Eric Benet
Eric Benet
Eric Benét Jordan, known professionally as Eric Benét, is an American R&B and neo soul singer-songwriter, who has received a total of four Grammy nominations to date for his musical work...
ProfessionR&B Singer
Date of Birth15 October 1966
CityMilwaukee, WI
Eric Benet quotes about
get-better trying
I just try and get better and better at me with every album.
trying
What's working for me is like when I go into the studio, I'm trying to get goosebumps.
dishonest
I would be dishonest if I said I didn't feel a little concern,
good music tim vision
Tim has a vision like David. That it doesn't have to be a genre-specific album. Good music will find an audience. This isn't just R&B; it's a lot of stuff.
accepted album chapter closure fear five last
This album is, in a sense, closure to a chapter in my life. I've purged myself of some of the things I've been going through in the last five years. That's more important to me than the fear of not being accepted by old fans.
album chapter closure
This album is, in a sense, closure to a chapter in my life.
soul
I like to leave all of my soul on the stage where I perform.
weekend wife parent
My wife and I are parents to a 4 year old and a 2 year old. It's really important for me to always be there for bath time and breakfast time and on the weekends.
I don't do well at picking first single.
dope popular-music electronic-music
I turn on the radio now and I don't have anything against a lot of sequenced and programmed and electronic music, a lot of it is dope and it's the future. It's what popular music has evolved to.
beautiful imperfection moved
For me, when I want to be emotionally moved by a vocal, I don't want to hear auto tune on it, I want to hear the beautiful imperfections.
moving thinking track
If I want to be moved by the track, I don't want it to be sequenced, I want it to be somebody playing the guitar or piano or a horn arrangement where you can hear the breath. You can almost smell the studio while listening to the music. For me, that's what moves me emotionally, that's what I came from. I think that's always going to work best for me.
thinking authenticity
I think the one thing for me that's been working is just authenticity.
I don't really chase trends and fads because they are fleeting.