Divine Brown

Most urban-pop music aficionados in Canada have already known for the last few years that when you need a vocalist to shut the house down, you call Divine Brown. When Brown belts out her typically tender soul music numbers, it's as clear a partnership of soul, pop and jazz as you'll hear in the clubs or on the airwaves. Her pipes must be the product of another time period, when vocal chops really mattered. With her self-titled debut, Brown makes a successful leap from slightly-below-the-radar local vocal phenomenon to full-on, ready-for-the-world soul chanteuse who after one week broke a radio record with the release of her first single, 'Old Skool Love'. 13 tracks. Universal. 2005.