Remember Singer Raphael Saadiq Sadly This Is What Happened To Him

Raphael Saadiq is an American singer songwriter musician 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 Ton He has also produced 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 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 He is also a co-founder of independent video game developer IllFonic which developed Friday the 13th The Game 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 1 For the album Saadiq worked with steel guitarist Robert Randolph former Earth Wind Fire keyboardist Larry Dunn Swedish-Japanese indie rock singer Yukimi Nagano of Little Dragon fame funk artist Larry Graham on the bonus cut Perfect Storm 2 and soul newcomer Taura 'Aura Jackson' Stinson

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