It’s that voice. That sweetly roughened twang of Candi Staton’s has captivated a new generation of music lovers just as it did when she first oooed and ahhed onto the music scene as a soul siren in the `70s. A sample of that voice distinguishes the American Triple A #1 radio smash “Kandi” by British rock band, One EskimO. The tune adroitly fetches the hook of Staton’s 1971 hit “He Called Me Baby” to nail the delicious groove. “Kandi is beautiful” wrote a Los Angeles Times magazine scribe, “…catchy, ambient pop” wrote a Billboard magazine muse, and The Lefsetz Letter declared it: “A track so in the pocket that your body turned into Gumby, you were bending in places where angles were never created, you were infected with sound.” Another Staton staple that has infected a generation is her club classic “You Got the Love” which was a UK Top Ten hit in 1991, 1997 and again in 2006 with various remixes – surely this is worthy of a Guinness Book of World Records entry? In the last couple of years, two young British pop stars have paid homage to the song and Staton with their own unique renditions.. Read More...