A modern soul singer equally at home belting out dancefloor electro anthems or
strutting to jazzy hip-hop, Aloe Blacc's eclectic range of tastes and influences
make him one of the more interesting new pop voices. Born Egbert Nathaniel
Dawkins III on January 7, 1979 in Laguna Hills, California and raised in Los
Angeles by Panamanian parents, he grew up playing trumpet before discovering LL
Cool J and Run DMC and later started his own hip-hop group Emanon with producer
Exile in the mid-1990s. Together they released three independent albums of
experimental breakbeats, Dizzy Gillespi...