HEALING - KELLY PRICE
R&B veteran Kelly Price — who could forget 1998’s Grammy Award-nominated No. 1 R&B smash “Friend of Mine?” — returns with the project she was born to record. The forthcoming “This Is Who I Am” pays homage to the slimmed-downed diva’s church roots, but this is far from the cliched black-girl-who-sang-in-the-choir story. Price is the daughter of a reverend father and evangelist mother, and she literally grew up in her parents’ church in Queens, N.Y. First single “Healing” is certainly not a stretch for adult R&B radio, with its richly produced, beautifully harmonized call for a higher power to take charge of a new direction. Price’s voice remains a celestial gift, hand-waving in its potency and deep-rooted passion. Billboard
