Maxwell hopes panty-throwing ladies still make babies to his sexy ‘Night’ songs
nypost.comMaxwell is still breaking off the fans with a little sumthin’ sumthin‘.The 48-year-old R&B crooner established his dominance in the music industry with his critically acclaimed debut album “Maxwell’s Urban Hang Suite.” The April 1996 Columbia release re-defined soul music, went double-platinum and earned the newcomer his first Grammy nod for “Best R&B Album.”In the years to come, Maxwell would solidify his sex-symbol status by wielding his flawless falsetto on platinum followups “Embrya” (1998), “Now” (2001) and the two-time Grammy Award-winning “BLACKsummers’night” (2009), which debuted No.
1 on the Billboard 200. His last album, 2016’s “blackSUMMERS’night” the second installment of his musical trilogy — continued the Brooklyn native’s legacy of creating majestic soul singles so sensual and sultry, the project transformed itself into the quintessential soundtrack for sex and earned Maxwell a 2017 Best R&B Song Grammy for “Lake By The Ocean.”Now Maxwell is back, hitting the road — his “The Night Tour” popped into Brooklyn’s Barclays Center on Wednesday night — and perfecting his art for seduction with the long-awaited finale to his musical trifecta “blacksummers’NIGHT,” set for release this spring.
Here the artist discusses the need to celebrate women, his Caribbean heritage and inspire fans to spend the night making babies.We did it because we love each other’s music, we wanted to be comrades and to step out into the world and celebrate all of these women, specifically black women.
We bias out here. [LOL] It’s been an amazing journey even with all the protocols that we have to go through to successfully give the people what they want.
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