VIDEO: Tony Bennett & Amy Winehouse – ‘Body & Soul’ ( Official Video)

The Official Video of Amy Winehouse and Tony Bennett new song titled "Body & Soul" is officially out.

R.I.P to Amy Winehouse

New Song: Adele - Rolling In The Deep

Adele's first single off of her new album, "21," is a soulful, thumping record titled "Rolling In The Deep." It's bloody brilliant. Adele brings out those golden pipes throughout and really nails the vocal from start to finish. You have got to love the feel of the record, which sounds like an ode to music of the '40's and '50's.

"21" will be released next year and judging from this single, we're in for a treat.

~Love, Kid Martian~

New Video: Fantasia – ‘I’m Doin Me’

Fantasia keeps the ball rolling with the video new single ‘I’m Doin Me’ – which premièred minutes ago on VEVO. The release is the latest to be lifted from the American Idol star’s 3rd studio album ‘Back to Me’ - which debuted at #2 Billboard 200 back in August.





It’s pretty much a given that Fantasia is ranked rather high here at That Grape Juice, yet it’s important to keep it real. That was a recession-special. No if’s, but’s, or maybe’s.

The worse part of the whole shabang is that the problem lay not with the video set nor the storyline. Instead it was the post-production. Something about the editing, lighting, and whatnot, came across distinctly cheap. Put simply, the video lacked the all-important gloss which, otherwise, would have made it that much better.

Still, the clip is cute. But is ‘cute’ enough when as of last week ‘Back to Me’ had sold just 283,000 copies? Unfortunate given how amazingly solid it is. Here’s hoping this release, along with her forthcoming tour, and VH1 reality show promo, help push the album to at least Gold status.

~Love, Kid Martian~

Adele - 21 [Official Album Cover] + Album Details

Take a look at UK singer Adele's album cover for her new album "21." The highly anticipated follow-up to her successful debut, "19," will be led by the Paul Epworth produced "Rolling In The Deep," a track Adele has described as a "dark bluesy gospel disco tune."

"I'm very excited, nervous, eager, anxious but chuffed to announce my new album," Adele states, "It's taken a while and it knocked me for six when writing it. It's different from "19", it's about the same things but in a different light. I deal with things differently now. I'm more patient, more honest, more forgiving and more aware of my own flaws, habits and principles. Something that comes with age I think. So fittingly this record is called "21." The whole reason I called my first album "19" was about cataloging what happened to me then and who I was then, like a photo album you see the progression and changes in a person throughout the years."

"21" will be released on January 24th in the UK and on February 22nd in the US/Canada

New Video: Cee-Lo Green - ‘Bright Lights Bigger City’ (Trailer)

Word Could Not Explain How I Feel About This Song/Video And It's Only The Teaser. OMG Cee-Lo Green Lady Killer Album November 9th 2010.

~Love, Kid Martian~

NEW Track: Cee-Lo Green – ‘Bright Lights, Bigger City’

Brand new track off Cee-Lo’s forthcoming album The Lady Killer, which we can all enjoy come November 9th. This, like all the other leaks we’ve heard thus far, is bloody brilliant. Funky, up-beat, soulful – everything you need. This guy is on to something massive. This album will be immense.



~Love, Kid Martian~

New Track: Ne-Yo - Know Your Name

Here is a new song from Ne-Yo. ‘Know Your Name’ is reportedly from his ‘Libra Scale’ recording sessions. Give it a listen below:



This track is a definite winner. The simple finger-snapping production is a laced with the drifting melodies, creating a song that would work well as an standout album cut. However, I don’t see this having any major single appeal.

~Love, Kid Martian~

VIDEO: The Floacist Feat Musiq Soulchild – ‘Forever’

Natalie aka The Floacist is well and truly back, here’s the video for her debut solo record featuring Music Soulchild. To Me Marsha Ambrosius Made Floerty, But Good stuff. Floetic Soul drops on November 9th. Yes, the same day as Marsha Ambrosius’ debut.

