Calvin Richardson

   
Artist: Calvin Richardson

   Genre(s): 
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Discography:


   
 2:35 PM

   Year: 2003   
Tracks: 12

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North Carolina native Calvin Richardson is a granulose, gospel-minded urban contemporary/neo-soul vocalist and ballad maker whose influences have ranged from Sam Cooke, Bobby Womack, Donny Hathaway, and Marvin Gaye to Jodeci, K-Ci & JoJo, and R. Kelly. Like other neo-soulsters world Health Organization feature emerged in the '90s and 2000s, Richardson looks to different R&B eras for inspiration. The definitive soul of the '60s and '70s has had an wallop on his telling and writing, only so have the urban modern-day and rap of the '80s, '90s and 2000s. At times, Richardson can be roundly retro; some of his material would have been right-hand at home on an old Stax or Motown LP from R&B's pre-'80s, pre-urban modern-day, pre-hip-hop earned run average. But other times, he has a more new, hip-hop-influenced mindset. In other words, the southerner has some songs that are quite friendly to urban radio, and others that would be too old school for urban radio. Born and raised in Monroe, NC (where he was the fifth of nine-spot children), Richardson had a very musical raising -- ane that included a unfluctuating diet of R&B and African-American gospel singing. Richardson's mother light-emitting diode a local gospel group called the Willing Wonders, and he american ginseng with them systematically. When he wasn't hearing to gospels, Richardson listened to secular soul and blue funk -- and his favorites included Bobby Womack, Sam Cooke, Otis Redding, Donny Hathaway, and the Gap Band. Richardson, in fact, has cited all of those artists as early influences. North Carolina's gospel singing circumference is where, as a kid, Richardson met longtime friends Cedric "K-Ci" Hailey and his crony Joel "JoJo" Hailey, wHO went on to achieve urban modern-day stardom in the early '90s as members of the vocal grouping Jodeci; afterward, the siblings recorded for MCA as the distich K-Ci & JoJo. When Jodeci hit large, their success inspired Richardson to var. his have urban modern-day vocal chemical group Undacova (whose vocal "Love Slave" appeared on the Unexampled Jersey Drive soundtrack in 1995). Undacova (as opposed to Undercover) didn't last long, and Richardson went on to become a full-time solo creative person. His number one solo album, Country Boy, was released on Uptown/Universal in 1999; afterward that, he switched to Hollywood Records and recorded his sec solo album, 2:35 PM, which came out in 2003.