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Omar: Town & Country Club, London

David Sinclair, The Times, 30 October 1992

IN WHAT is becoming an oddly familiar scenario, a new wave of British soul singers is offering a young, credible alternative to the over-stylised dominance of the Americans. But whatever happened to the last "new wave" of British soul? Artists such as Paul Johnson, Mica Paris and Jaki Graham seem to have disappeared.

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