R&B/soul songstress Ledisi has enjoyed much acclaim in the past few years. Her last album, Let Love Rule (2017), was nominated for ‘Best R&B Album’ at the Grammys. Last summer, she received a rapturous reception at the Royal Albert Hall as part of the BBC Proms, delivering a tribute to Nina Simone alongside Lisa Fischer with the backing of Jules Buckley and the Metropole Orkest. Her own Nina Simone tribute, LEDISI: The Legend of Little Girl Blue, sold out its run at the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts in California last December.

Her newest single ‘Anything For You’ is a tender, doting R&B ballad. In an interview with Rolling Out magazine, she says: ‘It reminds me of the great ’90s and Prince days. This reminds me of good, old-fashioned soul music, and it reminds me of a jukebox. I hear a classic when I hear it. J.Mo (producer Jairus Mozee) is an old soul. He’s the guitarist that wrote it with me and Rex. And J.Mo is from this era so you have all these generations in one song, and it all blends nicely.’

Ledisi’s full-bodied, soulful voice is the key attraction here. Impressively, she is able to explore all the gorgeous nuances of her instrument in a way that is both effortless and tasteful.

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