After starring in the whole lot from TV’s First Wives Membership to the RZA-directed movie Love Beats Rhyme, actress and singer Jill Scott is making her long-awaited return to music with To Whom This Could Concern, her first album since 2015’s Woman. You’ll be able to hear the lead single “Lovely Individuals” and see the attractive cowl by visible artist Marcellus beneath.
“Lastly my new album entitled TO WHOM THIS MAY CONCERN drops Feb. thirteenth!!!!” Scott wrote on Instagram. “PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE and THANK YOU to your persistence and your listening ears.” In a separate put up about her collaborators, Scott noted that “Creating takes a village. I’m sharing my stunning folks most actually.”
Scott first broke via as a spoken-word artist within the late ‘90s earlier than getting recruited by Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson to contribute vocals to his nascent Soulquarians collective. Scott’s first album, 2000’s Who Is Jill Scott?: Words and Sounds, Vol. 1, was nominated for Greatest R&B Album on the 2001 Grammy Awards. She spent 2023 on the street for a rescheduled Phrases and Sounds anniversary tour.
To Whom This Could Concern will embody options from Ab-Soul, J.I.D., Tierra Whack, and Too $hort, together with manufacturing by Om’Mas Keith, DJ Premier, Trombone Shorty, amongst others.
Learn the Sunday Overview of Who Is Jill Scott?: Words and Sounds, Vol. 1
