Brian McKnight And I Chat About Porn Stars, Criticism And The N-Word

Brian McKnight was cool, calm and collected before going on stage for the first of his four dates at London’s Jazz Café on his ‘Just Me’ World Tour.

Before the 42-year-old singer was due to start his sound check, TaleTela was thrilled to chat to the crooner about his sons BJ and Niko’s band ‘BRKN RBTZ’ (Broken Robots), what he thinks about being attacked for using auto-tune on track ‘Fall 5.0’ and fighting porn star Alana Evans on Twitter…

Emeli Sande Kills It At KOKO, Camden

On the final date of her UK headline tour, Scottish Soul singer/songwriter Emeli Sande was on stage at KOKO in Camden last night for a sold out date before the release of her forthcoming album next year. Having already released singles ‘Daddy’ and ‘Heaven’ TaleTela was invited down to the gig to take a look at what was in store for us when the LP hits stores next February…

I Chat To T-Pain About Lily Allen, Chris Brown, Black Eyed Peas

T-Pain – real name Faheem Rasheed Najm – is to release his fourth studio album ‘rEVOLVEr’ next month, which will feature the Lily Allen and Wiz Khalifa assisted track ‘5 O’clock’ plus guest appearances from the likes of Chris Brown, Lil Wayne and Ne-Yo.

The record will be the singer’s last with Konvict Records and TaleTela caught up with the Florida native for a quick chat about his relationship with the record labels founder Akon, working with Brown and Lily Allen’s reaction to the sampling of her track…

I Meet Seal And We Chat About Winehouse, Katy Perry…

UK Singing legend Seal follows up his bestselling 2008 compilation of Soul covers with the release of Soul II which sees the 48-year-old team up with producer David Foster and belt versions of such classics as ‘Let’s Stay Together,’ ‘Wishing On A Star’ and ‘Love Don’t Live Here Anymore.’

TaleTela were thrilled to be given the chance to talk to the star about the project, today’s music scene and more…