My band: JONATHAN ALEXANDER: DRUMS FUMIHITO: GUITAR
Influences
THE DUKE, ELLA, SARAH, BETTY CARTER, DONNY HATHAWAY, JOHN COLTRANE, MAVRIN GAYE, MILES, PHYLLIS HYMAN, LUTHER VANDROSS, JAMES BROWN, Quincy Jones, Nancy Wilson, Aretha Frankin, Gladys Knight, Stevie Wonder, Betty Carter Rufus & Chaka khan, Amnesty, The Ohio Players, Earth, Wind and Fire, Labelle, Sylvester, Prince, Cameo, The Clark Sisters, BeBe and CeCe, Larry Levin, Whitney Houston, Anita Baker, Mica Paris, Loose Ends, Kenny Loggins, Soul2Soul, Africa Bambatta, Omar, Caron Wheeler, Lalah Hathaway, Oleta Adams, Biggie, Earl Blaize, Hanifa Walidah, Lasonya Gunter, Nedlka Prescod, Cassandra Wilson, Rachelle Ferrell, MeShell Ndegocello, Sandra St. Victor, De La Soul, Tribe Called Quest, Rasshan Patterson, Eryka Badu, Frank McComb, Q-Tip, India Arie, Jill Scott, Kurt Elling, The Roots, Conya Doss, Kim Burrell, Donnie Ledisi, Peven Everett, Ndambi, Beyonce, Cee-lo Green, JSA, Sharon Bridgforth, Marvin K. White..and more
Sounds Like
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“Sweet modern from Phillip Alexander- a singer with a smoothly commanding vocal approach that swept us in right away”.
“Phillip Alexander succeeded in finding his
very own path through the contemporary thicket
that is R&B.”
“Love you good shows the promise of a new artist and the vision of a seasoned veteran”
“funky and stimulating”
“Phillip Alexander’s music has something new,fresh and it's worth checking out”.
“an Epic complex jazzy piece which merits continual plays …. Professionally structured and goes down all sorts of directions both vocally and instrumentally..”.
“If you need your house and soul music fix Phillip Alexander’s Love you good….makes this one worth taking a listen.”
“Love You Good is that perfect blend of street savvy, lyrical content and vocal quality that makes indie soul stand apart from it's mainstream counterpart”.
“He can sing every kind of music from classic songs in 60’s style to Electro-R&B “Remarkable!!!!!”
Nurtured by the sweet soul stirrings of the church; blue lights in the basement. Phillip Alexander blends these impulses and attitudes to render songs that move—music that inspires, and motivation that takes hold. Phillip Alexander has brought together the strands of his creative life, and composed a group of seasoned and emerging musicians and musical styles to create a soul music project that is funky, jazzed out, sometimes smooth, and erotically charged to arouse sighs, chills and sweat.
Hot?. . .not merely “hot.” Original, Sexy, and Gifted . . . “hot,” certainly, but that’s just a start.
The story is familiar-- black boy from the Midwest growing up in the church discovers he can sing, and soon after is in every choir, talent show and competition in sight. The son of an accomplished studio drummer and Amnesty band co-founder; Phillip had music in his genes. Soul, funk, r& b, Deep House, with Jazz references provided the score for his upbringing in Indiana and New York. This boy can really sing.
Phillip Alexander has the genuine, unaffected emotional resonance of Donny Hathaway, and the manly sex appeal of Teddy Pendergrass, as well as contemporary style of artist like Prince, Stevie Wonder, without pretending to become a facsimile of those soul singers.— all of whom, like Phillip use every part of their bodies and souls to convey their stories of love, life, disappointment and joy. This man is an innovator. Phillip Alexander honors the inventiveness of jazz icons like Sarah Vaughn and Ella Fitzgerald, and the Duke.
Other cats are working so hard at ‘keeping it real’ and ‘keeping it gully’ that they have lost the art of storytelling, soul soothing and seduction. Refreshing as cold water on a hot day in the city, and as erotically dangerous as a handsome man in a dark bar far from home . . . .he is the real thing. Phillip Alexander has come to share the ”spot “ with new artists like Ledisi, Jill, Jaguar, Dwele, Peven Everett, Donnie and veteran-newcomer Sandra St. Victor have recently blown up with their intensity, originality and musical virtuosity.
Educated in art and design at New York’s world renowned FIT; Phiillip Alexander used the opportunity of being in the music and theatre capital to do more than win international competitions and create his own design firm while in college.
Phillip played the roles of Claridge Conrad White (Ci Ci) in Dreamgirls, and Redemption Angel in No Way Out- off-Broadway productions. As a session artist, his wide tenor range with enormous color and power has graced the projects of a variety of artists, from emergent to superstar: Eternal Sun; Michael Jackson (“They don’t really care about us”), and is a featured vocalist on the: new project by Eternal Sun —lending his distinctive style to get dancers moving in tracks like “Body movin,” “It’s like magic,” and the hit that says it all for this soon to be released album—“Time to celebrate,”
Phillip shares with us his own feelings about his art: “My way of keeping it real is being uncompromising about my artistic integrity in whatever I do, and communicating messages that motivate and encourage. I am being healed as I heal through my music; and blessed as I share my blessings. “So many have come before that feed and lifted me”—“and still more are coming up now”. “It’s a beautiful thing to be right here right now”. “Thankful and faithful and ready!”
More sounds from Phillip Alexander
Metrotrax: "Body Movin'" "This song is much too much, we can't find words to describe it, Larry
Levan would have loved it, engineering is INCREDIBLE. If that doesn't
make you dance then you have a serious problem, we nod in our cars,
hey, hey!".
-- Discostyle.com
Ibiza space 2002 Dance(release): "time to celebrate" " The vocals are uplifting and are a way of remembering all the good
things about life. Gospel love all the way in to Milk and Honey"
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