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Maurice Smith

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| View Show | Create Your Own Evolution is an inevitable part of life and art is no exception. Maurice Smith set out on a journey in early 2005 to stretch his musical muscles in the City of Angels. The result has been a vocalist that has learned to tell a story rather through R&B or Rock & Roll. Smith has grown to become one of the most noticeable vocalists on the Los Angeles music scene. Listeners say that after they have seen a Maurice Smith show, they leave with a different view of him. Most listeners look at Smith and expect to sit and be serenaded to. But what really happens? Listeners end up clapping their hands and stomping their feet. What a change, what a change!!! Three years ago, if you were to see Maurice Smith, you would think that he himself were Cupid.
Smith has now included a wide variety of music in his show. Rather it is his high energy performance of Lenny Kravitz’s “Fly Away”, or the smooth delivery of his own hit “Midnight Dream”, evolution has taken place. When you first pop in the EP from the forth coming album This Is Love, you are automatically taken to the days of Earth Wind & Fire with the blazing horns from “This Is Love”. Smith sings to Love as if he had been waiting for that very day to tell Love how he felt. Always determined to make sure that his audience feels his passion, Smith puts his heart into this song every time he steps on stage. The second song on the EP, “Midnight Dream” is a song that listeners say makes them just say, “ooh”. This song has such a smooth delivery and such passionate lyrics that listeners often find themselves mesmerized.
If you haven’t seen a Maurice Smith show you are cheating yourself on seeing a legend in the beginning stages of his career. Drawing comparison to the great tenors of our time such as Stokley, Raphael Saadiq, El DeBarge, and the greatest of them all Stevie Wonder, Smith has to have something that the world is in store to see. So open up your eyes and watch the Evolution of Maurice Smith.

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Member Since: 30/06/2005
Band Website: www.maurice-smith.com
Band Members: Musical Director-Bass & Keys: Trevor Jennings Keys: Chris Wilson Guitar: Andy Mixner Drums: Titus Johnson Percussions: Bro. Ed & Ricardo Sax & Keys (At the same time): eZra Brown Background Vocals: Dennis ClarkPerforming People Make the World Go Round @ Stevie's in EncinoVideo from the Soul Station @ Cozy'sCalifornia debut 2005
Influences: Where do I begin? Nat King Cole, Coleman Hawkins, Sonny Rollins, Sam Cooke, Otis Redding, Al Green, Marvin Gaye, David Ruffin, Will Downing, Luther Vandross, Prince, The Artist Formely Known As Prince, The Artist, and Prince. Micheal Jackson, Raphael Saadiq, Stokley, Tony Terry, Johnny Gill, Babyface, Brian McKnight, Musiq, Bilal, Viktar Duplaix, Omar, Anthony Hamilton, Ron Isley, Commissioned, The Winans, B.B. King, Johnny Taylor, Remy Shand, Jimmy Cozier, Eric Benet, Maxwell, Dwele, Donnie, Rashaan Patterson, Myron, Glenn Lewis, El DeBarge, Earth Wind & Fire, Maze and Frankie Beverly, The Gap Band, Stevie Wonder and the list goes on and on.....
Sounds Like: Many say El DeBarge, Stevie Wonder, Rapheal Saadiq, and Stokley. MAN DO I WISH!!!
Record Label: Commontones Production/ SOULReign Music Group
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Rebolex TV Interview

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Posted by on Tue, 22 Jul 2008 15:23:00 GMT

Honestly Spoken

I couldn't have put this any better....     "Be cool," says Crouch. "Be nice to people. The young guy you give a little tip to today could be the cat writing your check years later. Don't be...
Posted by on Tue, 04 Mar 2008 01:47:00 GMT

Jennifer Hudson or Beyonce

Someone please tell me that I am not crazy, but didn't Beyonce have a whole lot more soul than Jennifer Hudson in Dreamgirls?  I'm not the biggest Beyonce fan, but I think that she sounded a whol...
Posted by on Sat, 21 Apr 2007 11:18:00 GMT

The Unofficial Release

It has taken me so long to finish up my CD that I have started to get pissed. So, I have decided to bootleg my own music. The way I see it is, is if I don't do it someone else will. So Feb. 2nd will b...
Posted by on Sun, 21 Jan 2007 10:47:00 GMT

Hometown Article-Jackson Free Press

[Music] Maurice Smith: Jackson's Newest Sound of Neosoul by Adrienne HearnFebruary 2, 2005When a music listener from Mississippi takes a moment to reflect on the local homegrown talent, the first name...
Posted by on Thu, 18 Jan 2007 16:24:00 GMT

Booking Info

Please send all booking request to [email protected] or call 310 445 8880.
Posted by on Wed, 06 Dec 2006 18:48:00 GMT