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Remember to Breathe deserves to cause a sensation. "On my record is everything I listen to," the Cleveland native says, "from a little bit of gospel, a little bit of folk, to rock and R. and B. If I listened to polka, it would be on the record too." And the mix works. Her rock numbers, like the aching Keep It a Secret and the joyful Love Trap, have edge, and they have soul. At her best, she's a bit like Juliana Hatfield with a small injection...
Albums that straddle the line between rock and R. and B. sometimes fall into the cracks. But Rebekah says that possibility never entered her mind. "I don't think about, 'Oh, are black people going to listen to this? Are white people?'" she says. "I do what I do. I know who I am. I'm not trying to be someone I'm not. As long as I'm honest, hopefully it will find a market where someone will say, 'Oh, she's just being herself...
Like Rebekah, Billie Myers has wide-ranging musical tastes. "I listen to many things," says Myers. "I love Deana Carter. Alana Davis. Radiohead." Her album is filled with moderately paced, big-hearted rock. Myers has a strong, sure sense of melody, and most of her songs make a strong impression even after just the first hearing. The chorus of the lilting A Few Words Too Many dances along, gracefully pulling the listener in. The stomping Tell Me has an Indian flavor spiced with a flute and a sitar. One of the best songs, You Send Me Flying, with its acoustic...
...year, London-based soul-rocker Pauline Taylor circulated a powerful demo tape to a number of U.S. record companies. She has still not been signed by an American label. Peter Albertelli, a spokesman for Cheeky Records, which signed Taylor in Britain, says the idea of a black woman singing rock "is intriguing to people, but then they try to find a marketing strategy, and when they look for a place to fit someone like Pauline in, it gets frightening for them." He says Taylor is rejiggering her album and "pop-sizing...
...newest soul-rockers are women. Rachid's compelling debut, Prototype (Universal), due out later this year, draws on soul, drum and bass, and even throws in a little bit of punk rock. No doubt he too will initially have some radio programmers scratching their heads as they try to figure out where he fits in. The answer: Great music fits in anywhere...