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Raphael Saadiq
Raphael Saadiq /s?'di?k/ (born Charles Ray Wiggins; May 14, 1966) is an American singer, songwriter, musician, guitarist, and record producer.
Saadiq has been a standard bearer for "old school" R&B since his early days as a member of the multiplatinum group Tony! Toni! Toné! He also produced songs of such artists as TLC, Joss Stone, D'Angelo, Mary J.
Blige, and John Legend.He and D'Angelo were occasional members of The Ummah, a music production collective, composed of members Q-Tip and Ali Shaheed Muhammad of A Tribe Called Quest, and J Dilla of the Detroit-based group Slum Village.Saadiq's critically acclaimed album, The Way I See It, released on September 16, 2008, featuring artists Stevie Wonder, Joss Stone, and Jay-Z, received three Grammy Award Nominations and was voted Best Album on iTunes of 2008.
His fourth studio album, Stone Rollin', was released on March 25, 2011.
For the album, Saadiq worked with steel guitarist Robert Randolph; former Earth, Wind & Fire keyboardist Larry Dunn; Swedish/Japanese indie rock singer Yukimi Nagano (of Little Dragon fame); Funk legend Larry Graham (on the bonus cut Perfect Storm) plus soul newcomer Taura 'Aura Jackson' Stinson.Music critic Robert Christgau has called Saadiq the "preeminent R&B artist of the '90s".1987–99: Tony! Toni! Toné! and The UmmahAfter returning to Oakland from touring with Prince, Saadiq began his professional career as the lead vocalist and bassist in the rhythm and blues and dance trio Tony! Toni! Toné! He used the name Raphael Wiggins while in Tony! Toni! Toné!, along with his brother Dwayne Wiggins, and his cousin Timothy Christian.
In the mid-1990s, he adopted the last name Saadiq, which means "man of his word" in Arabic.
His change of surname led many to speculate that he had converted to Islam at that point; in reality, Saadiq is not a Muslim, but rather just liked the way "Saadiq" sounded and changed his last name simply to distinguish himself from and avoid potential confusion with his brother, Dwayne Wiggins.
As he confirmed by telling noted R&B writer Pete Lewis of the award-winning 'Blues & Soul' in May 2009, "I just wanted to have my own identity!"In 1995, Saadiq had his biggest solo hit to date, when "Ask of You", featured on the Higher Learning Soundtrack peaked at #19 on the Billboard Hot 100 and #2 on the R&B chart.
In 1995, Saadiq produced and performed on Otis & Shug's debut album, We Can Do Whatever.Tony! Toni! Toné! would become major R&B superstars throughout the late-1980s and 1990s.
However, after the 1996 album entitled House of Music failed to duplicate the group's previous success, Tony! Toni! Toné! went their separate ways in 1997.1999–2004: Lucy Pearl and first string of solo albumsIn 1999, Saadiq's next big project became the R&B supergroup Lucy Pearl.
He recorded the self-titled album with Dawn Robinson (En Vogue) and Ali Shaheed Muhammad (A Tribe Called Quest).
The group only lasted for one album.In 1999, he also collaborated with rapper Q-Tip on the single "Get Involved", from the animated television series The PJs.
It samples The Intruders' 1973 song "I'll Always Love My Mama" and charted at number 21 on the US Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles & Tracks.His 2000 song collaboration "Untitled (How Does It Feel)" won D'Angelo a Grammy Award for Best Male R&B Vocal Performance; it was also nominated for Grammy Award for Best R&B Song.
The song was ranked #4 on Rolling Stone's "End of Year Critics & Readers Poll" of the top singles of 2000.
D'Angelo's album Voodoo won a Grammy Award for Best R&B Album at the 2001 Grammy Awards.In 2002, Saadiq founded his own record label, Pookie Entertainment.
Among the artists on the label are Joi and Truth Hurts.
In 2002, he released his first solo album Instant Vintage, which earned him five Grammy Award nominations.
He released a two-disc live album All the Hits at the House of Blues in 2003, and his second studio album Ray Ray in 2004, both on Pookie Entertainment.2004–present: Expanded output and second string of albumsIn 2004, Saadiq produced a remix of the song "Crooked Nigga Too" by Tupac Shakur which is featured on the album Loyal To The Game.
Other artists he has collaborated with include Whitney Houston, Mary J.
Blige, The Isley Brothers, A Tribe Called Quest, Teedra Moses, The Roots, Erykah Badu, Jill Scott, Macy Gray, Angie Stone, Snoop Dogg, Devin the Dude, DJ Quik, Kelis, Q-Tip, Lil' Skeeter, Ludacris, The Bee Gees, Musiq Soulchild, Jaguar Wright, Chanté Moore, Lionel Richie, Marcus Miller, Noel Gourdin, Nappy Roots, Calvin Richardson, T-Boz from TLC, Jody Watley, Floetry, Leela James, Amp Fiddler, John Legend, Joss Stone, Young Bellz, Anthony Hamilton, Babyface, Ledisi, Goapele, Ghostface Killah, —Ginuwine, Stevie Wonder, Earth, Wind & Fire, Bilal, Chali 2na, Larry Graham, Luniz as well as many others.
