Tonally, he can switch from upbeat and joyous to pure melancholy with ease and his ageless voice, is the very definition of what Phife Dawg would call ‘smooth like butter’. He is responsible for infectious ballads replete within cinematic big band arrangements that could easily have been lifted from Ray Charles’ Genius sessions in the late fifties. In an age where many emerging artists will do just about everything to disconnect from their musical roots listening to Raphael Saadiq is the perfect tonic should you want it. It’s a blessing as people get to rediscover me every single day.” “But at the end of the day, I am happy being the sleeping elephant. He said to me recently ‘Everybody don’t know you as dope as you are’ and I said ‘Bro, that’s not my job’", the 50-year-old soul singer Raphael Saadiq tells tQ, the day after winning a Grammy for producing Solange Knowles’ epic single ‘Cranes In The Sky’.
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