Artist: Dwele
Genre(s):
R&B: Soul
Other
Discography:
Some Kinda
Year: 2004
Tracks: 15
Rize
Year: 2004
Tracks: 17
Beware of the Bird
Year: 2003
Tracks: 19
Mixtape
Year: 2002
Tracks: 12
Neo-soul Dwele grew up on Detroit's west face, listening to soul music from Motown visionaries Stevie Wonder and Marvin Gaye as advantageously as idle words on the radiocommunication. Born Andwele Gardner, he began penning songs at the old age of ten, after his church Father was murdered outdoor his abode, and attended Cody High in Detroit. Dwele washed-out a year poring over medicine at Wayne State simply and then opted for an informal education, making music at his family patch living in Dearborn and on the job for AAA. His demonstration tape, 1998's The Rize, made waves about the Motor City, and he exhausted time collaborating with Detroit hip-hop radical Slum Village and Philadelphia rapper Bahamadia. Signed to Virgin on the forte of his songwriting and performance skills, Dwele released Discipline in mid-2003 and cemented his appeal with European audiences (he was a favorite on Gilles Peterson's influential Radio 1 program) with a tour that summer. His second base album, Some Kinda, followed in 2005.
