Aloe Blacc

The career of singer, songwriter, and producer Aloe Blacc is filled with sharp creative turns, from retro-soul to dance music to pop, reflective of a diverse listening background. Despite a broad range of recordings throughout activity that dates back to the latter half of the 1990s, Aloe has consistently maintained a blue-collar everyman quality -- as enhanced by his rustic tenor voice -- with most of his writing rooted in reality yet typically feel-good and uplifting in nature. He started with underground rap recordings and first achieved commercial success with "I Need a Do...