In 2007, Saadiq produced Introducing Joss Stone, the third album of British soul singer Joss Stone.
According to J.
Gabriel Boylan of The New York Observer, "he's produced artists including Macy Gray, the Roots, D’Angelo, John Legend, Whitney Houston, Mary J.
Blige, and more.
With all of them he’s pushed a classic aesthetic, heavy on organic sounds and light on studio magic, deeply indebted to the past and distrustful of easy formulas."Saadiq's third solo album, The Way I See It, released on Columbia Records on September 16, 2008, available in a collector's edition box set of 7" 45 rpm singles as well as on traditional CD, was critically well-received, made several critics' 2008 best albums lists, and garnered three Grammy nominations including Best R&B Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocals (for "Never Give You Up", featuring Stevie Wonder & CJ Hilton); Best Traditional R&B Vocal Performance (for "Love That Girl") and Best R&B Album for The Way I See It.
Music from The Way I See It was featured in the following motion pictures: Madea Goes To Jail, Bride Wars, Cadillac Records, Secret Life of Bees, In Fighting (Rogue), and It's Complicated.Touring with a nine piece band, Saadiq hit the 2009 summer music festival circuit with performances at Bonnaroo, Hollywood Bowl, Outside Lands, Pori Jazz, Stockholm Jazz Festival, North Sea Jazz, Essence Music Festival, Summer Spirit Festival, and Nice Jazz Festival, Bumbershoot Music Festival and Austin City Limits.
Saadiq has been touring Europe extensively, and held a five-night residency at the House of Blues in Tokyo, Japan, in June 2009.
In 2008, Saadiq formed a new label called Velma Records, a place where he promises "people can express themselves like I did with The Way I See It...
where they can dream something up and just go with it".He produced songs for LeToya Luckett's forthcoming second album Lady Love, released August 2009.
In 2009, Saadiq produced "Please Stay" and "Love Never Changes" for Ledisi's August 2009 release "Turn Me Loose".
Saadiq also was the executive producer for an emerging group called Tha Boogie.
Tha Boogie's first EP was released on iTunes and is titled Love Tha Boogie, Vol.
1 (Steal This Sh*t).In 2009, Saadiq announced his video game development company called IllFonic.
The first video game in development by IllFonic is titled Ghetto Golf, with an expected release late in 2010.
In 2009, Saadiq teamed up Bentley Kyle Evans, Jeff Franklin, Martin Lawrence, and Trenten Gumbs to create a new sitcom called Love That Girl! starring Tatyana Ali.
Raphael is an executive producer and composer for Love That Girl!.
The show is currently in development.
In 2010, Saadiq sang as part of the chorus in the 2010 remake of "We Are the World" for Haiti.2011-present: Stone Rollin'In 2011, Saadiq was the guitarist/bandleader for the group backing Mick Jagger for Jagger's tribute performance of the Solomon Burke R&B classic, "Everybody Needs Somebody to Love" at the 53rd Grammy Awards in Los Angeles and on CBS.
The band that accompanied the performance was Saadiq's touring band called Stone Rollin.
In 2011 he and his band performed as the ESPY's house band for the night, where he performed his latest compositions.Saadiq's 2011 album Stone Rollin' was released to great critical acclaim.
"He’s always had a boyish enthusiasm for performing, and a flexible, naturally joyous voice that suggests a young Stevie Wonder," wrote Greg Kot of the Chicago Tribune, "but with his latest album, Saadiq finds a new gear.
The album and his current tour demonstrate that there’s a big difference between retro and classic, and the artist consistently finds himself on the right side of that divide." Kot ranked the album number seven in his year-end list, in which he dubbed it Saadiq's "finest achievement" and stated, "He’s always written songs steeped in soul and R&B, but now he gives them a progressive edge with roaming bass lines and haunted keyboard textures.
He’s no longer a retro stylist – he’s writing new classics." Critic Jim Derogatis called it "a stone cold gas of a party disc."In fall 2011, he performed on the fourth results show of Dancing with the Stars season 13.
In December, 2011, he performed a cover compilation of several Neil Diamond songs at the Kennedy Center Honors award ceremony.In 2012 he signed a deal with Toyota to do a TV commercial for the Toyota Prius.
In 2013 Raphael partnered with Bay Area/ Atlanta Production company EL Seven Entertainment/ Republic Records and new R&B Superstar Adrian Marcel and released his 1st promotional mixtape "Raphael Saadiq Presents Adrian Marcel 7 Days of Weak".Saadiq is a featured bass guitar player on Elton John's 2013 album, The Diving Board.
Love That Girl
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Skyy, Can You Feel Me
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Grown Folks
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Good Man
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Get Involved
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Never Give You Up
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