Word: seales
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...year-old singer is a man of mysteries, both tiny and large. He goes by Seal professionally, but his real name is Sealhenry Olumide Samuel. In person he is tall, sleekly muscular and imposingly handsome, with a clean-shaven head and sloped, piercing eyes; his cheeks, however, are rough and pocked, the result of a long-ago lupus episode (something else he prefers not to discuss). Nor is he always comfortable talking about his parents. (His mother was Nigerian and his father Brazilian; both are dead.) Seal was born in London and grew up poor...
...most mysteriously interesting thing about Seal is that despite the turmoils and tragedies of his life, he is a resolute champion of romance and an unshakable believer in the power of love. His magnificent new album, Human Being (due out from Warner Records on Nov. 17), focuses on love in all its many-splendored forms: self-love, angry love, impossible love, the start of love, the ashes of love. Seal explores the emotion and its many isotopes not in a sappy baby-won't-you-please-come-back sort of way, but with elegance and eloquence. Pop music...
Since his previous album came out in 1994, Seal has gone through two difficult breakups--one with supermodel Tyra Banks and another with a woman he won't name--and the experiences provided emotional fuel for his new CD. The latter relationship was a particularly tumultuous one. "My life and work were being destroyed by this one person," says Seal. "She was jealous beyond conception. I tried to meet that with love until I got to the point where I was up against the wall." Lovers' quarrels are the opposite of high school debates; it is only afterward that both...
...debut, Seal, focused on inventive and thoughtful dance-pop and spawned uptempo hits like Crazy and Killer. His second album, also inscrutably titled Seal, offered up intricate pop hymns, such as Kiss from a Rose and Don't Cry. The new album is not a break from his past work but a stately evolution deftly combining the throbbing power of his first album with the smart sophistication of his second. "I wanted to make a more raw record," he says. "Not as produced. I wanted to make sure that it was more open, more from the heart." Human Being...
Striving for timelessness can take time, and the recording process was a long, arduous one. Horn signed on to the project, was pushed off of it while Seal explored his options with two other producers, and then was invited back to finish the record. "[Seal] got a bit manic with the whole thing," says Horn. "He was going through a fair amount of turmoil as we started working. By the end of the record it was like having an old friend back. Taking people, calling them a star, it screws people's heads up. It did change him a little...