KINGSTON, Jamaica — American singer Sailor Jane, who’s an admirer of Sade’s music, has put a reggae spin on 14 of the long-lasting singer’s greatest hits, and launched the album No Strange DUB – Sade Re-imagined.
Produced by Straightforward Star Data co-founder and Billboard charting producer Michael Goldwasser, No Strange DUB – Sade Re-Imagined was launched Friday, February 14.
“I’ve undoubtedly been an enormous fan and impressed by her works for a few years. I like that she subtly exudes class and sensuality with out doing or exhibiting an excessive amount of. Similar in her musical type. She is elegant and easy, and it interprets to timelessness and sophistication. This has been very influential to me stylistically,” Sailor Jane informed Observer On-line.
She opined that working with Goldwasser — a large within the worldwide music trade — was a continuing studying expertise.
“He’s a real skilled and absolute inventive genius. Watching him navigate the studio and work with the musicians over these few weeks was actually one thing. He has wonderful time administration abilities and was in a position to actually carry out the total potential of all tools and musicians on the desk,” she mentioned.
No Strange DUB was created in a number of sub-genres of reggae music. From infectious one-drop rhythms to traditional ska and dub beats, lovers rock, afrobeats to present dancehall sounds, the album provides followers an eclectic musical deal with.
“The vibe on the album is a sound that I conceptualized in my head a number of years earlier than approaching the venture. Throughout the recording of my final single, Into You, I had collaborated with a number of musicians from Jamaica and eventually heard the sound that I used to be searching for. That’s after I knew I had discovered the gamers for this venture,” Sailor Jane disclosed.
The singer is at present in Jamaica writing and recording unique music with a couple of native producers, with plans to launch an unique album later this 12 months.
“I launched a couple of singles in 2024 from the No Strange DUB venture. I hope to launch a number of singles that I’ve been sitting on since final 12 months in 2025. I’m prepared and have been working and we’ll see some productiveness in 2025 for positive,” she mentioned.
Songs featured on No Strange DUB – Sade Re-Imagined embrace the hits No Strange Love, Paradise, Easy Operator, Cherish the Day, Stronger than Satisfaction, Sweetest Taboo and Your Love is King.
Nigerian British singer Sade took the world by storm with the discharge of her debut album Diamond Life in 1984. The singer who has bought hundreds of thousands of data globally, has a big catalog of hits which have hit native and worldwide charts.
Considered one of her songs, By Your Facet, launched in 2000, was given a reggae remix and was successful domestically. Sade even resided in Jamaica for a number of years.
Sade received the Grammy Award for Finest New Artiste in 1986.
— Kevin Jackson
