Kenny J is well known for calypso, mid-tempo soca and soca parang. Soca Love Songs is a title in which the artist exerts his writer’s prerogative to name his work as he prefers and he gives us thirty-three minutes of soca splendor. Among familiar titles such as “I Just Called to Say I Love You” and “Lady in Red”, Kenny serenades convincingly with “Only You” and “God is Standing By”. He then begins the transition from Caribbean rhythms through a reggae, yes, “Besame Mucho”.
The other six songs are rendered in a style popular on American adult contemporary radio. But when “Unchained Melody” concludes the seventy-nine minutes of soulful singing, the soca “One in A Million” hauntingly lingers in the memory. A love song in sweet soca.
[eCaroh /Ron – February 2006]
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