Raphael Saadiq is an American singer, songwriter, musician, and record producer, and member of AFM Local 47 since 2013. He has been a standard bearer for “old school” R&B since his early days as a member of the multiplatinum group Tony! Toni! Ton\u00e9!<\/p>\n
He has also produced songs for such artists as Joss Stone, D’Angelo, TLC, En Vogue, Kelis, Mary J. Blige, Ledisi, Whitney Houston, Solange Knowles and John Legend.<\/p>\n
He and D’Angelo were occasional members of The Ummah, a music production collective, composed of members Q-Tip and Ali Shaheed Muhammad of A Tribe Called Quest, and J Dilla of the Detroit-based group Slum Village.<\/p>\n
Watch this video of Saadiq performing “Good Man” from his critically acclaimed 2011 album Stone Rollin’, <\/em>recorded with L.A.’s top union session musicians at Ocean Way in Hollywood:<\/p>\n