After starring in every part from TV’s First Wives Membership to the RZA-directed movie Love Beats Rhyme, actress and singer Jill Scott is making her long-awaited return to music with To Whom This Could Concern, her first album since 2015’s Lady. You possibly can hear the lead single “Lovely Folks” and see the beautiful cowl by visible artist Marcellus beneath.
“Lastly my new album entitled TO WHOM THIS MAY CONCERN drops Feb. thirteenth!!!!” Scott wrote on Instagram. “PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE and THANK YOU on your endurance and your listening ears.” In a separate publish about her collaborators, Scott famous that “Creating takes a village. I’m sharing my lovely folks most actually.”
Scott first broke via as a spoken-word artist within the late ‘90s earlier than getting recruited by Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson to contribute vocals to his nascent Soulquarians collective. Scott’s first album, 2000’s Who Is Jill Scott?: Phrases and Sounds, Vol. 1, was nominated for Greatest R&B Album on the 2001 Grammy Awards. She spent 2023 on the street for a rescheduled Phrases and Sounds anniversary tour.
To Whom This Could Concern will embody options from Ab-Soul, J.I.D., Tierra Whack, and Too $hort, together with manufacturing by Om’Mas Keith, DJ Premier, Trombone Shorty, amongst others.
Learn the Sunday Evaluate of Who Is Jill Scott?: Phrases and Sounds, Vol. 1
