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K'Jon's Soul is Back, and It's Mature
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Michael Ricci
No signifier of sincerity is left unexplored in the fantasy of domesticity that is K’Jon’s “This Time”: soft, pensive piano; light, Spanish-inflected guitar; muted horns; pliant strings; and, at the song’s end, a children’s choir.
“Last night tried to get some snooze/Dreamed we was breaking up, we were through,” he sings. “When I looked around you was gone/Found that a house is really not a home/When you’re alone.”
“This Time” is the second single from K’Jon’s major-label debut, “I Get ...
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A Mature Salsa from Victor Manuelle
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Michael Ricci
A Mature Kind of Salsa, More Tender Than Tough If Victor Manuelle wanted to get half the crowd at Central Park SummerStage whooping on Sunday afternoon, he need only have performed the tiniest of gyrations with his hips. If he wanted both halves to make a ruckus, he need only have waved a Puerto Rican flag. For weeks before, the show had been plugged on the New York Latin radio station La Kalle 105.9 -- “Completamente gratis!" the commercials screamed. ...
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