#raphael-saadiq

#raphael-saadiq

"Cinematography does it all for me," Grammy-winning musician Raphael Saadiq told IndieWire over Zoom. The R&B icon, who has seen decades of success as a solo artist, as a member of the groups Tony! Toni! Toné! and Lucy Pearl, and as a writer/producer for everyone from Erykah Badu and Earth, Wind & Fire, to Alicia Keys, John Legend, and a few key names he'll get into later, has been explaining the way films have inspired a few of his biggest hits.

his one-man show on Monday night (Sept. 8) at Davies Symphony Hall in San Francisco by remembering how his father had once told him that he was a mistake but a good mistake. He'd later learn that his parents originally planned to terminate the unplanned pregnancy and his father even sent his mother off to an abortion clinic with $300 to do just that. Yet, while waiting at the clinic, his mother decided to go use the money to buy groceries at Safeway instead.

We don't even know how many times we've seen Modest Mouse over the decades. It's a lot well over two dozen times. But we are still looking forward to adding to that tally when this terrific alt-rock troupe returns for a co-headlining show with indie-pop stalwarts Flaming Lips at the Greek Theatre in Berkeley on Sept. 7. Dehd opens. Showtime is 6 p.m. and tickets start at $83, apeconcerts.com.