Her voice is a velvet growl that floats over every arena she performs at.
This soulful songbird with the magical voice only sings when the spirit moves her, something she hasn’t done much for the past decade.
She once sang of a force stronger than nature that keeps her will alive. Like a foreigner come to visit this strange planet of plastic ear-candy, she’s decided it’s time again to take her warm, confident voice and wrap us all in the color of love.
Fans of Sade, the sweet, sultry R&B vocalist, definitely welcomed her 2001 release with an air of delicious anticipation.
Full of promise and vitality, Lovers Rock effectively interrupted an eight-year lull
in her recording career and reestablished her presence as a cool, seductive queen of emotionally rich R&B.
Soon after its release, Sade and company sashayed across the U.S. on a three-month tour in support of the CD, recording 2002’s Lovers Live at two concert dates in California.
She is certainly a bright light in these uncertain times.
At one point on Lovers Live, Sade stops to tell a blissful audience, “I don’t know what’s happening outside, but it feels like sunshine in here.”
She sounds equally vulnerable and sensuous on tunes like “Jezebel” and “Kiss of Life.” She’s as inviting as ever on old favorites like “Somebody already broke my heart,” which flows into “Never as good as the first time.”
“Such a fine time as this, what could equal the bliss? The thrill of the first kiss- it’s never as
good as the first time.”
On Lovers Live, Sade continues to do what she does best. She lets her listeners in on the secret murmurs of her heart’s desires through her exotic charisma and that inexpressible melancholy in her delivery. When she sings, there’s something sweetly forlorn in the lonely way she wraps her golden voice around a phrase.
