For many years, there has been a glut of slick, soulless R&B and hip-hop where talent is obscured by the canned packaging. Members of three bands who broke from that stale scene – En Vogue, Tony! Toni! Toné!, and A Tribe Called Quest – have formed the alter ego Lucy Pearl. With rock star makeovers gracing the cover and good press, you'd expect some cross-bred, innovative results. But the new hip-hop, soul, rock, and R&B adventures on Lucy Pearl are buried in the last third of the album. Until then, Dawn Robinson's rock-hard vocals, Raphael Saadiq's… read more
For many years, there has been a glut of slick, soulless R&B and hip-hop where talent is obscured by the canned packaging. Members of three bands… read more
For many years, there has been a glut of slick, soulless R&B and hip-hop where talent is obscured by the canned packaging. Members of three bands who broke from that stale scene &nda… read more
Lucy Pearl was an R&B supergroup formed in 1999 as the idea of former Tony! Toni! Toné! member Raphael Saadiq. The other members of Lucy Pearl were Dawn Robinson (En Vogue) and Ali Shaheed Muhammad (A Tribe Called Quest).They released their self-titled debut album Lucy Pearl in 2000. After two singles, "Dance Tonight" and "Dont Mess with My Man", Dawn Robinson left and was replaced by Joi. The new line-up released the track "Without You". The group split up shortly after, releasing no other material.
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