

During the 2010s, he stretched out stylistically and went independent without wavering from his soul base. One of the steadiest singers and songwriters in his field, he earned 11 Grammy nominations evenly spread across a decade. Serendipity - (featuring Willie Hyn) 1.29 on iTunes 4. Additionally inspired by the contemporary likes of D'Angelo and Lauryn Hill, he applied his musical upbringing to a love for noncommercial hip-hop and refined his romantic and affable everyman style across a string of six major-label albums, four of which went either gold or platinum in the U.S. Feel the Real - (featuring Marsha Ambrosius) 1.29 on iTunes 2.

The Philadelphia-born Taalib Johnson grew up in a household that provided him with an education in '70s soul. Musiq Soulchild was among a crop of R&B artists who arrived during the 2000s with no debt to the flashy and sexually aggressive sounds that prevailed throughout the preceding decade.
