Erykah Badu. “What better artist to highlight as an extension of what I am creating?” Badu recently said of LA-via-Dallas experimental-R&B performer Liv.e while premiering the latter’s debut album, ‘Couldn’t Wait To Tell You’, as part of her newly-launched Quarantine Concert Series livestream project.The common thread between the pair is plain to see.
Not only do they share an alma-mater in Dallas’ Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts, but there are similarities between the two as artists as well: both evocative songwriters, sonically adventurous producers, and distinct, idiosyncratic acts pushing at the boundaries of where their sound can go.‘Couldn’t Wait To Tell You’ follows on from Liv.e’s breakthrough.
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