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THE REGINA BELLE INTERVIEW: Baby Come to Christ by Mona Austin THE REGINA BELLE INTERVIEW: Baby come to Christ By Mona Austin (May 23, 2008) In the late eighties every "Quiet Storm" DJ on the planet was playing "Baby Come to Me," the bellowing slow jam by Regina Belle that seemingly seduced the charts overnight. Into the nineties, Belle manufactured numerous hit love songs -- "Is This Love?," "Make It Like It Was," "Show Me the Way," and "All I Want Is Forever" (with JT Taylor of Kool & The Gang) -- all well written and colored by her feminine tenor tones. Whether in a duet or alone, Regina was the embodiment of soulful grown folks music and one of the most recognizable and celebrated R&B vocalists of that period. She has four Grammys and an Oscar to her credit for "A Whole New World" (with Peabo Bryson for the Alladin soundtrack), a song that broadened her appeal to a pop audience. With formal college training at the Manhattan School of Music and Rutgers in Opera and Jazz, there are few genres she hasn't touched. Next stop: gospel. It has been the songstress' career-long wish to record a gospel album. With the recent release of "Love Forever Shines" - her first gospel recording - Belle, 44, has now joined the fray of mainstream artists who at some point return to their musical beginning, the church. In her case, she pulls from her days in the choir at Mt. Calvary Baptist church in Englewood, New Jersey where she was raised and from her family's deep roots in North and South Carolina. Her contemporary and good friend Shirley Murdock who has walked a parallel path personally and professionally (both were leading ladies in R&B and are now first ladies in their husbands' churches), appears on the album in a duet entitled "I Call on Jesus." Backed by the rare partnership of two record labels, Pendulum Records and Walker Davis Entertainment, Belle and Gospel are a winning combination. The first single, "God is Good" charted as the number one Most Active Record and the number one Most Added Record at Gospel Radio during its first week of release. Her brother and only sibling, Bernard Belle arranged and produced several songs on the 14-track album. As Belle returns to her musical roots, love abides. Mona Austin: You've had an opportunity to sing before various audiences including The President. When you play to a church audience how different is it from when you perform before your R&B fans? Regina Belle: Actually when I did the thing at the White House it was a tribute to Shirley Caesar so that was pretty much the same. But, in terms of it being different than when I'm on the road, the thing that I try to concentrate on mostly when I'm performing is that I do the very best I can so they can forget about what's going on at home and I can take them some place else and bring some peace into their lives. .When I'm ministering that's totally different because that's a responsibility and liability that God holds me to. I think I have a bigger responsibility on my shoulders when I'm singing gospel because now it's about letting people know God is available to you. When you start talking like that you gotta go some other places. Sometimes you have to expose some things about yourself. It's totally different. MA: I noticed you have Shirley Murdock on the project. Both of you were prominent in R&B around the same time, now you're both in gospel. What's it like having a friend on common ground? RB: It's wonderful being able to talk to her about different things. She's been there and understands when you say, 'I'm not sure.' Things that we may question about this aspect of music. Shirley's real easy to talk to. She's always willing to lend her ear and myself back to her with anything she wants to talk about. MA: Not everyone understands when you have a calling to minister to both "the world" and the Body (of Christ). Have you received any resistance since you decided to do both R&B and gospel? RB: No, not much actually. I think that's because when people listened to my music there was standard of integrity that has always been upheld. My grandmother is almost a hundred years old, she's 98. My mother and father are still living and they are getting ready to celebrate 60 years in marriage. I come from a long line of marriages in my family. So the things that I sing about--love, people staying together-- I talk about all these different things that hold families together. I think because of that it's easier for people to "swallow" what I'm doing, as opposed to maybe some other folks (not to be judgmental), but like R. Kelly. That might be difficult for them. God can do all things. Just like he changed Paul who was a killer of Christians, he can work on R. Kelly. He can work on whomever, but the point of the matter is that God can use whomever and whenever he pleases. I hope that people understand that when God does something he doesn't always do it in the conventional way. MA: You definitely have always projected a nice image, but I can't say that I've thought of it as a family image. I know I'm not alone in recalling that you were thought of as very sexy and sultry. RB: (Laughter) Wow! Really? MA: Ms. Belle come on. RB: I've known that people have been very pleased with my music and that's what I've tried to concentrate on. Sexy and sultry? I don't know. When they introduced me they used to say 'sultry', but I just thought of that as a title. MA: But there is a meaning behind that title. "Baby Come to Me" -- that is one of the most sexual, sensual songs that I've ever heard. And we are adults. RB: But even with "Baby Come to Me" I'm talking about monogamous love. I ain't talkin' about a spare and a pair. MA: A what? RB: A spare and a pair. Girl, I heard that and I thought I would lose my mind. I was like "a spare and a pair"? MA: What does that mean? RB: In other words: one man ain't enough. I was actually at a Luther Vandross and Anita Baker concert and I heard a woman say that years and years ago. I thought to myself gosh, I have issues just trying to deal with my husband, I can't imagine dealing with two or three men at one time. That would drive me nuts. So even with "Baby Come to Me" and the songs that I sing I've always tried to make sure that I've tried to maintain the integrity behind the music. Even if I talk about love I've gotta be careful that I'm talking about monogamous love or not talking about seeing someone else's man because that's just not my thing. MA: Understood. Speaking of pure music, true love will never die, long after love has lost its shine (a line from "Love Has Lost Its Shine"). That is where your new album gets its title, "Love Forever Shines." Talk about why you decided to extend that theme to your gospel album's message. RB: Actually "Love Has Lost Its Shine" was done by Gladys Knight prior to me and it was called "Glitter." Basically the song is saying after that first kiss or after your "representative" wears off- because you know when a man first meets a woman he don't really let out all of the bad stuff, she kinda gets eased into it-it takes some time to know who you're dealing with so I always say when you first meet someone you meet their representative. "After Love Has Lost Its Shine" is saying that after that person wears off, I still love you and I'll still be in love with you because the longer I know you the more in love I'm gonna be with you. That song was dedicated to my grandparents because before my grandfather passed away they had been married for 61 years. They didn't just talk the talk. They was about real love. "Love Forever Shines" is talking about love in a whole 'nother aspect. It talks about that there is a place in God that despite the fact all hell may be breaking loose in your life, when you build that relationship with God there's a place of peace, despite what's going on. MA: Which of your songs encourages you when you're going through difficult times? RB: "I'll Never Leave You Alone" MA: Why so? RB: Because I wrote that song about 8 years ago when I was going through something kinda heavy. I remember just beginning to pray and cryin' out to the Lord and while I was praying I just heard a voice say 'I'll never leave you alone.' I began to write that song down in the hotel. That song inspires me and motivates me. That song inspires me and lifts me up because even in my darkest times, God embraces me and lets me know I'm not alone. MA: You got to sing with Melvin Williams.
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