Musiq SoulChild
Wed Dec 26, 7:00 PM - Wed Dec 26, 9:00 PM

Musiq Soulchild is a hip-hop soul artist, born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He built a reputation for being musically gifted, beat boxing for MC’s, free styling on the open-mic circuit or just performing acapela for strangers on the streets. Deeply inspired by the R&B/Soul sound of the 70’s he uses the name “Soulchild” as a way to show respect and admiration to his biggest musical influences such as Stevie Wonder, Donny Hathaway, Marvin Gaye and many others. In September 2017, he released his 8th studio album and first 24 track double album entitled “Feel The Real” leading with the new hit single “Start Over”. The album peaked and was nominated for Soulchild’s 13th Grammy Nomination.

Life on Earth, an album executive produced by multi-instrumentalist Warryn Campbell (Kanye West, Alicia Keys, Mary Mary, and DJ Quik), Musiq’s 7th studio album was a boundless evolution of an artist who for nearly 20 years has made a career out of confounding his critics while turning on followers to one of the most effortlessly smooth and adaptable voices of his generation. With a string of awards from Billboard, BET, the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers and an impressive 13 Grammy nominations under his belt, the multi-platinum Musiq Soulchild has always strived for musical progression. After the public was all too ready to stamp the singer as the next big neo soul act following the immense success of his bouncy, omnipresent 2000 debut single “Just Friends (Sunny)” and its powerful follow-up ballad “Love”—which has since become a go-to millennial wedding anthem—Musiq flipped the proverbial script. He delivered a gorgeous 2002 cover of the 1968 Beatles’ pop-rock classic “Something,” showing off an understated range that managed to avoid look-at-me gimmickry.

Musiq proudly displayed his reverence for old school hip-hop on 2007’s body-moving, De La Soul sampled “B.U.D.D.Y.” Even the guitar rock god himself, Carlos Santana, recruited Musiq Soulchild to appear on the stunning Latin-infused single “Nothing At All.” From his 2011 work with jazz saxophonist Kirk Whalum on the bluesy “We’re Still Friends” to the ambitious 9INE, his bold 2013 reggae duet album with vocal powerhouse Syleena Johnson, the unpredi