Raphael Saadiq
Neo soul, Musical Artist
1966 –
Who is Raphael Saadiq?
Raphael Saadiq is an American singer, songwriter, musician, guitarist, and record producer. Saadiq has been a standard bearer for "old school" R&B since his early days as a member of the multiplatinum group Tony! Toni! Toné! He also produced songs of such artists as TLC, Joss Stone, D'Angelo, Mary J. Blige, and John Legend.
He and D'Angelo were occasional members of The Ummah, a music production collective, composed of members Q-Tip and Ali Shaheed Muhammad of A Tribe Called Quest, and J Dilla of the Detroit-based group Slum Village.
Saadiq's critically acclaimed album, The Way I See It, released on September 16, 2008, featuring artists Stevie Wonder, Joss Stone, and Jay-Z, received three Grammy Award Nominations and was voted Best Album on iTunes of 2008. His fourth studio album, Stone Rollin', was released on March 25, 2011. For the album, Saadiq worked with steel guitarist Robert Randolph; former Earth, Wind & Fire keyboardist Larry Dunn; Swedish/Japanese indie rock singer Yukimi Nagano; Funk legend Larry Graham plus soul newcomer Taura 'Aura Jackson' Stinson.
Music critic Robert Christgau has called Saadiq the "preeminent R&B artist of the '90s".
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- Born
- May 14, 1966
Oakland - Also known as
- Raphael Wiggins
- Charlie Ray Wiggins
- Saadiq, Raphael
- Ray Ray
- Raphael Saddiq
- Saddiq, Raphael
- Charles Ray Wiggins
- Siblings
- Ethnicity
- African American
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Lived in
- Oakland
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on July 23, 2013
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