Jojo belts her coronary heart out to Maxwell’s 2009 hit single “Fairly Wings” for the Recording Academy’s ReImagined Sequence.
Stripped right down to a piano, an upright bass and some background vocalists, the “Mad Love” singer breathes new life into the Grammy-winning monitor with some awe-inspiring vocal inflections that paint “Fairly Wings” in a brand new gentle.
Watch @iamjojo pay tribute to Maxwell, one of the vital celebrated modern #soul singers, with a canopy of his GRAMMY-winning tune, “Fairly Wings” 🎵: https://t.co/YPljkst4Pf pic.twitter.com/AbSM8sxFji
— Recording Academy / GRAMMYs (@RecordingAcad) June 18, 2020
Proceeds from the Maxwell cowl will go to the MusiCares COVID-19 Aid Fund, in an effort to fight the continued pandemic.
“We ReImagined one in all my favourite songs by one in all my favourite artists @_MAXWELL_ from his wonderful BLACKsummers’night time album for @RecordingAcad,” Jojo tweeted following the monitor’s launch.
The Vermont-born artist launched her fourth album Good to Know again in Could to important and industrial acclaim, hovering to the highest 10 of Billboard Prime R&B Albums chart.
Watch Jojo cowl of Maxwell’s “Fairly Wings” above.