J. Holiday

The son of a preacher man from D.C. assembled a whole new creative team to help hone an even smoother (but less swaggering) sound on album two.

J. Holiday broke through in 2007 with the sultry R&B Number One "Bed," a title that sums up
his cosmology. Round 2 rarely strays far from the mattress: bodies colliding with
headboards, the whisper of sheets — everything short of thread counts and Posturepedic
model numbers. Holiday coos in a limpid falsetto over languid tempos and unobtrusive
production, while emphasizing utilitarianism ("Turn up the radio/So you can yell... More >