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Near the close of the interview, Springsteen, who says he's a fan of such younger performers as Chris Whitley and Ben Harper, asks what's worth listening to in record stores these days. You recommend the new Seal album (in fact, you give him your only copy), the sound track to the hip-hop movie Slam and rapper/singer Lauryn Hill's debut album (you point out that like him, she's a Garden State resident...
Zzzzzzzarrrrrrrzzzzzzarrrrr! The soul-rock singer Seal is mixing himself a weird-looking drink. It's a pale-green health-food shake that's not entirely dissimilar in color and consistency to what one imagines might be found growing on the side of a transatlantic ocean liner. ZZZZZarrrrr! The sound of the electric blender mixing this concoction fills Seal's roomy Manhattan hotel suite, making conversation impossible. He adds a few vitamins to the sludge. ZZZZZZZarrrrr! Finally, the shake is done. It has the quality of primordial ooze; you half expect creatures part fish, part mammal to crawl...
...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...
...second consecutive week, the Crimson won the turnover battle, collecting a fumble and forcing two late interceptions to seal...