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 Joss Stone Wants To Look Christina | Type: Internet Article |
| | Joss Stone: A new face for old-school soul | Apr 29, 2004 | by Sonia Murray
Summary:
An article about Joss Stone. Christina mentioned.
For that full-fledged introduction, Stone may want to look to the similarly preternaturally mature Christina Aguilera. But only for song selection. For everything else, Franklin should still do just fine.
Read on for the whole article. |
Joss Stone looks like she should be giving Britney Spears some competition, but she sounds like she has Aretha Franklin in her sights.
In fact, it was a TV commercial for one of the queen of soul's greatest-hits CDs that made her start seriously considering music. (Her mom got her the album for Christmas.) And it was her performance of the Franklin classic "(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman" that earned her a place on a British precursor to "American Idol," "Star for a Night."
She won with a version of disco queen Donna Summer's "On the Radio" - a song she is quick to say wasn't her choice. But producers the Boilerhouse Boys saw her, and soon the singer born Joscelyn Stoker was on her way to New York to sign with S-Curve Records.
"In a way," Stone told People magazine, "soul found me."
Then, one could say, it did some remarkable nurturing. Her label president sent her to Miami to write with R&B's legendary "Clean Up Woman" Betty Wright. The plan was to create an album of original work, but when they heard what she could do with Carla Thomas' "I've Fallen in Love With You," they skipped to Plan C: cover music from comparable artists such as the Isley Brothers ("For the Love of You"), Joe Simon ("The Chokin' Kind") and, of course, Franklin ("All the King's Horses").
The result is "The Soul Sessions," the bulk of which was recorded in four days with '70s musicians.
Not exactly the usual formula for getting airplay in 2004. But neither was Norah Jones' debut. And in very much the same way - slowly, surely and initially by word of mouth - Stone's September release is building a following.
Lately, she's had some high-profile help. She was the sole featured artist at Tracks magazine's launch party in New York. And VH1 not only included her "Fell in Love With a Boy" in its video rotation, it invited her to perform on a recent "Divas" special.
To her credit, the throaty, powerful singer did not have to resort to oft-used arm theatrics (think Mariah Carey) to deliver the Gladys Knight tunes she sang on the special.
"Joss Stone is great," said Patti LaBelle, also featured on "Divas." "She has a great voice, a strong voice, and it's unbelievable that she's only 17 years old and already has this amazing voice."
"When you hear her record, you're like, 'Is that voice for real?' " said Alan Light, editor in chief of Tracks. "You know, you can do a lot, fix a lot, in the studio. But she does not disappoint live."
But Stone isn't an unqualified star yet. As Light points out, "Soul Sessions" was about "re-creating a certain mood, a certain sound. This isn't the thing that's going to be her 3 million-seller. This is her calling card, the setup, until she comes back for real in the fall."
For that full-fledged introduction, Stone may want to look to the similarly preternaturally mature Christina Aguilera. But only for song selection. For everything else, Franklin should still do just fine.
"When you hear her record, you're like, 'Is that voice for real?' " said Alan Light, editor in chief of Tracks. |
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