R&B and soul star Raphael Saadiq will be in Cleveland on Thursday to help kick off President Barack Obama’s fall campaign in northeast Ohio.
Saadiq will be giving a free concert at the House of Blues, starting at 6 p.m. Along with a sampling of his distinctive style of R&B, he will be pumping up potential volunteers with a pep talk on Obama’s accomplishments and tips on getting out the vote.
A well-known Obama supporter, Saadiq is a former member of the multiplatinum group Tony! Toni! Toné! He has been nominated for 12 Grammy awards, winning in 2003 for Best R&B Song “Love of My Life (Ode to Hip-Hop).”
Saadiq received three Grammy nominations for his 2008 album “The Way I See It,” which featured guest artists Stevie Wonder, Joss Stone and Jay-Z. It was voted Best Album of the Year on iTunes.
This article appears in Aug 8-14, 2012.
“he will be pumping up potential volunteers with a pep talk on Obama’s accomplishments” … Well then, there won’t be much for him to talk about since Obama has accomplished nothing but failuer after failer.
This moron pixie has just proven the stereotype is true that the middle class right cannot spell if their lives depended on it…pathetic..
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