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R&B singer J. Holiday lures listeners to "Bed"
08/24/2007 8:16 PM, Reuters
Gail Mitchell
Packing some of the sexiest ooh's
since Marvin Gaye -- a major influence and fellow Washington,
D.C., native -- J. Holiday's sultry "Bed" is bouncing up two
charts at once.
The track moves from No. 10 to No. 6 this week on the Hot
R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart and climbs from No. 42 to No. 24 on the
Billboard Hot 100.
Co-written by the Dream (whose credits include Rihanna's
smash "Umbrella"), the song also claims the best audience gain
of any single all year (up 12 million).
That's pretty heady stuff for the R&B singer-songwriter,
whose first Music Line/Capitol album, "Back of My 'Lac,"
arrives October 2.
In addition to Gaye, Holiday, who grew up in a musical
family, credits Donny Hathaway and R&B group Jodeci as
inspirations for his career, which took root after a
ninth-grade talent show. A second Dream-penned single
("Suffocate") is in the wings, and Holiday is sharing his
bedside manner as the opening act on Keyshia Cole's national
tour.
"I used to listen to music at home and say, 'I can do
this,"' an enthusiastic Holiday said during the tour's stopover
in Norfolk, Va. "And now I'm out here getting that chance."
Reuters/Billboard
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