R&B Singer Vedo On Fatherhood: 'I Never Understood Why People Are Just Okay With Not Being In Their Child's Life'

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R&B artists in the game, Vedo has demonstrated talent and tenacity since his debut EP 93 back in 2015. The Benton Harbor, Michigan-born and Atlanta-residing artist has unapologetically been bringing back R&B soul music with a contemporary flair that we didn’t know we needed.

And his most recent studio album, 1320, Vedo hasn’t delivered anything less.The album title marks two significant points in Vedo’s life.

In 2013, he lost his mother to lung cancer, which told ESSENCE was the “lowest I had been in my entire life.” Seven years later, in 2020, Vedo’s daughter Kayden was born which he said helped him “come out of that dark place.”Speaking on the years following his mother’s death he said, “I just didn’t really care about anything.