Before his fatal heart attack on Nov. 10, popular R&B crooner Gerald Levert had just completed work on a new studio album said to reflect his arrival at a personal crossroads.
“Gerald always made personal albums that have been about his experiences,” Warner Music Group executive vice president Kevin Liles told Billboard about Levert’s “In My Songs,” due Feb. 13 from Atlantic Records. “But with this album, I think he really became vulnerable. On ‘Songs,’ you can tell he missed being loved. Everyone knows his passion for music, but something else was missing in his life. I think this album was therapy for him.”
Levert’s manager, Leonard Brooks, describes “In My Songs” as a classic R&B album full of the singer’s heartfelt feeling and emotion.
“This album tells you where he was in his life,” Brooks told Billboard. “He was 40, 22 years in the business, and still working very hard. It’s going to be difficult putting this album out with him not here. But it doesn’t stop, and he wouldn’t have wanted it to stop.”
