Tank’s brand new album This Is How I Feel hit online and retail stores today, and we are proud to bring you this exclusive acoustic performance from the singer-songwriter, live at Atlantic Records. The “R&B General” delivers a moving performance of his touching ballad “Next Breath,” the first single off the new album.
Watch the visual above, and pick up Tank’s This Is How I Feel on iTunes or Amazon Now!
ThisisRnB TV Presents: The Acoustic Stoop with Jared Lee. The LA based singer-songwriter stopped by to lay down a quick acoustic rendition of his fan favorite cut “Hold You Down,” off his debut EP ‘Falling Through Holes.’
We are branching out a little bit with this new series, but don’t worry. If you are into other types of music besides R&B, give Jared a try, check him out at www.jaredleemusic.com and follow him on Twitter @JaredLeeMusic
In the last clip from our in-depth interview with Claude Kelly, the multi-Grammy Award nominee talks to us about his inherent need to always “chase the chills.” As he describes, and as all music lovers should know, that feeling when a song makes the hair on your arms or neck stand up. Claude describes his need to always fill that feeling as an addiction similar to drugs.
He tells us his most recent chill was during a session with X-Factor US alum Chris Rene, who, although he doesn’t have a perfect voice, connected with the perfect combination of “a voice, with emotion, and a back-story,” as he was writing a song about his son.
He continued on to talk about his role as a songwriter to bring forth that talent and emotion from artists, as he calls it “courting talent.” “A lot of it is therapy, and getting these artists to talk about stuff, and share with me stuff that will give me the feeling to write a song that represents them.” Claude also announced he was working on new music with Eve…
Check out clip above and stay tuned for much from the super talented songwriter.
During our in-depth interview with Claude Kelly we had to take a moment to discuss his work with two of music’s all-time legends, Michael Jackson and Whitney Houston. Claude spoke briefly about his biggest personal accomplishment, which was penning one of MJ’s last songs,
“He was my favorite artist of all time period, so number one for him to cut my song was crazy…I feel like I’m apart of a legacy that many people both before me and after me will never get to say they were apart of, so that’s a blessing.”
But, it was his time and personal relationship with the recently deceased Whitney Houston, that really influenced him. “She was very very supportive of my career, before anything was going on, before she had to be…For someone of that magnitude to be that down to earth to me, really blew me away, and taught me a lot about how I wanted to be and how I wanted to be perceived.”
The hit songwriter continued on to address the void in music Whitney’s passing has left, “She was a whole brand of excellent, and we’re not training them like that now…They’re not rolling them out to be icons now…”
Check out the clip above and stay tuned for more…
ThisisRnB TV recently caught up with 3x Grammy nominated songwriter Claude Kelly for an in-depth interview. In this clip Claude talks about the fragile state of R&B and Soul music today. He discusses the argument over white soul artists receiving more mainstream attention than black artists currently…and how and why this has become a trend and the new cool.
The hitmaker continues to address the importance and need for R&B and Soul music in pop culture.
“We were being taught about life with our music, if you hadn’t been heartbroken before, you had already heard about it from somebody, so when that came along you could refer to something, and that’s not there anymore… I’m not sure how it will be fixed, and That scares me… It’s almost like being black and being soulful is no longer cool, and that’s scary.”
Check out the clip above and stay tuned for more from our chat with Claude Kelly, coming soon!
ThisisRnB recently caught up with 3x Grammy nominated songwriter Claude Kelly for an in-depth interview. In this clip Claude talks about flourishing R&B singer Luke James.
“I want more people to see Luke do what he does … the more people that see him live and what he can do, they are going to be blown away. Luke can sing anybody out of the water…and he is charming, he’s a star, he has stage presence, he’s a cool dude, very humble, very nice. If all’s fair in this world, he’ll get the shot that he deserves, and he’ll be a very successful artist.”
Claude is not only a huge fan of Luke, but they have collaborated together on 3 songs for the New Orleans native’s debut album. “They are R&B records, and the focus was his voice, everyone else is trying to be slick, auto-tune it up…I was like dude just sing! It’s a melody and he is saying honest stuff… it wasn’t complicated.”
Watch as Claude co-signs Luke, and talks about their studio session. Stay tuned for more from our interview with Claude Kelly coming soon!
ThisisRnB TV recently caught up with the lovely and talented Karina Pasian for the first part of a new series with the singer/songwriter. The New York native spoke candidly about her delayed sophomore album, growing up in the industry, her buzzed about new EP “Trips to Venus Vol. 1,” the song “Perfectly Different,” working with Sammie on the remake of Brandy’s “Brokenhearted,” and what we can expect from her in the near future. Check out the clip and stay tuned for more from Karina coming soon!
In today’s dance age of R&B music, there are not many producers delivering “real R&B” and modern soul on a consistent basis. One of the few purveyors keeping the music alive is multi-Grammy winner Chuck Harmony. At the end of 2011 we were invited to meet up with Charles “Chuck Harmony” Harmon at Electric Lady Studios in Manhattan as he was working on K’naan’s new album.
The producer who was nominated for 3 awards at this past weekend’s 54th Annual Grammy Awards spoke to us about his early start as a musician and learning production, landing his first placement with Celine Dion, why he bought $300 worth of candles with his first big check, working on Ne-Yo’s new album, Chrisette Michele, K’naan and whats next for the hit-making musician.
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