D'Angelo: "I Found My Smile Again" Print
Tuesday, 07 October 2008 05:21

On September 30, R&B-soul singer-songwriter D'Angelo returned with a new single "I Found My Smile Again." The track was released exclusively through iTunes.

 

True to D'Angelo's style, it is sprinkled with hints of hip hop, funk and jazz and layered with some of the most charismatic R&B vocal styling.

 

D'Angelo was one of the founding fathers of R&B soul movement of the mid- to late '90s, which took classic R&B fused it with new age hip-hop soul. D'Angelo's debut album, "Brown Sugar" earned him significant critical acclaim from the likes of Rolling Stone Magazine who proclaimed, "D'Angelo keeps moving forward even when he's looking in the rearview mirror. Like his fellow retrolutionaries Me'Shell NdegeOcello, Joi, Omar and Dionne Farris, he's shattering the conventional definition of black music." The album's double platinum success triggered extensive touring and soundtrack recordings for films like Space Jam, Get On The Bus, Down In The Delta, and Scream 2; and a duet with Erykah Badu for the "Marvin Is 60:  A Tribute Album." 

 

D'Angelo is currently putting the finishing touches on the next chapter in his book of musical fusion with his third solo offering, which is slated for release in early 2009 through the RCA Music Group and J Records.