Ex business consultant Aloe Blacc appeared on BBC Breakfast this morning and looking very dapper in his trilby explained on the programme how being made redundant changed his whole life.
The lyrics to his new album Good Times are very moving to say the least.
Aloe Blacc Tours The UK
Aloe Blacc is now a successful soul singer songwriter who was previously known as E Nathaniel Dawkins and employed by Ernst & Young. The singer was made redundant by the firm and experienced a downturn in his life, but used this experience to reinvent himself.
With his experience on both sides of the coin, Blacc’s music describes the damaged caused when families fall on bad times during this economic crisis, “Leaves family in the streets with nothing to eat;little baby boys and girls no shoes on their feet;” are the painful lyrics he uses in one of his tracks called Life So Hard.
There is a very clean sound to this singers gritty second album Good Times, but Aloe Blacc wanted the album to be clear so he could get his message across. The album has deliberately not been over produced with the feel of Blacc’s hero Marvin Gaye.
Good Times represents romance, money, hard times and political statements which makes this album so perfect for right now.
Aloe Blacc will be touring the UK for two weeks during December starting at the HMV Institute in Birmingham on the 3rd December.
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