Raphael Saadiq

At 57 years old, Raphael Saadiq has this physical status:

Raphael Saadiq (born Charles Ray Wiggins; May 14, 1966) is an American singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and record producer.

He came to prominence as a member of Tony, a multinational corporation.

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In addition to his solo and group work, he has recorded songs for such artists as Joss Stone, D'Angelo, TLC, En Vogue, Kelis, Mary J. Blige, Ledisi, Whitney Houston, Solange Knowles, and John Legend. He and D'Angelo were occasional members of The Ummah, a music production group made up of members Q-Tip and Ali Shaheed Muhammad of A Tribe Called Quest, as well as J Dilla of the Detroit-based group Slum Village.

He is also a co-founder of independent video game developer IllFonic, which launched on Friday the 13th: The Game. The Way I See It, Saadiq's critically acclaimed album, which features artists Stevie Wonder, Joss Stone, and Jay-Z, received three Grammy Award nominations and was named Best Album on iTunes of 2008.

Stone Rollin's, his fourth studio album, was released on March 25, 2011.

Saadiq performed with steel guitarist Robert Randolph; former Earth, Wind & Fire keyboardist Larry Dunn; Swedish-Japanese indie rock singer Yukimi Nagano (of Little Dragon fame); and soul newcomer Taura Jackson's Stinson.

Early life

Saadiq was born in Oakland, California, and he was the second-youngest of 14 siblings. "I was makin' records before all of this, but it wasn't comin' out in the music," Saadiq said. I did it to show people that some really bad things happen in their lives, but you don't have to wear it on your sleeve."

He has been playing the bass guitar since the age of six, and he first began performing in a local gospel group at age nine. He was a member of "The Gospel Humminbirds" at the age of 12, and since then, he has been a member of a club called "The Gospel Humminbirds." Saadiq heard about tryouts in San Francisco for Sheila E.'s backing band on Prince's Parade Tour in 1984, just before his 18th birthday. He chose the term "Raphael" at the audition and had trouble remembering to respond when he heard that he was chosen to play bass in the band. "I was in Tokyo, in a stadium, singin' Erotic City," the man recalls. We were in huge venues with the best sound systems in the country; all these roadies yelled me basses; and a group of models hanging out round Prince Harry. For almost two years, the shop has served. "It was my college."

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Career

Saadiq began his career as the lead singer and bassist in the rhythm and blues and dance trio Tony, after returning to Oakland from touring with Prince.

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When in Tony, he used the term Raphael Wiggins!

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When "Ask of You," a Saadiq solo hit on the Billboard Hot 100 and #1 on the R&B chart, hit the highest solo debut to date in 1995. Saadiq produced and performed on Otis & Shug's debut album, We Can Do Anything, in 1995.

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During the late 1980s and 1990s, R&B superstars would have been making a name for themselves. However, Tony, the group's previous hits after the 1996 album titled House of Music failed to imitate the group's previous success.

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In 1997, the two families split up.

Lucy Pearl, Saadiq's next big project, was in 1999. Dawn Robinson (En Vogue) and Ali Shaheed Muhammad produced the self-titled album (A Tribe Called Quest). The band was only around for one album.

He collaborated with rapper Q-Tip on the single "Get Involved" from the animated television series The PJs back in 1999. It features The Intruders' 1973 album "I'll Always Love My Mama" and debuts at number 21 on the US Hot R&B/Hip Singles & Tracks charts.

His album "Untitled (How Does It Feel)" received the D'Angelo Award for Best Male R&B Vocal Performance in 2000; it was also nominated for the Grammy Award for Best R&B Song. The song was ranked #4 on Rolling Stone's "End of Year Critics & Readers Poll" of the top singles of 2000. At the 2001 Grammy Awards, D'Angelo's album Voodoo received the Best R&B Album award.

Saadiq founded Pookie Entertainment in 2002, which was his first record company. Joi and Truth Hurts are among the label's artists on the label. He released his first solo album Instant Vintage in 2002, earning him three Grammy Award nominations in addition to two others for his writing work on "Love of My Life (An Ode to Hip-Hop)" the following year. In 2003, he and his second studio album Ray Ray in 2004, both on Pookie Entertainment.

Saadiq released a remix of Tupac Shakur's "Crooked Nigga Too" in 2004, which is included on Tupac Shakur's album Loyal to the Game. Whitney Houston, Mary J. Blige, The Isley Brothers, Tumble Creek, Erykah Badu, Macy Gray, Stone, Noel, Devin the Dude, The Bee Gees, Musiq Soulchild, Jonathan Morgan, Samuel Jones, Jody Watson, Benjamin, Tyree, A Tribe Called Quest, John Burns, Tuli, Dreams, Tumble, Moses, Lena, Tubat, Matthew Gibson, Teel Introducing Joss Stone, the third album of British soul singer Joss Stone, was released in 2007. Macy Gray, the Roots, D'Angelo, John Legend, Whitney Houston, Mary J. Blige, and others are among the artists who have produced Macy Gray, the Roots, D'Angelo, D'Angelo, John Legend, J. Blige, and others, according to J. Gabriel Boylan of The New York Observer. "With all of them, he's pursued a classic aesthetic, heavy on natural sounds, and sheds light on studio magic, leaving him deeply indebted to the past and wary of simple formulas."

