He may not have R&B heartthrob looks but I looove Mario's voice. When he sings to me, I've been "Thinking About You" all night, I believe him. (Laughs)
This Baltimore native drew up the venetian blinds on his troubled upbringing in an MTV special not long ago, confronting his heroin-addicted mother on-camera.
When a man rolls you up a beautiful love song and laces it with his pain, his hardship, there are just no ceilings on what it can arouse in you.
D'Angelo had mastered this quality. The Virginia native and 90s neo-soul pioneer dropped his sophomore album, Voodoo, in 2000, only to be felled by a heroin addiction of his own and general industry drama.
The Soulquarians did damage on this introspective, conceptual disc and too few fans grasped it ("The Root", "One Mo' 'Gin", "Greatdayndamornin").
Voodoo is a throwback album made the way an artist used to make an LP - by immersing one's self. At Electric Lady Studios D'Angelo called forth hougans and mambos. Maybe the spirits were too much.
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