Alison Moyet

Pop music may be bigger than ever, but one of its richest wellsprings, soul, has all but
evaporated. Though a few fine voices have kept the flame burning, most black American
vocalists have set their sights on rock & roll or middle-of-the-road audiences. It's mighty hard
to find any singers working in the Otis Redding tradition: raw, sweaty R&B steeped in the
polarities of sex and religious devotion. No less a dying breed is the jazz chanteu... More >