Entertainment Weekly – September 01, 2019

(Brent) #1
Raphael Saadiq

The Return of

FOR HIS FIRST ALBUM IN EIGHT


YEARS, THE LEGENDARY R&B


SINGER AND PRODUCER DECIDED


TO EXPLORE ADDICTION IN ALL ITS


FORMS. THE RESULT IS JIMMY LEE,


HIS MOST PERSONAL PROJECT


TO DATE. BY MARCUS J. MOORE


RAPHAEL SAADIQ’S LIFE HAS BEEN


marked by addiction. The second
youngest of 12 children, he’s seen
a sister struggle with substance
abuse and a brother so tormented
by a drug habit that it drove him
to suicide. But it was another of
Saadiq’s siblings, Jimmy Lee,
who’s had the biggest impact on
him. Jimmy Lee was also an
addict—he died from a heroin
overdose at the age of 42—but
Saadiq says that his brother, who

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