Jennifer Meade
Contact: SAMJAM Music and Entertainment, Samuel “BIKS” Bikai, 514-878-8195,
samuelbiks@yahoo.ca, www.myspace.com/jammeade.
Jennifer Meade is all about the positive.
The Montreal soul/R&B singer has a big, full contemporary sound that carries a message and that message is one of hope, love, faith, and building on inner strengths.
Her music has been described as inspirational R&B. Those words tend to send shivers up the backs of some radio programmers – unless of course you happen to be programming gospel music – but at a time when so much negativity abounds, perhaps an occasional injection of something a little more upbeat wouldn’t hurt us.
That being said, the lyrics aren’t the first thing that caught my attention with Meade. It was the voice.
This woman’s got a major league voice, the kind A&R guys from Stax, Motown, and Atlantic used to go crazy for: silky smooth but with a lot of muscle behind it.
Meade, whose influences include Kirk Franklin and CeCe Winans, recently released Divine Conversations Vol. I and Vol. II, a collection of more than two dozen new original songs that blend R&B, soul, hip hop, funk, gospel, and pop.
She’s described them as a series of conversations with the Holy Spirit. Some might find her music a little preachy, but preachy or not, it’s heartfelt and it’s hard to ignore what she can do to a piece of music.
