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Published: 3 January 2008

Soulchild has grown up and gone to college

PREVIEW
Musiq Soulchild
Jazz Café

MUSIQ Soulchild has a fondness for quirky album titles.
His first stab, Aijuswanaseing (I Just Want To Sing), was an sign of things to come. Later came Juslisen (Just Listen), while his fourth album, Luvanmusiq (Love and Music), confirmed the trend.
But it’s not his haphazard spelling that has helped him sell nearly four million records.
The neo-soul style that saw him become one of his label’s biggest hitmakers, has struck gold once more with Luvanmusiq.
Going straight to number one in the States since its release in March, he is now hoping it will do the same over here.
While he’s hardly a household name in the UK, he was recently nominated for three Grammies and is due to perform at the Jazz Café two weeks after the awards show. Expect to see smiles – I’m sure he’ll win.
Musiq has clearly grown up over the course of four albums, and he himself uses a school analogy to explain his progression: “I look at my previous three albums as grade school, middle school, and high school.
“Now with this new album, Luvanmusiq, it’s like I’m going off to college.”

• Musiq Soulchild plays the Jazz Café, Parkway, on February 25 and 26. £35, 0870 060 3777

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