~Love,Kid Martian~

VIDEO: John Legend & The Roots – ‘I Can Write Left Handed’

With An Epic Album Just Being Released John Legend, and The Root Performed A Song Titled "I Can't Write Left Handed". The Song If Field With Emotion.....Check It Out

~Love,Kid Martian~

Melanie Fiona On BET’s ‘Rising Icons’

Melanie Fiona was the latest artist featured on BET’s ‘Rising Icons’. The singer, who is currently working on her 2nd studio album, performed several songs from her budding catalog including ‘It Kills Me’, ‘Ayo’, ‘Monday Morning’ and ‘Somebody Come Get Me’. Furthermore, Fiona used the opportunity to talk about her West Indian heritage and how it is reflected in her personality. Check out the episode below:

BET Videos

~Love,Dummie~

New Track: Chrisette Michele - I'm A Star

Chrisette Michele dishes up some brand new material with her new look entitled, “I’m A Star.” The first single comes from the upcoming third studio album, which is presently untitled, a follow-up to 2009’s successful Epiphany.

No word yet on a solid release date, but reports say Chrisette hopes to drop late fall.

~Love,Dummie~

New Track : Ronald Isley & Lauryn Hill - Close To You

OMG So For The Young Ones. When You Were Young And Was Watch "The Simpson" Whenever Marge and Homer Would Dance This Song Would Start Playing.

Well This Time It's Sung By Ronald Isley And Lauryn Hill. This Song It Truly Beautiful. It Makes Me Smile. Check It Out For Yourself.

The Song Is to Be On "Mr.Bigg" Up Coming Album Which Has Not Yet Had A Titled Nor A Release Date Announced.

~Love,Dummie~

Fantasia Change 2nd Single But What Do Think the Single Should Be?????

Fantasia has decided not to choose ‘Man of The House’ as the 2nd official single from her ‘Back To Me’ album. Instead, the R&B singer has opted to go with ‘I’m Doin’ Me’ which was produced by Chuck Harmony. ‘Back To Me’ debuted at #2 on the Billboard 200 with sales surpassing 117k units.

Personally I feel that her second single should be "The Thrill Is Gone" But Hey!

Tell Me Which Track Do You Think Should Be The Single

I'm Doing Me

The Thrill Is Gone

Man Of The House

~Love,Dummie~

NEW Track: The Foreign Exchange – ‘Maybe She’ll Dream of Me’

Taken off their new forthcoming album Authencity, which drops October 12th, ‘Maybe She’ll Dream of Me’ is produced by Nicolay & Phonte and has Zo! on the piano. This is just…Ah, just press play/download already!

Now this is what I call real music.... and makes me even more happy is that one of the artist on this track is from Detroit....Oh Yeah

~Love,Dummie~

Artist of The Week - Sam Sparro

Hi Dunmmies

I Know I'm Supper Late But It Was Kinda Hard Picking An Artist Of The Week But I Finally Got It. This Week Artist Of The Week In None Other Then Then The Amazingly Talented Sam Sparro With Song's Like Cottonmouth, Waiting For Time, And His Biggest Hit Black And Gold Sam Sparro Deserve The Title Of Artist Of The Week.

His Music Has A Mix Of Funk, Electro, Soul, and RnB. If I Had To Compare Him To Another Artist I Would Say He Remind Me Of The Parliament. His Voice Is Crazy, And His Music Is Timeless

Sally

Pocket

Cut Me Loose

~Love,Dummie~

New Video: Jazmine Sullivan – ‘Holding You Down (Goin In Circles)’

The video for Jazmine Sullivan’s ‘Holding You Down (Going In Circles)’ just premiered. The song serves as the 1st official single from her upcoming album, ‘Love Me Back’, due this fall



This was a simple video. The 90’s house party throwback scene was fun and it was great to finally see Missy after all this time with her being in hiding. Good stuff.

~Love,Dummie~

Kelly Price Returns: Letting Go Of Failure, Fear and Depression | Interview

Via: S.C
R&B music in the mid-to-late ’90s was heavily dominated by make-up to break-up songs with soft beats and smooth melodies by the likes of Babyface, Aaron Hall, Blackstreet and Dru Hill, with Keith Sweat, R. Kelly and Mariah Carey dominating the airwaves. Mention the name Kelly Price and expect to recall a string of hits and chart-topping singles.

“Friend Of Mine” (ft. Ronald Isley and R. Kelly), “You Should Have Told Me” and of course the R&B classic “Heartbreak Hotel,” with singing legend Whitney Houston and Faith Evans, are to name only a few of the great work done by the multi-talented mother.

With a new self-titled album on the way in 2010, Soul Culture recently spoke with Kelly on her four-year break from the charts, weight loss, her new album and her admiration for Diddy.
Born into a family of singers and Pentecostal preachers, Kelly [Cherelle] Price’s destiny seemed prematurely set out for her. Now, as an accomplished writer, actress, singer, songwriter, producer and philanthroper, Kelly plans to make waves in the music charts once again since 2006.

