不久前弄道了他们的一张专集EMOTIONAL,听了之后，暂且还无法作出评论，但是他们的和声比较混乱，乱中有序，不知是有意而为还是他们独特的风格，其中有一手是BBF制作的Down For Life
随便介绍一下他们吧
演唱歌手：K-Ci & Jojo
专辑名称：All My Life Their Greatest Hits
专辑语言：English
专辑流派：R&B
发行公司：MCA
出版年月：2005年
专辑介绍：
前几天同学问我有没有KCi & Jojo的歌曲，至少我是有些吃惊，怎么这个时候想起了KCi & Jojo，不会和这张精选辑有关系吧，想来他们是该有张精选辑了，特别是在这样一个新人辈出，本身又已经消声匿迹，不太欣赏当前R&B的发展趋势，看来自己老了，只能听听KCi & Jojo了，KCi真名叫Cedric，Jojo则是Joel，但他们都有同样一个姓Hailey，也就是说他们是兄弟，他们也是大名鼎鼎的Jodeci中的一对兄弟，但他们却是截然不同的两个品性，KCi极为的放荡不羁，当众春光乍泄，远比Janet的裸胸时间严重，也算是这方面的鼻祖了，他们的音乐则是完美的合声抒情，外加即兴的转音。If You Think You’re Lonely Now虽然不是两人的合作，却标志了Jodeci暂时解散，和KCi & Jojo的组成，从第一首单曲到最不成功的专辑Emotional，风格上都没有多大的变化，在旋律和合声上倒是尝试了许多不同的元素，但始终还是情歌式的R&B，1998年的All My Life成为他们的绝世杰作，之后的Tell Me It’s Real只是想再次复制当年的成功，只是从那以后，事业渐渐开始走入低谷，几乎想充足当年的Jodeci，不过看看有那么多的合辑都会把All My Life收入，他们也该满足一些了，精选中的All My Life选用的是专辑中的版本，就是包括了开头的小提琴，这是不常听到的，电台版去掉这个开头本身有些失策。精选辑本身也是一张很好的情歌集锦，是今年情人节的好礼物，虽然All My Life的光芒盖过了整张专辑中其他的歌曲，但是任何一首单独的曲目都要比现在那种R&B要有味道的多，除了以上提到的诸多曲目，和Babyface合作的那首I Care About You是KCi & Jojo和艺人合作中比较的成功的一首，还有一首就是出现在2Pac的How Do You Want It。Crazy虽然已经是倒退的作品了，但是单独来看仍然不失为一首R&B的佳作，尤其是在今天。KCi & Jojo的失宠还是由于人们口味的转变，唱了4张专辑的抒情R&B，是一种坚持，也是一种呆板。
专辑曲目：
1. Last Night's Letter
2. You Bring Me Up
3. How Could You
4. All My Life
5. Don't Rush (Take Love Slowly)
6. If You Think You're Lonely Now
7. I Care About You
8. Never Say Never Again
9. Through Heaven's Eyes
10. Life
11. Tell Me It's Real
12. Girl
13. Crazy
14. Wanna Do You Right
15. I Can't Find The Words
16. This Very Moment
17. Special
18. Down For Life
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专辑名称： It's Real
专辑歌手： K-Ci & JoJo
发行日期： 1999-06-22
专辑语种： 英语
专辑类型： R&B
唱片公司： Mca
压缩比率： 256kbps
专辑介绍：
Amazon.com's Best of 1999
The music of these two former Jodeci stars has grown to the point that It's Real might be the best new R&B album of 1999. Making the themes of classic soul come alive one more time, the duo also impress with their sheer sound. Their voices compel you to listen; they're as serious as a heart attack. --Rickey Wright
Amazon.com
A cut above many of their peers in '90s sex-you-up R&B, these former Jodeci members have returned with an album worthy of its instant-hit status. Though occasionally weak in the songwriting department, It's Real sharply connects old-school Southern-soul-style vocal testifying with up-to-date beats. In an age where cookie-cutter romance rules the airwaves, K-Ci & JoJo's work is truly refreshing. --Rickey Wright
在出版了三张Jodeci专辑及一张张K-Ci & Jojo专辑后，Hailey兄弟再次以后者的名义推出他们的第二张专辑《It's Real》，新作品依然保持了K-Ci&Jojo的一贯风格：中速的节奏、流畅的旋律和悦耳易唱的曲调。他们前一张专辑中的单曲
“All My Life”取得了百万张的销量。
之前发布了K-Ci & Jojo的《Love Always》和《X》，相信大家一定对他们的音乐有了一定的了解。浓郁的R&B唱腔，完美的和声，喜欢黑人音乐的你千万别错过这一张专辑。在炎热的夏季，它定会带给你清凉的感觉。
特别推荐：Fee Fie Foe Fum、 Tell Me It's Real
专辑曲目：
1. Intro
2. Fee Fie Foe Fum
3. I Wanna Make Love to You
4. I Wanna Get to Know You
5. Hello Darlin'
6. How Long Must I Cry
7. Makin' Me Say Goodbye
8. Tell Me It's Real
9. Life
10. Girl
