Roads
Need You Now
Cuore
The Blower’s Daughter
My Way
Unless You Mean It
Always On My Mind
On a Night Like This
Ave Maria
Falling
Viva La Vida
Chris Mann, Team XTina’s runner up from The Voice has released an album called Roads. Influenced by Pavarotti, Robbie Williams and vintage Sinatra, Chris’ blend of classically-trained tenor and contemporary pop vocals is a sound that’s rare in music today. Said Cee Lo, “He is by far one of the most incomparable vocalists I have ever heard.” Christina Aguilera told him “I feel the heavens open up when you sing”
Roads was released on October 30, a follow up to his Christmas EP that was released on October 9. The album includes producers Keith Thomas (Amy Grant, Vanessa Williams, Charlotte Church, Heather Headley), Walter Afanasieff (Andrea Boecelli, Josh Groban, Celine Dion, Mariah Carey) and Marius de Vries (Jackie Evancho, Josh Groban, PJ Harvey).
Chris was by far not one of my favorites on The Voice last season (but when you are up against Tony Lucca, someone I have had a crush on since I was in 5th grade – it is hard for anyone else to compete!)
The Roads album is really well put together – the accompaniment for each of the songs is simply beautiful when combined with Chris’ voice. I especially love his rendition of Lady A’s “Need You Now”, the second track on the CD.
Christina joins Chris on the track “The Blower’s Daughter” and the duet gave me goosebumps! It is just so beautiful and moving. Wow. I’m impressed.
The combination of songs on the CD is great and it really showcases Chris’ amazing voice. (Especially that note he holds out on My Way! Wow. Wow. Wow.) If you’ve never heard of him or if you weren’t all that into him during The Voice – I recommend you check out the album anyway – I find it hard to believe that you would not be impressed with it.
PREVIEW 4 songs from the album here: http://soundcloud.com/universalrepublic/sets/chris-mann/s-e7O63
Roads is available for purchase at the following links:
iTunes – http://bit.ly/SgkwJb
Amazon – http://amzn.to/XQpJc8
Find out more about Chris at ChrisMannMusic.com
I received a free copy of this CD through One2One Network in order to write this review. By posting this review, I am entered to win a prize drawing. All opinions are 100% mine.