Interesting article about Maxwell's upcoming album.


On his first two albums, 1996's "Maxwell's Urban Hang Suite" and 1998's "Embrya," modern R&B pioneer Maxwell used his bedroom-seductive voice and fascination with such icons as Prince and Marvin Gaye to carefully craft sensual worlds.

Q: Many of your new songs have that semi-innocent/semi-swaggering sexiness of Prince in his heyday.

A: Oh, yeah. He's the one. His shadow sort of reigns over everyone. He kicked the door wide open for so many. People like him, Sly Stone, Curtis [Mayfield], when you listen to them, it's like listening to David Bowie. You can [almost] hear him saying, "It doesn't matter who you are, what color you are, what neighborhood you came from. Your variables can add up to this if you want them to."


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http://www.calendarlive.c...26,00.html