“The way I was raised, we were traditionally Christian. Both my mother and father were preachers and we were always involved within the church. So even though I had always been singing, it was still a bit of a shock to the family to hear that I’d singing R&B and not gospel or something religiously related. No one saw it coming.”

Kelly grafted from a young age, lending her vocals to independent gospel projects and demos for aspiring artists and producers at no charge. By 18, Kelly landed her first major live performance, singing backing for music legend George Michael at Madison Square Garden in New York.
Thereafter Kelly would land Billboard’s top spot multiple times with many artists, including the legendary Isley Brothers, Brandy, Brian McKnight, Sean “Diddy” Combs, LL Cool J, The Notorious B.I.G, Jay-Z, Jermaine Dupree, Whitney Houston, Eric Clapton, Gospel music legends Donnie McLurkin and Yolanda Adams and the record breaking R. Kelly.

The release of her debut album Soul of A Woman (1998) boosted her to the forefront of the music industry.

“I began singing professionally around the age of 18. And this was around the same age that all my other friends were going to college and experiencing life,” Kelly explains.

“It was crazy how it all happened because I never wanted to be up front, I was always happy being the backing singer. I sang for so many people like Aretha Franklin, Mary J Blige and Mariah Carey. It was unreal but great to have been so privileged.”

“I would have been the highest paid backing singer at the time because of the reputation I had built and the passion I had for it. Mariah called me back to tour with her on several occasions whilst I was working on other projects – I mean, I also wrote music, and so it got to a point where so many people around me were constantly trying to tell me and encourage me to go forward for myself and sing my own songs.”

Kelly recalls her time on tour with Puffy (now known as Diddy), as his Assistant Musical Director, working with artists such as Lil Kim, 112 and Faith Evans, in the height of Bad Boy’s success, all whilst working on completing her own debut album, Soul of a Woman; “I enjoyed working behind the scenes, I think I learned a lot that way, especially with on the Bad Boy Tour.”

“Working with Puffy was incredible,” she says. “I learned so much from him, and I truly believe that a big part of who I am today is due to who he was behind the scenes. True he can be tyrannical, but I believe it’s for all the right reasons. He works hard, so everything that you see on his shows like Making The Band is true. It’s like he’s a perfectionist.”

Kelly’s transition from R&B to Gospel music in 2005 may have shocked many of her fans, but Gospel has always been at the heart of Kelly’s career. “It was an easy transition for me to make, because I never really stopped singing Gospel, so the switch wasn’t strange for me. Because of my upbringing, it’s always been with me – I wouldn’t have had such a great career if it wasn’t for my background.”

“I never went away from Christianity, so when I’m not performing or recording and I’m on the road I embrace my faith. This is all I know, its part of my life; it’s who I am. And because many people have seen me go from R&B to Gospel I have gotten a lot of ridicule for it – but I try to make it clear to everyone that my music career is a job that is part of my life and I cannot change it, I cannot do one without the other. It won’t work.”

Besides her music, Kelly’s weight was big news to fans and peers across the industry.
At the beginning of her career Price broke records by reaching Billboard’s top spot twice with the same song ["Friend Of Mine"], before it ever had a music video. At the time music executives told her that although she was talented and beautiful, “no one wants to look at a fat girl or buy her records, no matter how good she sounds” – and constructed a marketing campaign in which Kelly was unseen.

This did not affect Kelly and she went on to top the charts several times with many other artists over the years. However, a year later both her mother and her mother-in-law were diagnosed with breast cancer. Sadly, Kelly lost her mother-in-law in October 1999.

“It all happened around a really difficult time for me, my mother-in-law was dying of cancer and my mother was later diagnosed with cancer and I was just in a bad place, that was spiralling down to depression,” Kelly reflects. “After speaking to my mother in law for the very last time on her deathbed, I knew I had to make a change. I re-examined my life and changed my diet.”
She adds, “The weight loss was nothing to do with my image as a recording artist – the main concern was my health. I did it for me and I think it depends on who you ask as to their opinion regarding my image. Music was given to me as a gift, a blessing, and if I can do anything to prolong this blessing and continue doing what I love for longer, then it makes sense to do so.”
Within the four years Kelly was away from the music charts she branched out, expanding her talents in writing and acting and becoming author of Inscriptions of My Heart, in which she questions the “rules” of religion that lock a lot of people out of healthy Christianity and offers a contemporary approach to having a well-rounded prosperous life led by a loving and merciful God, and has starred in the stage play of Why Did I Get Married.

