Valerie Simpson: Underexposed

WITHOUT DOUBT, Valerie Simpson is one of the most important talents to emerge this year. Her debut album, Exposed made some considerable impression on both the national and R&B charts and for me, showed some very considerable promise. Perhaps more than any other Motown female (with the exception of Gladys Knight) Valerie possesses a strong soul voice and as one writer recently remarked, she is more suited to the church than the supperclub!