![]() ![]() I don't understand the intricacies and delicacies of certain trends, nor do I feel like I should adhere to them. Maxwell's comeback comes at a time when the genre has again been shifted by forward-thinking new voices. Once dubbed the "Marvin Gaye of the '90s," Maxwell - like Erykah Badu, D'Angelo, Lauryn Hill and Jill Scott - was part of a wave of acts seen as soul revivalists with works that infused jazz, funk and African elements into R&B, birthing the new-soul genre. He's arguably earned the right to be cagey about his projects. "There's so much with it, there's documentary, video content … I think we're there." "We're just going to shut it down and put it out. ![]() Maxwell doesn't offer much, if anything, about the new album. For me, being healthy and having my voice be on point was worth more than me not meeting a commitment." It was something I kind of had to attend to because I had been slacking off on healing. "It wasn't as much of an impact as it was a story itself," he says of the resulting surgery. He was forced to cancel the 2012 trek when doctors put him on vocal rest after he developed vocal cord edema and a vocal cord hemorrhage. While working on "Summers," Maxwell announced an ambitious engagement of two-night stands in a trio of cities, including L.A., where he would have performed his entire discography. 3 in Jacksonville.But he was also derailed by a vocal injury two years ago. #MAXWELL SUMMER SOULSTICE TOUR HOW TO#“There are people like Kim Kardashian, even Beyonce, that can look at her and say, ‘Yo, she showed us how to shut it down. “She’s such an American success story,” he said of the 44-year-old entrepreneur. He said he’s working on an EP with the piano-playing sensation, and has also recorded a song with Jennifer Lopez, whom he’s known since she was a dancer on In Living Color in the early 1990s. Maxwell’s first recording post-surgery was a duet with Alicia Keys, Fire We Make. He said he’s never had vocal lessons: “I’ve been winging it since I started. I paid everyone out of pocket with the great help of Live Nation, who of course I need to pay back, which I think I did like last week,” he said, laughing. ![]() “I looked out for my band and for my crew. trek in 2011 because of vocal swelling and hemorrhaging. It’s his first tour since canceling his six-date U.S. “I think that’s why the album can come out now.”įans will hear some of those new songs during Maxwell’s two-month “Summer Soulstice” tour, which started Sunday. When you turn 40 and when you cross a decade, God shows you the truth and you just sort of have to take it and run with it, and basically make the right choices, and that’s kind of where I’m at right now,” he said. I came to realize so many good things about people that were always really there, and then so many bad things about people who really weren’t. SUMMERS, originally planned for release in 2010, will come out this year, he said. The R&B star said the experiences he’s had since coming back to music with 2009’s Grammy-winning BLACKsummers’night inspired him to release the second album in his trilogy. “I mean, it’s not my ovaries, so I can’t really plan that, but it would be great.” Hopefully getting married, having kids – the whole thing,” Maxwell said. “This year is really about the people, it’s really about focusing on putting out the music, and taking myself to another level in life. ![]()
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