Omar: For Pleasure (RCA)
Amy Linden, Request, August 1995
AMERICA MAY have invented it, but over the past few years the most intriguing R&B has come out of England. From the Young Disciples, Loose Ends, and Geoffrey Williams to such underappreciated divas as Mica Paris and Shara Nelson, the British have been making sweet soul music more concerned with groovability than commercialism.
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