And now, 12 years on since releasing her first album, Kelly describes her new album as “Soul of a Woman plus twelve years.” She laughs. “Out of all my albums, this album is most similar to my first, even though so much has happened since I released my first album. It’s almost the embodying of my 23 years before my first album, and the twelve years in between.

“I’ve lived, achieved and grown up so much. It’s all the things I couldn’t be, all the decisions I was afraid to make, and a way to free myself of my hang-ups and move forward. It was me musically deciding that I want the failure, the fear [and] the depression to stop.”

“Everything I write is from the heart, I believe that I am a writer first, and with all my albums, if you have ever lived you will find a part of yourself in Kelly, because it’s completely honest; all real emotions. There is something that someone can relate to, when you want to laugh, cry, when you feel unwanted. So many things are represented in this album that can affect everyone in the world.”

“I think ‘old school’ Kelly fans would love the new album,” she says, “because I know how they felt about the first one. When I would perform tracks from the first album, it wouldn’t matter where I was, the reaction would be incredible. So with the first track from the album, ‘I’m Tired’, it’s an honest reaction to life. I’m tired! Something that people have been afraid to say but can do it by singing along.”

When asked what was in store in the future, she told me, “In the future I would like to make another Gospel album. I would like to do something for my grandparents to listen to. I’d also like to work with a string of people; Celine Dion, Eminem, Gladis Knight, Elton John, Michael Buble and so many more that people probably wouldn’t expect.”
“I may even go back to school and study for a law degree.”

–Tolu Akisanya

~Love,Dummie~

Jazmine Sullivan ‘Love Me Back’ Tracklisting & More

Soul songstress Jazmine Sullivan is set to release her sophomore album ‘Love Me Back’ on October 5th. The tracklist for the set, as well as an impressive list of collaborators have surfaced via our good friends over at Urban Bridgez.

‘Love Me Back’ Tracklisting

1. Holding You Down (Goin’ In Circles)
2. 10 Seconds
3. Good Enough
4. Don’t Make Me Wait
5. Love You Long Time
6. Redemption
7. Excuse Me
8. U Get On My Nerves
9. Stuttering
10. In Vain
11. Famous
12. Luv Back

Producers and writers on the hotly anticipated LP include ?uestlove, Missy Elliott, Los da Mystro, Lamb, Ne-Yo & Salaam Remi. While a remix of the set’s lead single ‘Holding You Down’, featuring Mary J. Blige (and produced by Swizz Beats) is set to surface any day now. {Source}

With Fantasia and Monica having already dropped stellar efforts this year, and Ms. Sullivan readying the goods, (quality) R&B is really making a comeback. Roll on October!

I'm Still Waiting On A VIDEO

~Love,Dummie~

Dondria's First Week Sales Were Bad, But Her Future Is Good

R&B singer Dondria's first week sales for her debut album, "Dondria Vs Phatfffat," are in and she has sold a measly...(brace yourself)

9,400 COPIES

The internet sensation signed with So So Def records and worked with the likes of Jermaine Dupri, Johnta Austin, Brian Michael Cox on her debut, releasing two singles ("You're The One" and "Shawty Was Up").

I'm Personally Shocked. Because her album is a real banger. With Songs Like "Can You Help Me", "No More", and "Where Did We Go Wrong" Her Album Can Really Make A Turn For The Good. For All The Real R&B Heads You Will Love Her Album. To Me Her Album Has A Real 90's Feel To It And To Be For Real The 90's Was The Best Era For R&B. Let Support Dondria!!!!

~Love,Dummie~

Artist Of The Week - Brittany Bosco

With An Inspiration Like Billie Holiday. A Young Soul Artist By The Name Of Brittany Bosco Is Truly Someone To Look Out For. Ms. Bosco An Underground Artist That Has A Very Classy, Beautiful, And Timeless Voice. With Song's Like Lemonade ,Blues For Blue, Black And White, And It Was You, You Can Clearly Tell That Her Music Writing Skill's Are Not Of this Time. By That No I Do Not Mean Of The Future Like On Some Kid Cudi Type Stuff I Mean Like She From The Time Or Flapper Dresses, Speak Easy's And Big Bands.

"Yes I'll Love To Eat Watermelon In The Sun and Sale Lemonade

If That's What it Takes to Get Away From Here " - Lemonade by B. Bosco

Below Is A Bref Description OF Her by Her

~Love,Dummie~