Sweetback (band)

Sweetback is a British band. It consists of three members of the band Sade: Stuart Matthewman ( guitar, saxophone ), Paul Spencer Denman (bass) and Andrew Hale (keyboards).

Sweetback was founded as a side project, as Sade Adu after the Love Deluxe Tour 1994 lodged a multi-year break. The band members were currently living in different places: Matthewman in New York City, where he ran a music studio and produced under the name Cottonbelly, Hale in London and Denman in Los Angeles. The songs were compiled together and exchanged various working versions as Digital Audio Tape. The debut album was released in October 1996 under the name Sweetback Epic Records, the singles You will rise and Au were decoupled natural. In June 2004, the second album Stage 2 was released, the singles from it were Lover and Things you'll never know.

The band members described their music style as " global soul music ", reviewers called it a mixture of ambient, trip-hop, soul and jazz. On the albums can be found next instrumentals and vocal numbers, were obliged for the various guest musicians. On the first album Amel Larrieux singing, Bahamadia, Maxwell and Leroy Osbourne, on the second album Aya and Chocolate Genius.