“People know. My friends know, D’Angelo knows. He said to me recently ‘Everybody don’t know you as dope as you are’ and I said ‘Bro, that’s not my job’', the 50-year-old soul singer Raphael Saadiq tells tQ, the day after for producing Solange Knowles’ epic single ‘Cranes In The Sky’. “But at the end of the day, I am happy being the sleeping elephant. It’s a blessing as people get to rediscover me every single day.” listening to Raphael Saadiq is the perfect tonic should you want it. He is responsible for infectious ballads replete within cinematic big band arrangements that could easily have been lifted from Ray Charles’ Genius sessions in the late fifties. Tonally, he can switch from upbeat and joyous to pure melancholy with ease and his ageless voice, is the very definition of what Phife Dawg would call ‘smooth like butter’.

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Yet it’s the psychedelic edge to his reverb-heavy guitar and drums - clearly inspired by friend J Dilla, whose picture proudly hangs in the heart of Saadiq’s North Hollywood studio – that ensures his sound gravitates just as much towards the 21st century. Saadiq has produced some of modern soul’s most cherished masterpieces; D’Angelo’s Voodoo and Brown Sugar, The Roots’ Illadelph Halflife and Bilal’s 1st Born Second all carry his mark. Last year’s A Seat At The Table by Solange was moulded in part by him. A skilled studio musician, Saadiq also finds himself playing for the likes of Mick Jagger, Elton John and Stevie Wonder.