorded for [...]

"I grew up with so many different music genres. With my dad as a professional musician and mom literally starting and ending days with the radio as her bible, I got exposed to music as a whole package. With this as the foundation of "Mar Variations" , I can take any joint or lyric and flip it the way I would love to hear it" . Those words come from up-and-coming Soul singer Mar , and serve as the introduction to his "Mar Variations" project. With a voice as smooth as a fudge filled candy, and [...]

This is the 1st track off of Drake 's upcoming "It's Never Enough" mixtape, and what else can I say... He couldn't start any better than this. The rapper/R&B singer chose to cover a track from one of my all time favorite bands, the Atlanta ladies of TLC . The trio, though considered one the major R&B act of the 90's, hasn't been covered much as of yet. And Drake didn't pick one of those obvious Billboard Hot 100 hits from T-Boz, Left Eye and Chilli. He actually reworked the eponymous (and opening) track [...]

En tombant sur cette vidéo de Dominique Young Unique , jeune rappeuse floridienne encensée par NME et que les spécialistes considèrent déjà comme la prochaine Santigold , j'ai eu envie de m'attarder sur le cas Stevie Wonder au travers de l'un de ses plus gros "tubes", le très 80's "Part Time Lover" . Ce morceau issu de l'album "In Square Circle" (1985), qui contient d'ailleurs une autre pépite, la ballade "Overjoyed" (probablement dans mon Top 5 des morceaux du grand Stevie), a inspiré la jeune MC américaine, qui a [...]

Je n'aurais probablement pas écouté le nouvel album de Bilal si je n'avais pas intercepté, au vol, un tweet insistant de Melopheelo (oui, le seul, le vrai, l'unique Sage Po' from Boulbi), il y a de ça quelques semaines. Au risque d'en décevoir certain(e)s, je n'ai jamais été véritablement réceptive à la Soul de Bilal , si ce n'est, évidemment, l'énorme son produit par Dr Dre , "Fast Lane" , l'un des singles extrait de son premier album "1st Born Second" en 2001. Pour le reste, c'est un peu [...]

Though he was already an established songwriter in his homeland, thanks to his collaborations with fellow Canadian recording artists Glenn Lewis , Divine Brown and Ray Robinson , it wasn't until he released his very own version of Kanye West 's smash "Flashing Lights" that Colin Munroe rose to international fame. Signed to Dallas Austin 's revamped Rowdy Records , Colin has yet to release his eagerly anticipated debut ""Don't Think Less of Me" , but the musician is definitely [...]

Nous vous parlions de la genese de ce titre dont les choeurs sont assurés par un certain Justin Timberlake à la sortie du 7e opus de Sheryl Crow "100 Miles from Memphis" . En voici désormais la vidéo. Point de Justin au casting, ce qui génère, évidemment, une certaine frustration qui n'a d'égale que sa participation bien trop discrète à cette cover de Terence Trent D'Arby . Ce classique Soul si délicat, déjà merveilleuse repris par [...]

A few week after the release of his "In Between Video Series" we told you about this summer (see our related article ), New Jersey based rapper The Illz drops another hot joint, "Cover Me (I'm Going In)" . The track neatly samples the hit single by Brit Pop duo La Roux , "In For The Kill" . Listen to the track right after the jump. --- Quelques semaines après la mise en ligne de son projet "In Between Video Series" [...]