The title says it all! Here's a
link to an article from a blog called
Brother Jesse Blog. And here's a choice section in my opinion
:
BJ: Now, I also read, in your bio, that you didn’t stop working, you
really more so started to focus on your solo work. Please talk about
some of things you were able to accomplish within that time period.
SP: In 1996, the group stopped recording albums and I still was
creating music and I didn’t know what to do with it. So, in essence, I
just played some music, some experimental music, for my record label and
they liked it and they released it as a solo album called Speech.
It was very experimental. I was starting to sing, a lot . Going though
the various emotional roller coasters that I was explaining earlier, me
singing started to feel more soothing to my conscious and to my spirit.
At the same time, that type of style was, to some extent sort of the
rebirth of neo soul. But, the label was sort of starting to self
destruct. EMI was starting to go through a bunch of changes and, long
story short, it didn’t do well in the United States. So, I was left
basically with trying to determine what should I do with my newfound, in
a sense, career and what should happen but God really blessed me in
that the same album that didn’t do well in the States was doing
extremely well in Japan. It was the number record for about seven weeks
straight and I decided , of course, to go over there and start to tour,
start to see what was going on. When I got there, it was just an amazing
reception. That became ‘home” for me, musically, not physically for
about five years that would follow and I would have Number 1 hit
records or Top Ten hit records for the next four records that I
produced.
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