Soul II Soul
Cynthia Rose, Observer, The, October 1989
A mix of songs that paint pictures, with women and God driving the music and the marketing machine, have spawned a Soul II Soul empire. Cynthia Rose talks to the collective whose tunes have become the soundtrack for summer 1989
Total word count of piece: 1060
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