Why I love… Mary J Blige

No one made me feel like MJB did – full up and world-weary, but always hopefulWe don’t do torch singers all that often any more. Fashions change and so do audiences, and often musicians will twist to fit the mood that we are in. The key to it all remains the voice, and the story it is telling. There is one artist who, for me, manages to combine the hip-hop and soul she’s renowned for with that torch singer sensibility; a sense of loss and longing. It is multiple Gramm