New Video: Milk & Honey by Goapele

Goapele is the shit and I know we can all agree! Milk & Honey off Break of Dawn make sure you all cop that below!

New Video: Goapele Performs Closer during Christmas Special

Goapele Performs Closer on Russell Peters Christmas Special! #510 stand up!

New Music: Goapele’s Play Remixed by Beat Ventriloquists x Substratum

Goapele’s Play Remixed by Beat Ventriloquists x Substratum with four unique remixes. The Beat Ventriloquists provide two sides of the dance music spectrum with dual dubstep and electro versions. Listen to our two favorite remixes and its set to be released on 11/29/2011.

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New Video: Goapele In Store Performance at Rasputins

Goapele recently had an in store at Rasputin's in Berkeley on 11/16/2011. Enjoy

New Video: Goapele Performs at The Key Club

Goapele holding it down with her new release handling a performance at the Key Club in Hollywood

New Video: Goapele Performs at El Rey

Goapele making her rounds by performing and promoting her new release Break of Dawn. here is a performance at El Rey Theatre in Los Angeles.

New Video: Goapele Performs at the Birchmere

Goapele performs Love Me Right at the Birchmere Alexandria on 10/27/2011.

New Images: Goapele at Key Club in Los Angeles

Thought this would be a cool post for everyone to view! New pictures of Goapele performing in Los Angeles at the Key Club

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New Interview: Goapele on CherryOnTop.Com All Access by Cherry Martinez

Cherry Martinez provides us an exclusive interview with Goapele who speaks on playing up her sensual side, whether she feels pressure to sex up her image and the possible role she'll play in the upcoming "Sparkle" remake.

New Interview: Goapele Speaks On Her Favorite Hip-Hop Collaborations by Complex

"Good soul music should make you feel something in your heart, in your body and in your spirit,” says Goapele, the Oakland-based singer/songwriter who released her third album, Break of Dawn, last week. "That’s what I try to do both in the studio and on stage.” (And presumably on-screen too, since the singer recently confirmed that she'll have a role in the all-star remake of the 1976 film Sparkle, which will soon begin production.)

Sitting in the lobby of a Times Square hotel a few hours before sound check, the former Berklee College of Music student sips from a steaming cup of coffee and explains how she carved the perfect niche for herself with music that fuses jazz, soul, and boom-bap poetics.

Though Goapele cites both Al Green and Frank Ocean as soul inspirations, she also considers herself “a major hip-hop fan.” She's worked with a wide array of rappers including the Bay Area's Hieroglyphics crew, with whom she first collaborated on their single “Make Your Move” in 2003. “The first time I ever went into a real studio was with those guys,” she remembers. “The first member I met was Pep Love and we all just connected from the beginning.”

Introduced to rap when she was kid listening to her brother’s EPMD and Rakim records, Goapele has also worked with the likes of Talib Kweli, E-40 and Kayne West. “I think Talib is one of the few rappers right now saying a lot in his songs—and the tracks are great, which is usually a hard balance to find,” she says. “His songs are the kind that, when you’re driving around, they make you turn the volume up until it can’t go any higher.

“E-40 is another person I love working with, because he is so entertaining,” she continues with a smile. “He should have his own reality show. I love that he raps the same way that he talks. All you have to do is listen to him to hear how much he has influenced the vocabulary of rappers, and not just on the west coast.”

Although the Kanye collabo remains a work in progress, Goapele says she paid him a visit in Hawaii. "I was out there doing a show with Mos Def," she recalls. "Kanye and I spoke of working together and started an idea that we didn't get to finish." This was when she was just beginning the process of putting together her current album Break of Dawn. "We are still musical friends," she says of Ye, whom she first met when both were new artists. "Hopefully we'll get to work together more when the time is right."

More recently, Goapele has been in the studio with backpacker president Mos Def. “Mos is a true artist who has a story to tell and gives back through his music,” says Goapele. “He remixed my song ‘Different’ in 2005 and the song we’re working on now will be one of my future projects.”


In the future, Goapele says she's hoping to work with both D’Angelo and Stevie Wonder. “With Stevie, I’d be happy if we could just write a song together,” she says. “For me, a true collaboration is when both artists understand the true essence of the song, and pay attention to the subject matter. I don’t want to make do collaborations where it sounds as though the other person was just tacked on without a thought.”

Like her previous albums Even Closer (2002) and Change It All (2005), Break of Dawn is being distributed in conjunction with her own independent label Skyblaze, which Goapele runs with her husband and her brother. “Establishing Skyblaze allowed me to have a more direct connection with my business as well as the music,” she concludes as she heads off to soundcheck. “I like being more hands-on when it comes to my music."

