Ruby Turner

Calvin Richardson

Calvin Richardson was a major part of R&B history, when he performed and recorded major albums with R&B boy band Jodeci. Calvin Richardson says. “The K-Ci session was like a re-union we were in a group together at one point before the Jodeci years. Chico is very talented so I really enjoyed working with him. Monifah took a little more effort to make that happen that than the rest but it turned out great, I’m glad we did it”

Ruby Turner has done a lot in her time as an British R&B/Soul diva and artist. She has worked and recorded with many musician. Though, for Ruby Turner it all started in Jamaica as at age nine she moved with her family to Birmingham. “(laughs) It was such a long time ago my love”, she says on the matter. “Yes, it was a bit of a culture shock but in time, how can I say? It was an adventure, it really was just that. I was just as excited as I was afraid, you know?"

Koop

Alison Crockett

Alison Crockett is getting us ready for her new album Bare, she says, “I grew up listening to a lot of music and studied a lot of different music. Things just come out and I just try to see if things work,” regarding her music listening choices and musical creativity.

Koop consist of Stockholm based musicians, Magnus Zingmark and Oscar Simonsson. They came to our attention with Waltz For Koop, however, in two thousand and six they return with a new album called Koop Islands, released through; !K7 Records. Koop Islands features vocalists Ane Brun, Yukimi Nagando, Earl Zinger and Mikael Sundin.

Strange Fruit Project

Saidah Baba Talibah

“I love Toronto for its multiculturalism. There’s nowhere, that I know of, where you can travel the world in one city. I know it made an impact on my music, what I hear and what I create” Says Saidah Baba Talibah, born to a Mother who is a jazz CA singer, Salome Bey, music runs in her family, and she has been doing arts for many years” she says, “I sing, dance, and play piano, act, and paint/create art”

Myone, Myth and Symbolyc One (S1), makes up The Strange Fruit Project. Three emcees from Waco, Texas joined Soulisms for a interview in conjunction with the groups latest album, The Healing. “We formed the group around the year of 2001. Me and S1 were in a group called Symbolic Elementz, while Myone was a solo artist we were working with on several collaborations”, says Myth.

Soulisms 2008