One of the most 'real' neo soul singers to emerge in the last 20 years is Ledisi Anibade Young, whose debut album in 2000 was appropriately titled 'Soulsinger'. I did a big post on her last year 'Ledisi - The Best Of ...'
She is the 'estranged' daughter of highly respected (in soul circles) singer, songwriter Larry Saunders.
Her first two albums were independent releases on Le Sun until she signed to Verve Forecast in 2007, who she has now left (after releasing 7 albums in 10 years) to release her latest, and tenth, album in Aug 2020, again appropriately titled, 'The Wild Card' on her own independent Listen Back Entertainment label.
Having already portrayed Mahalia Jackson in the 2014 movie 'Selma', it has just been announced that she has been cast to play her again in an upcoming biopic 'Remember Me: The Mahalia Jackson Story' which chronicles the period between 1956-63 when she befriended Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. That is some accolade as Mahalia Jackson is regarded as one of the world's greatest gospel singers, dubbed as 'The Queen Of Gospel', who died at a relatively young age (60) in 1972.
A new single 'Same Love', has just been released from the album
Same Love
Anything For You (The Duet)
Not on the album is a duet with PJ Morton of Anything For You.
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