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New Video: Goapele Celebrates The Release of Break Of Dawn

Goapele celebrates the release of her much anticipated new album with a special show at B.B. Kings in NYC and after the jump enjoy the whole set of her performing different songs! Great experience!

New Interview: Goapele with The Washington Post

Macy L. Freeman with The Washington Post interviewed Goapele after watching a performance at the Birchmere Music Hall in Alexandria, Va.

Q: How would you say “Break of Dawn” is different from your previous albums?
A: “Break of Dawn,” musically, is still soulful and eclectic, but I think I opened up a little bit more vocally. It’s a little more intimate. It’s a little more sensual than before—and pensive.

Q: Of the nine tracks on” Break of Dawn,” which would you say means the most to you and why?
A: I would say “Pieces” and “Tears on My Pillow” and—you know—those are my ballads and their bluesy and sentimental for me.

Q: What do you hope listeners take away from the new album?
A: I want people to feel inspired. I want people to feel good. I want people to feel something. I want people to strive for what they want in their life, and I want them to heal from anything that’s hurting them.

Q: You once said, “Soul is kind of the root of the music that I do, but I want to keep redefining.” How do you go about doing that, and how do you feel about being placed into the neo-soul category?
A: I say that I do Soul, R&B music. I have so many influences from Billie Holiday, Nina Simone to Stevie Wonder and Prince and even Al Green and Bjork. And a lot of Hip Hop music has influenced me a lot—you know—De La Soul and Digital Underground and A Tribe Called Quest. So many different influences that when I’m in the studio, you know as a songwriter, I like feeling free and going with the vibe and letting the song grow as it should. Sometimes that doesn’t fit exactly into any category, so I have to keep redefining how to describe the music that I do. But I promise that it will always be soulful, because it will come from my soul.

Q: What inspired you to name the album “Break of Dawn?”
A: When I was finished recording everything and all of these songs are just glimpses of moments of different feelings and thoughts that I’ve had or different stories that are part my own and part collected that I want to tell. I wanted a title that would capture all of that and capture where I’m trying to go and I feel like the break of dawn is infinite possibilities for what that day will bring.

Q: When did you first discover that music was the path you wanted to take?
A: Well, I remember when I was in elementary school, maybe like 8 years old or something. I was around a lot of performing artists that were friends of the family and I just always felt like ‘that’s what I want to do.’ In high school I started training, singing with choirs and getting voice lessons and doing a lot of creative writing and decided that that’s really what I wanted to pursue as a career and that’s what I was going to study.

Q: What music are you listening to right now?
A: I’m listening to James Blake and Frank Ocean, Erykah Badu—Ledisi.

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New Video: Goapele Talks Whitney Houston

Goapele gives it up for Whitney Houston on Rhapsodys On the Record which is a video series where rock stars gush about their favorite records for exactly 45 seconds.

New Video: Goapele Performs at Raheem DeVaughn Radio Show

Goapele had a private performance for the Raheem DeVaughn Radio Show. She performed several songs, with her hit single ‘Play’ featured in the video above. Goapele’s album Break Of Dawn has been met with positive reviews across the board. Pick up your copy of on iTunes now.

New Music: Break Of Dawn by Goapele

After 6 years on hiatus, Goapele is returning with a brand new album Break of Dawn, which can be previewed by listening below.

New Video: Goapele Interviewed by Out Da Box TV

Out Da Box TV brings us a brand new interview with Goapele to talk about a variety of distinct topics, including her love for music, dealing with the youth, her outlook on life as taught by her activist parents, and keeping humble in the music industry. She also shared some of the responses, she received from the success of her famous single Closer. Goapele new album titled Break Of Dawn is set to be released on 10/24/2011.

New Music: Play Remix by Goapele ft Rafael Casal

Rafael Casal brings us a remix to Goapele's Play

MP3 Download: Play Remix by Goapele ft Rafael Casal

Rafael Casal is hard at work on the new Whoville LP with some new poems, and a few episodes of Just The Tip.

New Video: Goapele Performs Play at Taste of Soul

No U Aint Radio brings us some footage of Goapele performing her new track Play at the Taste of Soul

Pre Order Goapele's Break Of Dawn Now

After 6 years on hiatus, Goapele is returning with a brand new album Break of Dawn, which will release October 24th and is available now for pre-order.

New Video: Play by Goapele

Goapele connects with John Mazyck & Dahveed to bring us the official video for Play, Produced by Electric Thunderbolt (Dan Electric and Teddy Thunderbolt) this track will be featured on Goapele's new album titled Break of Dawn which is set to be release on 10/24/2011. Play is available now on iTunes or simply click on the image below.