Andreus’ Street Troubadour

 

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Andreus’ sound takes listeners back to a simpler yet more provocative time in music – a time when songs meant something.  …a musical gem.    Billboard Magazine   

 

Chicago Top Ten List of the Year

#2.  Andreus, "Street Troubadour" (The Dialogue Group/Lightyear) Drawing on the soul symphonies of Curtis Mayfield and the detailed storytelling power of hip-hop, one-man-band Deandrias Abdullah creates his own brand of urban folk music on this stunning debut.                                                                               Chicago Tribune, Greg Kot

 

…You can hear a mix of D’angelo, Maxwell, and Curtis Mayfield, yet in its own class.  This album is a must have.                                              King Magazine

 

THIS CD ROCKS.  He sounds like Maxwell vocally but produces all his own music?!?!?! Absolutely great.                                                            Mediaguide Incorporated       

 

If I told you the album has elements of Maxwell, Lenny Kravitz, Jimi Hendrix, D’Angelo, Bob Marley, Michael Franti, The Last Poets, Marvin Gaye, and, above all, Curtis Mayfield you’d just about start to get the picture—honestly, it’s all good…An album for the 21st century that’s evolved out of black music’s rich and diverse heritage and it stands as one of the strongest debut sets you’ll ever hear.      Blues & Soul Magazine

 

Hustla’s Theme, the first track, instantly involved the emotional an spiritual senses and the rest of the album pretty much flowed the same.  Bastard Child and Who Am I along with the tracks Mississippi and Mary Ann all carried powerfully written messages that could have not been written except by someone that had actually felt the experiences of the music and the lyrics.                                             The Indi, Ron Daniels

 

In the vocal of Andreus, a native of the Southside of Chicago is the reincarnation of Curtis Mayfield.  The lingering quality and performance is to say the least is stupendous!

                                                                                     The New Voice of New York

 

After your Maxwells and D”Angelos, Andreus is the name that deserves to be up there.  Already an album of the year for me…                        Kwaku, DJ

 

The return of Chicago soul with a conscience.  Curtis would be proud.    Echoes  

 

An ambitious first album, which Andreus pulls off in some style.  If there’s any justice, Mississippi, Andreus’ tale of going back to the deep south ‘to free my mind and my soul,’ will prove to be one of the biggest tunes of the year.          Manifesto   

 

Never in all my years of listening to neo-soul have I ever heard the voice of the ghetto sung so elegantly since Tupac.                       DeCode Magazine