D'Angelo won Grammy Award for Best Male R&B Vocal Performance for this song. Raphael collaborated on the song “Untitled (How does it feel” in 2000. Working together with Ali Shaheed Muhammad (from A Tribe called quest) and Dawn Robinson (En Vogue), Raphael recorded the self-titled album, which was the first and only with this group. In 1995, this song peaked at #2 on the R&B chart and #19 on the Billboard Hot 100.įrom 1999 to 2004 Saadiq had the big project – R&B supergroup Lucy Pearl. Raphael was the lead vocalist and the bassist in this R'n'B and dance trio.Īsk of you was Raphael’s biggest solo hit to date. The trio was Raphael Wiggins (Saadiq), his brother Dwayne Wiggins and his cousin Timothy Christian.
This trio was Saadiq’s first thing after the big tour with Prince. Being on tour with Prince for almost two years taught him more than enough for his upcoming career in music industry.
At the audition, Saadiq chose the name “Raphael”. The band was about to go to with Prince on the Parade Tour. Shortly before his 18th birthday (in 1984), Saadiq heard of tryouts in San Francisco for Sheila E.’s backing band. When he was twelve, he joined “The Gospel Humminbirds” group. Young Saadiq started playing the bass guitar when he was six years old, and he began to sing in a local gospel choir when he was nine. Raphael simply like the way this Arabic word sounds and adopted it as his surname to avoid mixing him with his brother Dwayne. This transition had rumors going that Raphael converted to Islam, but that wasn’t true. Saadiq in Arabic means “man of his word”. Raphael adopted surname Saadiq in the mid-1990’s.
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