Category: Music

  • Interview: ROBERT GLASPER

    When Robert Glasper’s Trio hit London town for a sold-out gig towards the end of last year, we were wowed. Now that he’s due back next month to play keys for Q-Tip’s show at The Roundhouse (March 14th – tickets here), we just had to catch up with the high-spirited 30-year-old jazz pianist.

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  • Interview: PETER HADAR

    With Valentine’s Day looming, what better time to have a long conversation over a green tea about Love? Pondering if there’s still space for romantic sentimentality in today’s ‘Do You’ society, SoulCulture caught up with Peter Hadar – a soulful New Yorker on a mission to make innovation mainstream. Bring on experimental music and creative…

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  • Interview: ERIC BENET

    “It’s 8pm and I’ve been talking ALL day. But you know what; I love my job so I’m grateful everyone wants to talk to me…” Eric Benét says, laughing warmly from New York. I’ve just rushed home myself from a late night showcase in London, which makes it a haggard 1am call for me. Though…

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  • Nneka: It’s Not About Entertainment

    There is something strikingly confident yet vulnerable about Nneka. Born in Nigeria on Christmas Eve 1981, the singer moved to Germany in 2000 for reasons she is more than hesitant to disclose. She completed a degree there last year in Anthropology and Archaeology – subjects she chose out of “the urge just to study something……

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  • Interview: CHAKA KHAN

    In 1999, Chaka Khan‘s socially responsible propensity compelled her to found an organisation in support of “women and children at risk”, particularly those with autism, due the sense of loss and confusion she experienced when her nephew was diagnosed with autism around that time. So began the Chaka Khan Foundation. “[Autism] was sort of new…

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  • Sweet Spot: Entroducing

    Sweet whats? Sweet spots, those moments, those glorious moments in records that only you love for (Minnie Ripperton) reasons specific to you. Pharrell Williams of N.E.R.D., The Neptunes and his own fame spoke of such moments on Gilles Peterson’s BBC Radio 1 show, Worldwide, back in July of 2006. For him, it was the matching…

  • Jesse Boykins iii

    “I had this image of being with a woman who was upset with me because I sat around and recorded all day. That’s how it originated – then we built on it, adding that she was also mad I sold pantyhose as my side-hustle.

  • Interview: VAN HUNT

    Definition: Other.

  • Interview: SA-RA CREATIVE PARTNERS

    Style and Savvy

  • Interview: ROBIN THICKE

    ‘The industry doesn’t determine the art, art determines the industry’