Urban Thought Collective

Southern Soul Crooner Anthony Hamilton makes his point.
Presented by Electronic Urban Report.

Anthony Hamilton, after seven Grammy nominations, finally took home his first this year for a project he did with the legendary Al Green.

That first award will surely just be one of many accolades the soulster is set to acquire through his career.

With his third album, “The Point of it All’, Hamilton takes his distinctive, throaty vocals to another level.

“The point of it all is one of those things you have to spend time with and pay attention to,” he said, explaining the title to EUR’s Lee Bailey. “We walk through this thing called life looking for something; whether it be love, friendship…we tend to be searching for something. My thing is to make people aware, even the walk, the things that you encounter day-to-day – relationships, friendships, loss – and really assess what your journey is all about. Most of us are looking for love, I’ve found.”

The disc features tracks that speak to the title in one way or another and Hamilton said that listeners will easily get the message of the title once they dive into the songs.

“I think people get it. The album itself, with the songs on the album it all comes together.”

Hamilton’s sound is reminiscent of ’60s soul and, at times, even his Grammy partner Al Green. Like Green, Hamilton is culpable for bringing church into his performances.

“Most people, when you go out on tour, you look for sexier moments of the performance. It just so happens, with me, that’s what’s important. Every day when you wake up you pray, when you go to bed you pray, you pray over your meals, so why not acknowledge God at a concert when everybody’s in there,” he said. “Being a Christian, I think I should include all of it. Being Christian doesn’t mean you don’t have those sexy moments. I want people to know you can come to a concert and laugh, cry, dance, feel sexy and still praise the Lord, as long as it’s in context. I’m not going to say ’sh*t’ and dammit and then say, ‘Praise the Lord.’”

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