AnilD'Angelo and the Demons of the New Minstrel Movement
Moni, I love a lot of those artists (and Paul, Jamie Lidell is definitely soul!), but I think the aspiration I was trying to articulate is something broader. A friend of mine years ago talked about D'Angelo being the "Great Black Hope", someone along the lines of Michael or Prince who could transcend the boundaries of the genre and be a true phenomenon.
As much as I like a lot of the artists you guys have named, they weren't headed on that trajectory. Apparently, none of these folks were.
