Of all the artists I’m featuring over these two weeks, the one I’d most like to see revived is Terence Trent D’Arby (who now records under his given name, Sananda Maitreya).
D’Arby’s debut album, Introducing the Hardline According to Terence Trent D’Arby, is a soul/pop classic that seemed poised to usher in a new superstar. But the singer-songwriter’s follow-up efforts failed to reach a wide audience, and he’s been recording in relative obscurity in the three decades since.
There was a time in 1987 when I thought Terence Trent D’Arby was just about the most exciting thing in music.
And, you know, I’m not sure I was that far off.
Introducing the Hardline According to Terence Trent D’Arby is a fabulous debut album that sounds good to this day. I don’t actually own it anymore and I haven’t listened to it in more than 20 years, but skipping through the tracks on YouTube in preparation for this blog entry, I found myself enjoying them just as much as I did back when he seemed like the second coming of Prince and Michael Jackson.
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