One of my most favorite songs by Seal is “Kiss From A Rose”. I definitely wasn’t the only one who loved that song, as he ended up with a Grammy from that CD entitled Seal II, which included the songs “Don’t Cry” and “Prayer for the Dying.” I still have it to this day, it’s one of those CD’s that the kids aren’t allowed to touch, a sworn-off-from-tiny-fingers CD if you will. It’s been 14 years and I still cherish every single note. There is something about his voice, so different, so strong yet so incredibly romantic and tender. He can reach right into you and grab you by the heartstrings with his voice, with his words. I am so happy to be a part, albeit a small part, of helping to promote his newest CD, just released November 11th. His one-of-a-kind voice has taken some truly fabulous classics of old, paired up with a one-of-a-kind producer and released a spectacular one-of-a-kind creation as only Seal can.
Each hand picked by Seal and his producer, renowned music maestro David Foster, SOUL is comprised of eleven classic soul songs – chosen from an era when soul music vividly captured emotion, drama and romance – such as Sam Cooke’s “A Change Is Gonna Come”, Ben E. King’s “Stand By Me”, and Ann Pebbles’ “I Can’t Stand The Rain” to Harold Melvin And The Blue Notes’ “If You Don’t Know Me By Now” and Otis Redding’s “I’ve Been Loving You Too Long”, video shown below.
You can purchase SOUL at any music retailer, at iTunes, Amazon or directly from Seal at http://seal.warnerreprise.com.
Are you a huge fan of Seal? Add him as a friend to your Myspace, become a fan on Facebook, or send a quick shout out at Twitter. Seal is also hosting an online Karaoke video contest where you can win 2 tickets to see him perform live!
If that’s not enough Seal for you, watch his videos and listen to more of his music on Seal’s Official YouTube channel where he has this songs available:
Change Is Gonna Come
I’ve Been Loving You
It’s A Man’s Man’s Man’s World
Win it! – Has Now Ended
Want a chance to win a copy of Soul, along with these CUTEiPod Retro Mini Speakers? The kind folks at Delight.com want you to enjoy more SOUL on your iPod! From their website:
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To win, please leave a comment to this post telling me your favorite Seal song (1 entry). For extra entries (please leave a comment for each one you choose to do with a valid email address!)
- Blog about Seal’s new CD, SOUL, linking to this post and giveaway, and post a comment with your exact blog entry’s link. (5 entries)
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- Visit Seal’s blog and comment on his posts by clicking the title link, and comment about his posts, but also add “Lisa at Crazy Adventures in Parenting sent me!” Please come back here and comment with each post you visit. (2 entries for each comment)
- Leave me a comment in some of my other posts, and link back here with each blog post you visited and commented on! (1 entry for each comment)
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Winner will be chosen using Random.org. Contest ends Friday, November 21st, at 9pm CST.
This CD definitely receives our “Crazy Family of 8” Stamp of approval. Thank you One2OneNetwork for the opportunity to review this fabulous CD and Delight.com for this giveaway!