Kandace Springs, a gifted 29-year-old singer signed to the jazz bastion Blue Note, is torn between two impulses. On the one hand, she gestures towards the contemporary: Her debut Ep involved the illustrious R&B production duo Pop & Oak; she released a house single this year with renowned dancefloor maven Sandy Rivera. But Springs also hopes to slip back several decades to a point when the walls between jazz, soul and pop were flimsy and allegiance to one did not preclude success in another.
So it makes sense that on her second album,...
So it makes sense that on her second album,...
- 9/10/2018
- by Elias Leight
- Rollingstone.com
While Prince was a funky enigma to most of the world, he was simply a pen pal and friend to Kandace Springs, one of his final protégées. The icon - who was 57 when he died of an accidental overdose in April - discovered the rising star online in 2014 and reached out to her in a direct message on Twitter after seeing her soulful cover of Sam Smith's hit "Stay with Me." "He kept saying, 'All your dreams are going to come true,'" Springs, 27, recalls of their early correspondence. Sure enough, shortly after they got in touch, Prince invited...
- 8/2/2016
- by Jeff Nelson, @nelson_jeff
- PEOPLE.com
While Prince was a funky enigma to most of the world, he was simply a pen pal and friend to Kandace Springs, one of his final protégées. The icon - who was 57 when he died of an accidental overdose in April - discovered the rising star online in 2014 and reached out to her in a direct message on Twitter after seeing her soulful cover of Sam Smith's hit "Stay with Me." "He kept saying, 'All your dreams are going to come true,'" Springs, 27, recalls of their early correspondence. Sure enough, shortly after they got in touch, Prince invited...
- 8/2/2016
- by Jeff Nelson, @nelson_jeff
- PEOPLE.com
Ever the prescient mentor, Prince knew Kandace Springs was going to be the next "Hot Thing" - and he took her under his wing. Raised in Nashville, Springs grew up in both a creative city and family (her father was a singer), so she got into music at a young age; she learned to play piano at 10 then starting singing at 13. "A friend of my father's fell on hard times and was living out on the street, and he had this old, vintage upright piano, and my dad offered to keep it at our house," Springs, 27, tells People, recalling her performing roots.
- 7/27/2016
- by Jeff Nelson, @nelson_jeff
- PEOPLE.com
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