Shakura S’Aida is an impressive singer with a rich vocal chromatic wide musical tone She has just won the Second International Blues Challenge 2008 Award of The Blues Foundation in Memphis, Tennessee in competition with a hundred bands and about twenty different countries She has received some poetical reviews, as the one that said, if you take a portion of Baptist Church and mix it with Brooklyn flavour, plus a spoon of Belgian black chocolate, you will have a satisfactory powerful result, because you will have a new taste, full of delicious sensations for your palate, called Shakura S’Aida Her music how she sings rhythm and blues is half way divas Ruth Brown, Big Maybelle, Helen Humes or Patty Lavelle style but, do not get kid yourself, Shakura has a very actual contemporary sound For her debut album she is backed by her Canadiand band, James Bryan on guitar, Dennis keldien on keybioards, organ and piano, Howard Ayee, on bass, Michele Josef on drums and finally Simon Wallis on saxos Eleven good structured well performed songs belonging to fourties and fifties well known r&b song writers plus two Shakura’s own compostions form this hard tough that will surely convince the majority of you