Artist: Jonathan Butler
Genre(s):
R&B: Soul
funk
Discography:
Mix Album
Year: 2006
Tracks: 14
The Source
Year: 2001
Tracks: 14
Head to Head
Year: 1994
Tracks: 13
Jonathan Butler
Year: 1990
Tracks: 16
More Than Friends
Year: 1988
Tracks: 12
Introducing Jonathan Butler
Year: 1986
Tracks: 10
The Best of Jonathan Butler
Year:
Tracks: 12
Do You Love Me ?
Year:
Tracks: 7
South African expatriate Jonathan Butler isn't actually a malarky artist, merely his laid-back, slightly jazz-tinged approach to R&B/pop has earned the Butler has enjoyed a following since the previous '70s, although he reached his commercial tip in the late '80s, and he continues to spell and record in the twenty-first c. Born in Cape Town, South Africa, in October 1961, Butler was only a child when he started singing and playing acoustic guitar. Butler, world Health Organization was the youngest of about 12 children, captive a variety show of music when he was a kid. He was an admirer of South African stars like singer Miriam Makeba, only he was as well hip to the American someone and malarky artists world Health Organization lived thousands of miles by in the United States. Stevie Wonder became a major influence, and so did former-hard George Benson.
Sadly, Butler conditioned about the horrors of South Africa's anti-Semite apartheid torah at an early age; when he was development up, South Africa had an tyrannous system of racial segregation that was quite comparable to the jim crowing pentateuch that plagued the southerly U.S. until the early '60s. Apartheid (which, thankfully, has since been abolished) was the national of some of Butler's '80s recordings. Although he was never a hard-core protest singer à la Gil Scott-Heron, Peter Tosh, or Bob Marley, he wrote some antiapartheid songs here and at that place. Butler, world Health Organization radius Afrikaans before comme il faut fluent in English, was a teenager when British producer Clive Calder signed him to the London-based Jive Records in 1977; Introducing Jonathan Butler, his largely instrumental debut album, was released that year and employed Bob Cranshaw (world Health Organization is best known for his long association with Sonny Rollins) on basso. At the time, Butler was often compared to Benson, a man world Health Organization, like Butler, has been praised for both his singing and his guitar playing. It wasn't long earlier the adolescent Butler north Korean won a Sarie Award, which is the South African combining weight of an American Grammy or a Canadian Juno Award.
Only Butler didn't continue in South Africa much yearner; in the early '80s, he at large from apartheid and affected to England (where Jive's main position was located, and where Butler remained for 17 days). Butler retained a loyal following in the '80s and '90s, not only in his aboriginal South Africa, only as well, in the U.S. and Europe. One of his biggest releases came in 1987, when Jive released a self-titled album that contained a hit report of the Staple Singers' "If You're Ready (Descend With Me)" (which ground him acting a duet with British urban contemporary singer Ruby Turner). And Butler's succeeding Jive album, 1988's More Than Friends, was likewise a prominent marketer; that CD gave us the major hits "Lies" (which was nominated for a Grammy) and "Sarah, Sarah." Butler continued to record for Jive in the early '90s; then, in the late '90s and early 2000s, he provided trey albums for N-Coded Music: 1997's Do You Love Me?, 1999's Tarradiddle of Life, and 2000's The Source. After that, Butler (world Health Organization turned 40 in October 2001) left N-Coded and stirred to Warner Bros., which released Surrender in June 2002.
