![]() ![]() No release dates have been confirmed for either as of yet. During the tour, Wright announced that she was in the process of writing a novel, and working on a third album. Wright did not perform any new material on the tour, but did live cover versions of Cherrelle's " Saturday Love" and Crystal Waters' " Gypsy Woman (She's Homeless)". ![]() In March 2008, she toured Europe with Bahamadia and Hezekiah for the "Philly Sounds" tour. Wright has toured every year since her debut album was released. Many of the tracks recorded for that album later appeared on Divorcing Neo 2 Marry Soul, which debuted at number 62 on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart in July 2005. And Your Point Is? which was due for release in 2003 on MCA Records (who also distributed her debut), before the label folded. She has released two solo albums to date: Denials Delusions and Decisions in 2002, and Divorcing Neo 2 Marry Soul in 2005. She later appeared on MTV Unplugged as a back-up singer for Jay-Z in 2001, and was featured in a Coca-Cola advert as part of the brand's "Nu Soul" campaign. Wright was brought to the attention of hip-hop group The Roots in 1998, which eventually led to her going on tour with them. You can help by converting this section, if appropriate. Those inspirations include Ray Charles, Duke Ellington, Etta James, Sarah Vaughn, Van Halen, Eddie Vedder (Pearl Jam), Rob Thomas (Matchbox 20), The Doors, The Rolling Stones and Bob Dylan, among others.This section is in list format but may read better as prose. To that end, many of her sonic influences have come from her diverse musical tastes which span decades of song. "From the second you start hearing and articulating sounds and phonics, everything is influencing you," she says. "Jaguar believes her songwriting skills are innate. Singing was my destiny, even before I was born. I proved that this is not a dream, this was not a fantasy– this is my life. It drove him insane, and now he is biggest fan because I earned his respect. "My parents wanted me to take the more traditional route…by becoming a litigator, doctor or a practitioner a professor or a psychologist," says Jaguar. Reared in the church, Jaguar's staunchly religious parents did not initially support their daughter's dream of becoming a "secular" singer.īut the R&B dynamo knew she had tapped into something powerful when she managed to convert the most unlikely of converts - her teacher mom and drug counselor father. I am finally free to do me, free to do my work."As such a profound talent, it's hard to fathom that the world may never have received Jaguar's gift of song. I don't sell anything else but me, or what I believe in or feel. "The title lets everyone know I'm divorcing the hype to marry the real. "I am truly divorcing everything from before to start fresh and new," says Jaguar, a married mother of two. ![]() Her sophomore album, Divorcing Neo 2 Marry Soul, is appropriately titled because it not only rids her of the dreaded cloak of the manufactured category [tagneo-soul, but represents her musical and personal emancipation. She is part of the Okayplayer collective.Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned, especially in the case of fiery Philadelphia chanteuse Jaguar Wright.Īs notorious for her impassioned, spine-tingling vibrato as she is for her show-stealing performance at Jay-Z's 1999 MTV Unplugged concert with The Roots, Jaguar is the quintessential soul maven. Jaguar Wright is a soul/R&B vocalist from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. ![]()
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