- music that comes from the heart, goes straight to the heart -
“We always talk about R&B, we always talk about black music, Hip Hop, and rap, but we have left one thing out of what our music has always represented as black people and that is soul…we’re going to need as much soul as we can get”
quote from (Legendary Music Producer) - Terry Lewis
BiOGRAPHY:
One listen to SOLO’s version of Sam Cooke’s “A change is gonna come” and you get it. SOLO is SOUL. A group of three dynamic male vocalist and an upright bassist SOLO is blessed with the textures and harmonies that harkens back to the great soul acts of our past. Today they remain the music industries heir apparent to the male groups of the Motown, Chess, and Philly Soul heydays.
A true urban American dream; super producers Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis discovered the group while they sang on a New York City street corner in the SOHO district. Jam & Lewis signed SOLO to their Perspective/A&M records label and released their self-titled debut “SOLO”. Under the Executive direction of Jam & Lewis “SOLO” was one of the best albums to be released in the 90’s and was nominated for a Soul Train Music Award. Unfortunately female group TLC won the award. The album sold more than 700,000 copies, garnered two top ten singles (“Heaven” and “Where do you want me to put it”) and rocketed the group to stardom full of hardcore fans.
Dubbed the Temptations of the 90’s SOLO’s live shows are the stuff of legends. Anyone who was present at the group’s 96 Essence Festival performance would tell you how blessed they were to be packed into the standing room hot box of the Sky Lounge to hear real singers sang! The group set the music industry abuzz traveling the world by opening up for artist such as the Queen herself Aretha Franklin, R Kelly and the famous Down Low Tour, Michael Bolton, Patty Labelle, Gladys Knight, Maze and Frankie Beverly, Chaka Kahn, The Notorious BIG, and so many others.
album tracklist
01 What a wonderful world
02 Back to the streets
03 Blowin my mind
04 Cupid
05 Heaven
06 XXXtra
07 Its such a shame
08 He's not good enough
09 Another Saturday night
10 Where do you want me to put it
11 Keep it right here
12 I'm sorry
13 Under the boardwalk
14 In bed
15 (Last night I made love) Like never before
16 Prince St.
17 Holding on
18 A change gonna come
02 Back to the streets
03 Blowin my mind
04 Cupid
05 Heaven
06 XXXtra
07 Its such a shame
08 He's not good enough
09 Another Saturday night
10 Where do you want me to put it
11 Keep it right here
12 I'm sorry
13 Under the boardwalk
14 In bed
15 (Last night I made love) Like never before
16 Prince St.
17 Holding on
18 A change gonna come
