I used to sing and people told me I was talented. "By the time I started singing I was about 15. So it was with much encouragement from both his mother and friends that Trey entered and won 20 local talent shows.ĭespite the massive accolades he received, Trey was still unconvinced and quite blasé about his singing voice. They urged him to give up the rapping and pursue singing.
Trey's real passion lay in rapping, and it was only by chance that his friends heard his singing voice, one day and realised that their man could sing. The only R&B artist to register on Trey's coolometer was R.
He cites his favorite artists as Jay-Z, Biggie, and Nas. Trey was not even a huge fan of R&B, the only music he listened to religiously, was hip-hop. There were no voice or instrument lessons in fact perhaps the only musical influence forced upon him was the church by his devout Grandmother, who sang in the choir. Trey grew up not unlike any other teenage boys going to school, listening to rap music, shooting hoops, and throwing parties. Trey Songz was born Tremaine Neverson in Petersburg, Virginia, where he grew up with no intensions of becoming an R&B singer. So in steps a New Jack, 20-year-old Trey Songz, AKA "The Prince of Virginia," set to take the game by storm. If R&B were a person they'd be that sinner on the block who's lost his way and needs to get back to the church. It has watered down the emotions and depth and emphasised the sex, to become virtually unrecognisable from its former self. However modern R&B has pimped itself out to appeal to the mass market. The emotions were evident from the sheer urgency and fervour with which they were sung. True R&B can evoke sensual emotions from the depth of the soul and make them stir with every slight change in timbre of the singer's voice. Traditionally it has a four beat metre and utilises a backbeat, which provides a unique accent on each bar on beats two and four, which are traditionally unaccented in other forms of music. True R&B has a distinct style, which separates it from other genres of music. Its unmistakable influence can be found in Gospel music, Jazz, world music, rock music, and even country music. Then in the late 1950's when white performers such as Elvis Presley and Bill Haley achieved mass appeal with the same music, white performers and disc jockeys dubbed the phenomenon, "rock and roll." Rhythm and Blues, or R&B as it is affectionately called, has been the single largest influence on popular music worldwide throughout the twentieth century. The term was used to describe the phenomenon of a new black popular music which had emerged in the late 1940's and mid 1950's. "Rhythm and Blues" was a phrase first introduced in 1949 by Jerry Wexler who later became a prominent figure with that giant of all record labels, Atlantic records. If he can do all that, then I'll definitely look forward to the sophomore album. This artist will have a hit with this album, but if he truly wants to make it, and be around for the long haul, he needs to develop a more original sound and style such as experienced on "Hatin' Love," "Coming For You" and "All The Ifs". Surefire hits include "Gotta Make It", "Gotta Go," "Hatin' Love", "All the If's", "Coming For You", "Ur Behind", and "From A Woman's Hand" on all of the aforementioned tracks, Trey's vocals are enviously on point. Here Trey is in danger of merging into the shadows of such artists and not standing out from the crowd, which someone with this degree of talent definitely deserves to do. Trey also has to work a lot harder at molding and establishing his own identity and sound.Įarly on in the album Trey sounds a lot like Lloyd and then later morphs into a younger sounding R. Such tracks are sub par, as they are not done correctly or to the same standard of "Ur Behind", and instead of dripping with playful testosterone, are saturated with embarrassing and laughable off key moments. However Trey should really stay away from tracks like "Just Wanna Cut, and "In the Middle", the lame lyrics and coarse postulating of which really hinder Trey's flow, and take away from, rather than add to the artist. Yet it is a young voice as he is only 20, but a voice once developed further will trounce all competitors. All in all this is a solid debut album Trey has a lot of talent and a beautiful voice.
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