![]() “I’ve never been late for an album, and I’ve been making albums since ’88,” he said, referring to the year of his debut with Tony! Toni! Toné!, the trio he formed with a brother and a cousin after he returned to his native Oakland following his stint with Prince. Kicked back in the studio’s dimly lighted control room, Saadiq acknowledged that his fans have been waiting longer than usual for a set of new tunes. 6 concert at the Hollywood Bowl, where he’ll open for the soul singer Maxwell. Now, following a long stretch of behind-the-scenes work, he’s inching back to center stage with a solo album he’s finishing up - his first since “Stone Rollin’” in 2011 - and an Oct. He just wrapped his second season scoring Issa Rae’s hit HBO series “Insecure.” And moviegoers recently heard his music in “Step,” the acclaimed documentary about a girls’ dance team in Baltimore, which featured Cynthia Erivo’s performance of Saadiq’s original song “Jump.” Last year he co-produced and played on Solange’s Grammy-winning “A Seat at the Table” album.
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