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Jamie Lidell artist page: interviews, features and/or performances archived at NPR Music
Jamie Lidell sees no boundaries between the most vintage R&B influence and a futuristic loop or techno treatment. He channels his background in electronic music to produce a neo-soul brew that touches upon the best of Otis Redding, Prince and Sly Stone.
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If the souls of Sly Stone and Prince were united in the form of a white British singer, his name would probably be Jamie Lidell. Though Lidell is likely to perform his funk jams backed by a laptop, he still has the full-throated, improvisational vocal talent and showmanship of his predecessors.
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Jamie Lidell's goal is to reinvent electronic music, to add a little soul and turn it into "music for a little living and a little loving." He has drawn comparisons to Prince, Sly and the Family Stone and Little Richard. Though classified as an electronica artist, Lidell actually ranges from funk to pop to beat boxing.
()If the souls of Sly Stone and Prince were united in the form of a white British singer, his name would probably be Jamie Lidell. Though Lidell is likely to perform his funk jams backed by a laptop, he still has the full-throated, improvisational vocal talent and showmanship of his predecessors.
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