The Way I See It, Saadiq's third solo album, available on Columbia Records in a collector's edition box set of 7" 45 rpm singles as well as on traditional CD; and Best Traditional R&B Vocal Performance (for "Love That Girl") and Best R&B Album for The Way I See It; In the following motion pictures: Madea Goes To Jail, Bride Wars, Cadillac Records, The Secret Life of Bees, In Combat (Rogue), and It's Complicated.

Saadiq, a nine piece band, made it to the 2009 summer music festival circuit with appearances at Bonnaroo, Hollywood Bowl, Outside Lands, Pori Jazz, Stockholm Jazz Festival, North Sea Jazz, Essence Music Festival, Summer Spirit Festival, Bumbershoot Music Festival, and Austin City Limits. Saadiq has been touring Europe extensively and has held a five-night stay at the House of Blues in Tokyo, Japan, in June 2009. Saadiq founded Velma Records in 2008, a place where people can "express themselves like I did with The Way I See It" — where people can dream something up and then go with it."

He produced songs for LeToya Luckett's forthcoming second album, Lady Love, which was released in August 2009. "Please Stay" and "Love Never Changes" were two Saadiq's "Let Me Loose" series, which was released in 2009. Saadiq has also served as the executive producer for a new company named Tha Boogie. Love Tha Boogie, Vol. 1, is Tha Boogie's first EP and was released on iTunes. (Steal This Sh*t).

Saadiq's IllFonic video game design firm founded in 2009. Ghetto Golf, IllFonic's first video game, is scheduled to be launched in 2010, but it is not expected to be released until 2010. Bentley Kyle Evans, Jeff Franklin, Martin Lawrence, Trenten Gumbs, and Trenten Gumbs joined up in 2009 to create Love That Girl, a new sitcom. Tatyana Ali is the star of the film. Raphael is a producer and composer for Love That Girl. The show airs on TV One and premiered on January 19, 2010. In the 2010 version of "We Are the World" for Haiti, Saadiq performed "It's A Shame" in a legendary Levi's commercial and sang as part of the chorus.

Saadiq, the bandleader for Jagger's tribute to the Solomon Burke R&B classic "Everybody Has Somebody to Love" at the 53rd Grammy Awards in Los Angeles and CBS. Stone Rollin, Saadiq's touring band, accompanied the performance. In 2011, he and his band appeared as the ESPY's house band for the night, where he performed his latest compositions.

Stone Rollin', Saadiq's 2011 album, received high critical praise. "He's always had a boyish enthusiasm for performing, as well as a vivacious, naturally joyful voice that suggests a young Stevie Wonder," the Chicago Tribune's Greg Kot said. "But with his latest album, Saadiq finds a new passion." The album and his recent tour show that there is a big difference between retro and classic, and that the artist consistently finds himself on the right side of that divide. In which he dubbed it "he's always written songs steeped in soul and R&B, but now he gives them a modern edge with roaming bass lines and haunted keyboard textures," Kot said. He's no longer a retro stylist – he's writing new classics." "A stone cold gas of a party disc," critic Jim Derogatis described it as "a stone cold gas of a party disc."

He appeared on the fourth results show of Dancing with the Stars season 13. At the Kennedy Center Honors award ceremony in December 2011, he performed a cover compilation of many Neil Diamond songs.

In 2012, he signed an agreement with Toyota to produce a Toyota Prius TV commercial. Raphael Saadiq Presents Adrian Marcel 7 Days of Weak, a video production company based in Bay Area/ Atlanta, and then-new R&B musician Adrian Marcel.

Saadiq is a featured bass guitar player on Elton John's new album, The Diving Board, on Elton John.

He executive produced A Seat At The Table, Solange Knowles' album, which debuted on top of the US charts in 2016. He has appeared in Luke Cage, where he performs his songs "Good Man" and "Angel" at Harlem's Paradise.

In 2017, he appeared in The American Epic Sessions, directed by Bernard MacMahon, where he recorded the Memphis Jug Band's 1928 song "Stealin' Stealin" in the Memphis Jug Band's award-winning documentary film "Stealin' Stealin." Live on the restored first electrical sound recording device from the 1920s. "It's amazing to just look at how it's made," he said of the device itself. It just has this magical sound from the way it was designed. It's true. It's just the best sound you could ever get."

Saadiq collaborated with Mary J. Blige as a songwriter for the film Mudbound (2017), for which they both received Academy Award nominations for Best Original Song.

A Legendary Christmas, John Legend's holiday themed album, was released in 2018.

Jimmy Lee, Saadiq's fifth album, was unveiled on August 23, 2019, to critical acclaim.

On his website, he performed "Remember" during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Saadiq was listed as a collaborator on several tracks from Brent Faiyaz's album Wasteland, which debuted at number two on the Billboard 200 chart in 2022.

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