![]() For Seal, “Kiss From A Rose” was an experiment he wanted to see what he could do by layering his own voice. Seal couldn’t play any instruments then, so he did the whole thing a cappella. This was 1987, nearly a decade before the song reached #1. During that stretch of time, he wrote and recorded the first version of “Kiss From A Rose” on a four-track recorder. Seal didn’t think of himself as a musician, but a music teacher and a girlfriend both encouraged him after hearing him sing.Įventually, Seal started recording demos, but labels weren’t interested. When Seal was 17, his father died, and he moved into a squat, living there while studying architecture. Seal’s father was abusive, and his scars come from a rare version of lupus that he contracted as a young man. (When Seal was born, the #1 song in America was Paul & Paula’s “ Hey Paula.”) Seal spent part of his childhood with a foster family before being returned to his parents. Seal Henry Olusegun Olumide Adeola Samuel was born in London, the son of a Nigerian mother and a Brazilian father. Over his career, Seal has only notched one week atop the Hot 100, but that’s been enough to give him his own dreamlike presence in our cultural imagination. ![]() Seal’s trip to the top of the American charts was a long, complicated one. “Kiss From A Rose” is an unearthly song, and a big part of its strange, uncanny vibe is the particular gravitas of Seal himself, a man so beautiful that he makes intense facial scars look sexy. ![]()
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