Jaheim H. Hoagland from New Brunswick, NJ, is the
grandson of singer Victor Hoagland, aka Hoagy Lands, known well to the
Northern Soul community for his classic tune "The Next In Line"
(Laurie 1967) in particular. Lands was born to an Afro-Cuban father
and Afro-American mother of American Indian descent. His singing career
spanned the late 50s to the mid 70s.
Jaheim grew up in a New Brunswick housing project,
(176 Memorial Parkway Home). His father died when Jaheim was just
two years old. At 15 he was a three time winner of the famed Apollo theatre talent
show. Just two years after that his mother also died but he persevered
and continued winning talent shows and four years later (around 1999/2000) submitted a demo tape
to Kay Gee's (aka Kier Gist a founding member of Naughty By Nature) Divine Mill
label (distributed by Warner Brothers).
Divine Mill released his debut album "Ghetto Love" in 2001 and followed it in 2002 with "Still Ghetto". A third with a Ghetto title, "Ghetto Classics", appeared in 2006 which debuted at #1 on Billboards Top 200 album
chart. He has released a further four since making seven albums to
date, his last "Struggle Love" in 2016. Only a couple of singles have materialised since.
Soul4Real has selected a track from each of his first two albums for
release on 7" on their Jai Alai imprint: "Just In Case" from "Ghetto Love" (which gained some spins on some of the hipper
modern soul rooms on release) and "Diamond In Da Ruff" from "Still Ghetto". Both have seen previous 12" releases but
appear on a 7" for the first time.
The single is available to pre-order from Soul4Real with a release date of 14 Oct.
Click on image below for link to where you can buy from.
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