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  Date / Time: 4/13/2009 3:23 AM UTC

  Q Harper Back To Classic Style R&B
  

  

  Native Detroit performance sensation Q Harper (the eleventh of twelve children) was born Quintin Deon Harper on December 29, 1967 to William and Mary Harper. His love for music was inherited from his father as he began his performance career at the tender age of five. As the second youngest member of “The Sensational Harper Singers” (a gospel group formed by his father), Q enjoyed regularly acclaimed appearances on radio and television, often performing with his siblings at three to four churches on any given Sunday. Under the watchful and demanding tutelage of William Harper, Q quickly developed an uncanny, almost enigmatic facility with music, a language he actually prefers to what he calls “all lesser forms of communication”. Despite his incredible abilities with the acoustic guitar, piano, and writer’s pen, it is his voice, the first of all instruments, which demands and arrests the ear. Boasting a beautifully even and technically flawless tonal quality, this artist’s upper and lower vocal registers are rendered with remarkable consistency as he seamlessly moves between each mechanical height and depth—both spontaneously and upon command. Moreover, the timbre of his voice is hued by colors derived from only the deepest feelings, full of sincerity, truth, and a God-given emotional intelligence and sensual intuition. Two unquestionably perfect examples of this type of natural and emotive vocal talent are Luther Vandross and Brian McKnight, artists to which Q’s gift can be arguably and justifiably compared. Moreover, if “Bridging the Gap” suffices as the title of this inaugural recording project, it is only because it is first Q’s musical philosophy and way of life that seeks to effectively eliminate the hostile divide between traditional notions of gospel music and the ballads we all want to hear when we find ourselves in love. To be sure, Q’s music fully demonstrates that a love for God is most articulately communicated by the love we express to one another—especially that storied “love supreme” that exists between a man and a woman which causes them to communicate romantically. Further influences upon Q’s soulful R&B, inspirational, and funk delivery are the likes of The Isley Brothers, Phyllis Hyman, Donny Hathaway, Marvin Gaye, and Al Jarreau, with a gripping, “troubled blues” overtone reminiscent of the late Ray Charles. Q Harper currently resides in Detroit, MI and is also the senior pastor of More Than Conquerors Christian Church, an interdenominational spiritual gathering. At a time when true artists are hard to come by, one does “come by”. “Bridging the Gap” will be released in the Spring of 2008.
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