Lina: Totally Slept On Singer of the Decade
October 28, 2009 No Comments
If it wasn’t for Michael Baisden’s radio show, you probably wouldn’t know the sounds of Lina, the Hidden Beach recording artist who has truly been an underground in her quest for stardom.
Lina has been around a loooong time, I should know, I copped her first joint, way back in the late 1990s. Immersed in the “neo soul” movement back then, urban radio just didn’t get Lina’s retro sound. But now, with the succes of people like Amy Winehouse and even Solange’s earthy, ’60s soul sound, it must be said that Lina did it first. The only difference is that Lina’s sound actually went back further than the 1960s, she tapped into pre-jazz ragtime for her first album.
Will she ever break out?
Time will tell. Check out her latest, “My Man”.
And ‘Smooth
