Tag: amy winehouse
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Fink: Rolling With The Punches
Fink, aka Fin Greenhall, is a musician with an impressive CV. He’s an accomplished singer, songwriter, guitarist, producer and DJ. Signed to the record label Ninjatune, Fink has built up his acoustic blues/folk music into critically successful array of albums for his hordes of fans. On a crackling phone line, Fink chats to Soul Culture’s Philip Javens…
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Fink – Perfect Darkness | Album Review
As the name suggests, Perfect Darkness takes on the chiaroscuro effects it evokes, and forms a deep thunderous catharsis with the voice of a melancholic baritone acoustic singer called Fink. Fink’s fifth album sounds like a broken man who’s torn away the passions of his heart and laid it to rest onto this CD –…
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Keri Hilson: “If you’re R&B or pop it’s almost like the sex has to be a part of it”
Keri Hilson doesn’t particularly care what you think, especially if you think she’s wrong. The 28-year-old is a regular (and not always unwitting) magnet for controversy but claims to be nonplussed by the chirping of her naysayers. “I don’t feel backlash”, she tells SoulCulture bluntly, “I rarely feel it”. Given that in the past two…
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Natalie Williams – My Oh My | Album Review
Some people may know Natalie Williams from her earlier self-written solo albums Yours Truly and Secret Garden, some may even recognise her vocals on a few underground drum’n’bass hits but what they might not know is that Natalie been in the music industry for quite a few years, having worked with the likes of Goldie,…
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Liam Bailey: “I don’t want to be famous… I want to have a pint with Liam Gallagher”
To borrow a very ’90s Americanism, Liam Bailey keeps it real. The words ‘truthfully’ and ‘honest’ surface frequently during his SoulCulture interview and no-one could accuse Liam of being anything else. There’s something so refreshingly unguarded and guileless about him it’s impossible not to feel completely at ease in his company; that and his wicked…
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Teena Marie: ‘They Don’t Sing R&B Like I Do’
“Well I can’t speak about Paloma Faith because I haven’t heard of her, but as far as comparisons to Amy Winehouse and Joss Stone are concerned… those artists are pop singers, not R&B singers; they don’t sing R&B like I do” says US soul legend Teena Marie, dismissing the UK’s two biggest white skinned soul…
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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…