Joy Denalane - Born and Raised
Recently I discovered Joy Denalane - a solo female artist who sounds like what you might get if you combined the sounds of Jill Scott and Amy Winehouse.
Her album 'Born and Raised' is plenty soulful and really varied. The opener is an urban hip hop effort featuring Lupe Fiasco yet there are tracks with that 60's sound that were written well before Winehouse took it mainstream (The album was released in '06).Maybe this one just passed me by but I've never heard of her before and I have no idea why. It's an excellent album.