11. What Am I Gonna Do
12. Here He Comes Again
13. Momma's Song
14.All My Life(Bonus Track)
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专辑名称： X
专辑歌手： K-Ci & JoJo
发行日期： 2000-12-05
专辑语种： 英语
专辑类型： R&B
唱片公司： Mca
专辑介绍：
Amazon.com
Whereas Jodeci (the four-man ensemble that spawned this spin-off project) were known for their
grinding-the-stage gyrations and afterparty aspirations, K-Ci & JoJo, often besuited in tuxes and tails, are a duo known more for their semidignified balladry. Each of their two previous albums (Love Always and It's Real) spawned an anodyne megahit: "All My Life" and "Tell Me It's Real," respectively. X promises nothing less. "Crazy" has that formula feel to it; "Baby, I apologize for all the things that I've done," JoJo croons at the outset, before giving way to a vocoded chorus so tinny it almost collapses. Nevertheless, its moody blue tenor is just what urban radio ordered. The pair keep up the serenades throughout X, hitting high points on "One Last Time" and the Marvin Gaye-ish "I Can't Find the Words."
K-Ci and JoJo only go uptempo on the banal "Game Face" and the bubbly, aggressively sexy "Thug in Me, Thug in You." The latter features yet another lost 2Pac verse, and it's the only track where the two don't appear to stand on ceremony--hinting that freaks still lurk under those tuxedos. --Jon Caramanica
在出版了三张Jodeci专辑及两张K-Ci&Jojo专辑后，Hailey兄弟再次以后者的名义推出他们的第三张专辑《X》，新作品依然保持了K-Ci&Jojo的一贯风格：中速的节奏、流畅的旋律和悦耳易唱的曲调。他们前两张专辑中的单曲“All My Life”和“Tell Me It's Real”均取得了百万张的销量，而他们这种忧郁的歌声正是各城市电台所需要的。 “One Last Time”以及颇有Marvin Gaye曲风的“I Can't Find the Words”，可称作是这张专辑中的两首夜曲。“Wanna Do You Right”选取了Luther Ingram的经典作品“If Loving You Is Wrong，I Don't Want To Be Right”的旋律，由著名的音乐人Teddy Riley（他是Michael Jackson在Quincy Jones之后的专职制作人）和Roy Hamilton共同制作。“All The Things I Should Have Known”由Babyface制作，K-Ci&Jojo赋予歌曲多种色彩，展现出他们非凡的音乐才能。这些歌曲会使人想起六、七十年代校园里传唱的老歌，以及那些节奏与布鲁斯大师Bobby Womack、Sam Cooke等，在“Wanna Do You Right”中，你会发现K-Ci在极力靠近Bobby Womack的演唱风格。Timbaland制作的“Game Face”则不仅表现出K-Ci&Jojo的实力，这也是Tim制作的多首作品中的经典。
特别推荐：Honest Lover、 Wanna Do You Right、 Crazy 、 All the Things I Should Have Known 、 Suicide
专辑曲目：
1. Honest Lover
2. Wanna Do You Right
3. Get Back
4. Crazy
5. Game Face
6. Thug n U Thug n Me
7. If It's Going to Work
8. All the Things I Should Have Known
9. I Can't Find the Words
10. Something Inside of Me
11. One Last Time
12. Suicide
13. Ooh Yeah
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专辑名称： Love Always
专辑歌手： K-Ci & JoJo
发行日期： 1997－06－17
专辑语种： 英语
专辑类型： R&B
唱片公司： Mca
压缩比率： 192kbps
专辑介绍：
Not to be funny, but I wonder if the group should have just been called K-Ci & JoJo even when there were four members. Anyway, when the Hailey brothers first released this album, some people were mad because there weren't any songs like "Freek'n You" on here. Maybe listeners weren't ready for them to mature just yet? In any case, this album was great.
