After releasing her album “Sing Pray Love, Vol: Sing” in June, Kelly Price keeps up her promotional campaign with more press stops.
The R&B powerhouse sits down with Danielle Datu of UrbanBridgez.com to discuss several topics, including her friendship with fellow R&B veteran Faith Evans. She calls the “Soon As I Get Home” artist “motherly and nurturing.”
Like Mary J. Blige merged hip-hop with soul music, Price says Evans “brought a marriage of the power of gospel with the sexiness of R&B.”
With emerging on the music scene in the 90s, known to some as the ‘golden-era of R&B,’ Price says today’s R&B music is missing a few valuable elements. “Live instrumentation and just the ability to get up and sing,” said the “Friend of Mine” singer. “I feel like that with all of the technology, we’re losing the nature of music in its most authentic state.”
However, there are a few new singers that Price believes are still waving the white flag for R&B. “I really, really like Bridget Kelly, Candice Glover and Melanie Amaro,” she said.
She also cites a couple of seasoned singers, including Fantasia, John Legend and Beyoncé, who she says “gets a mention because she literally will go from being hip-hop to pop, but when she decides to, she’ll stand flat-footed and sing, too.”
Read the entire interview here.
