It’s someone talking about their experiences. It doesn’t have anything to do with black or growing up in the church, it’s where it comes from. James Taylor is soul music to me, ’cause it’s just him talking about him. I think it’s not accurate … When someone is themselves through their music, it’s soul music. What are your thoughts on the term “neo-soul?”
When people describe the younger crop of soul singers yourself, D’Angelo your labelmate Erykah Badu, Jill Scott, they often tack on this “neo-soul” label. ’s conversation with her went a long way to confirm such claims. From song to image, India.Arie is a musician of true talent, an artist of definitive beauty and a woman of substance. Remarkable, if you consider she was also a nominee in the New Artist category, but unremarkable if you’ve taken the time to listen to her music. Her 2001 Motown debut, Acoustic Soul, excited audiences and critics alike, garnering eight Grammy nominations, including Song and Album of the Year. They defy the most common of trends because their style is purely their own.Īnd the world does take notice, as it did when Indie.Arie began stepping out last year. Their songs sing truer because they’ve searched for a higher voice. Fortunately, redemption comes by way of the artist whose relentless talent and undefiled individuality naturally buck all the formulae: Their lyrics offer more because they’ve delved deeper with soul and pen. We know how the music world suffers when plastic-wrapped, uberperformers pushing skin-thin notions of beauty and manufactured pop messages on love become the norm.
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