Music News - Soul/R&B artist Allen Stone begins his first New Zealand Tour Tonight
24 April 2019 - 0 Comments
Soul/R&B artist Allen Stone begins his first ever New Zealand tour tonight at Bruce Mason Centre in Auckland, with support from New Zealand's own Louis Baker.
Allen Stone's vocal timbre and melodic style echos the influence of classic R&B and soul of the 60's and 70's, his lyrics tell stories with the same depth of passion of folk artists from the same bygone era, while concurrently surpassing all pop conventions.
The New York Times recently said, his lyrics “promise honest sentiments, grooves built with physical instruments and a gospel-rooted determination to uplift ... glimmers of Al Green, Bill Withers, Curtis Mayfield, George Clinton, Prince and a bit of Sting."
2018 was a banner year for Stone which included the release of three new singles and an appearance as a guest mentor on American Idol in April. His performance of the song Unaware on American Idol led to more than 15,000 sales of the digital single and more than 5,000 album downloads in the weeks following, while Brown Eyed Lover broke into the Spotify Viral Charts and made it to #11 in the U.S. Stone's songs currently have over 50 million plays on Spotify.
Stone followed the release of Brown Eyed Lover with the Lidell produced single, Warriors in June 2018, performing the song during ABC’s broadcast of the Special Olympics opening ceremony in Seattle, backed by a 2000 member choir [watch here]. In October, he released his third single of 2018, Taste Of You ft. Jamie Lidell, which was inspired by Aretha Franklin's Say A Little Prayer.
His latest single, Naturally, was written with the impending birth of his first child in mind, Stone explains, "The inspiration to release this song comes from having my first child. In this journey that is about to commence we are choosing not to find out the sex of the child until the day of. Whichever bits this kiddo comes out with, we want he or she to arrive into a world where women are celebrated. Judged not by their physical attributes but rather the fiber of their traits. I hope the world of the future nourishes and cherishes all women.”
All of this new music is leading up to a new full-length album from Stone due later this year.
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