The best songs would have to be "Still Waiting" and, of course, "All My Life". "Last Night's Letter" is also a winner, and they do a great job with their rendition of Mtume's "Love Ballad". And until now, I never paid that much attention to the lyrics in "Don't Rush". They're actually kind of funny.
My brother and sister never liked "You Bring Me Up". I used to love that song, but now that I think about it, it kind of sounds like a Jodeci song that was made while they were still backing up Father MC. And another thing (and I know some people may be tired of me talking about this), who was in charge of the liner notes? In the lyrics, there are all kinds of typos and omitted words and just plain wrong verses.
Oh well, this is still a great album. Truthfully, this is the only really good album K-Ci & JoJo made (X came close, though), so if you don't have it, get it now.
以Rap~R&B~Soul~Funk类型音乐著名的黑人团体Jodecl曾在Billboard里有着辉煌的成绩以K-ci & JoJo Hailey这两位兄弟演唱~制作皆优的歌手缔造了
"Come and talk to me"
"Forever my lady"
"Lately"
"Love U 4 life"
"Freak N you"
这几首在Billboard Top 40里拥有佳绩
"Forever my lady"~"Diary of a mad band"~"The show, The after party, The hotel"这三张专辑更是获得 Billboard R&b Album Top 1 的冠军宝座K-ci & JoJo 更是擅长将Soul~R&B 的精隨以黑人现代都会(Urban)包装呈现出来使得Jodecl成为現代节奏蓝调代表乐团之一
1998年K-ci&JoJo以双人组的身分灌录首张专辑"Love always"在此张专辑中标榜以"Love"为主題也在歌词方面避开或提及"Sex"的字眼有别于在Jodecl那時的创作风格~~K-ci&JoJo也特別声明发行这张专辑只是希望跳脱出以往Jodecl的风格
并不代表Jodecl已经解散了
专辑中也邀请了Babeface及原是Jodecl一员的DeVante Swing跨刀助阵
专辑中"All my life"这首描写手足之情~男女爱情的歌曲在推出单曲时就已经是Billboard榜上的冠军了更是全美各家电台点播的冠军曲
另外Babeface跨刀所创作的"How many times ( Will you let him break your heart)"慢板的R&B以清脆的木吉他作为伴奏加上K-ci&JoJo两人一高亢一浑厚的合声~是首令人感伤的情歌
JoJo所创作的"How could you-Bonus Track"整首在他们干净的合声中为一首清爽的抒情曲
特别推荐：Last Night's Letter、 Just for Your Love 、 Now and Forever、 How Many Times (Will You Let Him Break Your Heart) 、 All My Life
专辑曲目：
1. HBI
2. Last Night's Letter
3. Baby Come Back
4. Just for Your Love
5. Now and Forever
6. Don't Rush (Take Love Slowly)
7. You Bring Me Up
8. Still Waiting
9. Love Ballad
10. How Many Times (Will You Let Him Break Your Heart)
11. All My Life
12. How Could You
