![]() ![]() Blige and R&B/rap-roots mother Millie Jackson as well as Ella Fitzgerald and Nina Simone. The results spins a "fo' real" autobiographical tint (helped along by salty language on the uncensored version of the album), moving some to drawing comparisons to her contemporary Mary J. With production by members of the Roots, James Poyser, Richard Nichols, Scott Storch, Pino Palladino, Larry Gold, and Vikter Duplaix, the album is a provocative brew of gut-wrenching soul and incisive, life-influenced lyrics. In a kind of homage to the old-school, Wright covers fellow Philly singer Patti LaBelle's hit "Love, Need and Want You" on her debut album, Denials Delusions and Decisions, which was issued by Motive/MCA on January 29, 2002. Her energetic stage shows garnered favorable write-ups in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Newsweek, and Rolling Stone. Around February 2002, she began appearing in a national TV ad for Coca Cola. Wright earned rave reviews for her background vocal stint at Jay-Z' MTV Unplugged appearance during December 2001. Those inspirations include Ray Charles, Duke Ellington, Etta James, Sarah Vaughn, Van Halen, Eddie Vedder (Pearl Jam), Rob Thomas (Matchbox 20), The Doors, The Rolling Stones and Bob Dylan, among others.Philadelphia-based singer/songwriter Jaguar Wright's name can be added to the list of such Philly-based neo-soul talents as Grammy award-winning rap band The Roots and multi-platinum hitmakers Jill Scott and Musiq Soulchild. To that end, many of her sonic influences have come from her diverse musical tastes which span decades of song. "From the second you start hearing and articulating sounds and phonics, everything is influencing you," she says. "Jaguar believes her songwriting skills are innate. Singing was my destiny, even before I was born. I proved that this is not a dream, this was not a fantasy– this is my life. It drove him insane, and now he is biggest fan because I earned his respect. "My parents wanted me to take the more traditional route…by becoming a litigator, doctor or a practitioner a professor or a psychologist," says Jaguar. ![]() Reared in the church, Jaguar's staunchly religious parents did not initially support their daughter's dream of becoming a "secular" singer.īut the R&B dynamo knew she had tapped into something powerful when she managed to convert the most unlikely of converts - her teacher mom and drug counselor father. I am finally free to do me, free to do my work."As such a profound talent, it's hard to fathom that the world may never have received Jaguar's gift of song. I don't sell anything else but me, or what I believe in or feel. ![]() "The title lets everyone know I'm divorcing the hype to marry the real. "I am truly divorcing everything from before to start fresh and new," says Jaguar, a married mother of two. Her sophomore album, Divorcing Neo 2 Marry Soul, is appropriately titled because it not only rids her of the dreaded cloak of the manufactured category [tagneo-soul, but represents her musical and personal emancipation. She is part of the Okayplayer collective.Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned, especially in the case of fiery Philadelphia chanteuse Jaguar Wright.Īs notorious for her impassioned, spine-tingling vibrato as she is for her show-stealing performance at Jay-Z's 1999 MTV Unplugged concert with The Roots, Jaguar is the quintessential soul maven. ![]() Jaguar Wright is a soul/R&B vocalist from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. ![]()
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