Sunday, March 8, 2009

Retro-soul

We went to see Raphael Saadiq on Thursday night at the Showbox near the market. What a fun show! The concert had the full-body, feel-good quality of an old motown performance. The showmanship and energy Saadiq has on stage is impressive and the crowd just loved it.

Before going solo, Raphael was one of the lead singers in Tony, Toni, Toné! (I saw them in concert -way back in 1993!), and also key member of Lucy Pearl. He actually sang one of my Lucy Pearl favs: Dance Tonight at the show. Saadiq has produced for D'Angelo, The Roots and Mary. J. Blige (among many others). He is R&B, soul, new jack swing awesome.

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