25 marked the 10th anniversary of the release of Kaleidoscope Dream, an album in which Miguel shared the adventurous genre-jumping that had Donny Hathaway, Radiohead, Curtis Mayfield, David Bowie, Prince, Grace Jones, Sade, Jodeci, M83 and The Knife all sharing space in his playlist. Related Story On ‘Renaissance’ Beyoncé is at her curatorial best Read now “Now, I want to make sure that everything I do is the best, most rounded projection of who I really am.” And that projection would be sexy, profane, whimsical, and, at times, dark. On All I Want is You, he sounded more in his element on the sad boy, electro soul sound of “ Girls Like You” than he was on the dance number “ To the Moon.” “With my first album, not only was I being misunderstood, I was misunderstood, and it was distracting people from the music,” he told The Fader in November 2012. Miguel, born Miguel Jontel Pimentel, was raised by a Mexican American father and an African American mother in San Pedro, California. Still, he bristled at attempts by Jive Records executives to push him to play the role of the prototypical crooner of the day (see: Bobby Valentino or Trey Songz). His first record, a scrappy slow burner, sold modestly. His sophomore release, Kaleidoscope Dream, was a personal and professional gamble for the then-25-year-old. The R&B troubadour was dissecting a track for the follow-up to his 2010 debut, All I Want is You and there was a lot on the line. ![]() “No, we can do more,” Miguel told a sound engineer during a marathon spring 2012 recording session at New York’s Platinum Sound Recording Studios.
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