Joss Stone mergulha in the reggae and in the world music with new record ’Water To Your Soul’!

The dream of the prodigious British singer Joss Stone to embrace the whole world by playing in each of the more than 190 nations that exist is reflected in the album "Water To Your Soul", released on July 17. With a career that began in her teens, Joss found success on the six albums she recorded — always putting her powerful voice to work on soul and R&B ballads. On "Water To Your Soul", she does not abandon those rhythms, but gives much more attention to reggae and varied international references. I like to think of it as an album of many different sounds mixed together. The backbone is hip-hop, r&b and reggae. There are other influences, like Irish music, the Brazilian beat, American gospel music, Indian flute, Spanish flamenco, many different sounds. I tried to mix them all" — the singer explained in an interview with Rolling Stone. The result has already been approved by the Brazilian audience at her latest performances here, in which "Wake Up", "Love Me", "The Answer" (which has Brazilian inspiration, according to Joss Stone herself) and "Mollytown", all songs from the new album, were played. My father used to play Linton Kwesi Johnson (classic British reggae singer whose verses are used on the track "Harry's Symphony") when I was very young. I remember I stole two records from his collection. One was by Linton Kwesi Johnson and the other was by James Brown. In terms of male voices, I was raised on that, that poetic reggae and the screaming funk. My father also liked the Specials, which is ska. I think everyone likes reggae, don't they? It's that kind of music that makes you feel happy".