DARE Art Alade TO TOUR WITH SEAN KINGSTON

Dare Alade

He’s taken the risk of putting together an album with identifiable character. Away from the era of experimental materials, he’s created a full soul/R&B LP that’ll define his direction and establish him as a deserving apostle of the genre romanticized by lovers, thinkers and romantics all over the world.

And it’s beginning to appear the risk will bear quick dividends. Although the full album is still scheduled for a February 2009 release, the string of singles that have come forth, have caused us all to shower the young man with all the adulations we can muster. With ‘not the girl’ especially, Darey has won an overwhelming community of new converts. If you liked his voice and good looks, but didn’t exactly like the kind of songs he put out on his first album, then ‘not the girl’ is the song that’ll make you scream: ‘‘yeah, he found the right kind of song for his voice!’’

Dare teamed up with revered Nigerian producers Cobhams Asuquo and TY Mix to cook unDAREYted , his second solo album that’ll contain not the girl, more, with this woman, no stars and others. But that’s story for another day.

As a first in a series of upcoming tours, he’ll this week head to Southern Africa to join Jamaican-American singer Sean Kingston and Michigan-born soul star Dwele for a multi-city tour that’ll cover Zambia, Jo’Burg, Namibia, Zimbabwe, Botswana and Tanzania.

Sean Kingston

Sources close to the singer say he is the only African act on the bill; and that the deal was brokered by his US-based promoter.

‘‘Yes we’re touring with Sean Kingston this December, but that’s as much as I can say now’’, the singer told reporters in Abuja early this week.

The tour is being put together by Worldwide perspectives.

According to the singer’s manager Solomon Shonaiya, there are more tours and concerts in the offing, ‘because the dream is to build a global brand. The first Soul/R&B star from Africa to take the whole world hostage – that’s where were aiming at’.

Darey’s new album unDAREYted, the much-awaited follow up to his 2006 experimental debut From me 2 u, will hit shelves from February 2009.

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