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Beach of the War Goddess (1993)

Caron Wheeler

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Lead Performance: Caron Wheeler; Genre: Hip-Hop/Rap

B+

By Tony Scherman

The second solo album from Soul II Soul's ex-vocalist is further evidence that black pop is growing less monolithic. Caron Wheeler's voice is small but beautifully controlled; launching into her ecstatic, microtonal scatting, she sounds like a Senegalese Aretha. Beach of the War Goddess' sole blemish: ''Lite as a Feather'''s noxious conceit that AIDS was invented to kill off minorities. B+

Posted Feb 26, 1993

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