Posts tagged "Second Chance"
Flyte Brothers 9: El DeBarge's "Sad Songs"

Flyte Brothers 9: El DeBarge’s “Sad Songs”

Smooth it out with El DeBarge in this week’s Flyte Brothers column.

Best Wishes To El DeBarge

I was extremely saddened when I heard that singer El DeBarge entered drug rehabilitation on Monday. He really seemed like he was on the comeback trail after wasting over a decade of his life on addiction. One of the most gifted singers of his generation, El apparently started using drugs in the late Eighties. It completely took over his life in the mid-Nineties, and has led to a laundry list of arrests as well as a period of incarceration a […]

Popblerd! Presents: The Best Albums of 2010 (20-16)

Popblerd’s list of the Top 40 albums of the year reaches its’ second half, featuring albums by Bilal, Erykah Badu, and El DeBarge.

El Yes!: Mr. DeBarge Releases the Video for “Second Chance”

As you know if you are a regular reader of this here site, I am VERY excited for the return of El DeBarge later this month. It’s pretty safe to say that “Second Chance” is one of the two or three albums scheduled for release this fall that I am anticipating the most. Taking another step towards a well-deserved comeback, the album’s title track now has a video. The clip matches the mood of the song pretty well-it’s reflective but […]

Back for Good? El DeBarge’s “Second Chance”

There are many things I could criticize BET for. Quite frankly, the network that created the lane for Black programming on television has been lapped by Centric and TVOne. Even their annual award show tends to be an exercise in general coonery with a handful of moments that makes the ceremony almost worth watching. This year’s show was no different. Thankfully, BET made up for Chris Brown’s crocodile tears by featuring El DeBarge in two separate segments. El has not released an album […]

Does El DeBarge Deserve a “Second Chance”?

The best thing about Sunday night’s BET Awards? The return of El DeBarge. Looking typically crisp and clean despite his recent incarceration, the singer/songwriter led the crowd through a medley of the hits made famous by his family group DeBarge-“I Like It”, “All This Love”, “Time Will Reveal” and “Rhythm of the Night”. Not only was he hitting impossible falsetto notes without breaking a sweat, but he turned the auditorium into a party with “Rhythm of the Night”, dancing through […]