WATCH NEW VIDEO! Kindred The Family Soul feat Valerie Simpson | “A Couple Friends”
INSPIRATIONAL HUSBAND AND WIFE DUO KINDRED THE FAMILY SOUL RETURN WITH
MESSAGE-DRIVEN, TIMELESS R&B ON NEW CD A COUPLE FRIENDS
Watch New Video feat Soul Music Legend Valerie Simpson from Ashford and Simpson
Kindred The Family Soul album’s title track is a masterpiece and joins the dynamic duo with the legendary Valerie Simpson who stretches out and delivers some brilliant piano work. Fatin shares, “Aja’s verse is a tearjerker to me and so eloquently expressed. The song is special to us and to have Ms Valerie Simpson on it is the cherry on top.”
“This is the first time we’ve been able to write and record an album when I haven’t been expecting a baby or just had one!” notes Aja Dantzler. As a result, the couple had the luxury of more time, space and energy to devote to the creative process and the results are very organic, free-flowing music. Working with such front-line producers as Vidal Davis and Andre Harris (Jill Scott, Marsha Ambrosius), Anthony Bell (Jaheim, Estelle), James Poyser (John Legend, The Roots) and Steve McKie (Bilal, Jazmine Sullivan), Kindred wrote or co-wrote all the songs on the album.
“The last CD was more concept-driven and full of features,” Fatin Dantzler explains, “but this CD reminds me more of our first CD. We recorded a few songs then stopped recording for almost a year then picked up where we left off and records just started to pour out like a well. I feel growth in the record for us. It’s still the same ‘us’ but more seasoned. We’ve been together a long time and we know each other extremely well.”
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