★★★★★
Since she first gained notice for singing the hook on Notorious B.I.G.'s "Mo Money, Mo Problems," Kelly Price has struggled to find a commercial profile to match her powerhouse pipes. Kelly, her first secular album since 2003's Priceless, probably won't reverse that trend. Whereas Price's first three albums suggested that her songwriting voice was nearly as strong as her singing voice, it's the writing on Kelly that makes the album so pedestrian...
- www.slantmagazine.com
2011-05-23
★★★★★
After an eight-year hiatus from R&B, Kelly Price returns with a set that is arguably her best since her 1998 debut, Soul of a Woman. Kelly, Price's sixth studio album, comes nearly a year after a little nugget of a song called "Tired" began to make its way across the internet and eventually climbed the Billboard chart to become a Top 40 R&B hit and a Grammy nominee for Best R&B Female Vocal...
- www.soultracks.com
2011-05-09
★★★★★
Kelly Price is in no way a stranger to Gospel music. Raised in the church and a former member of the New York Restoration Choir, the DefSoul artist has always brought a churchy edge to her popular R&B;/soul offerings. With powerful "B-side" Gospel cuts as "Lord of All" and "I Know Who Holds Tomorrow", as well as part of the heralded trio who sang "God's Favor" on The Tri-City project tricity4...
- www.gospelflava.com
2010-12-07
★★★★★
Halfway to what every diva has to learn-pipes are not enough ("At Least [The Little Things]," "Married Man").
- www.robertchristgau.com
2009-07-17
★★★★★
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- www.robertchristgau.com
2009-07-10
★★★★★
You've already had
a taste of Kelly Price. Her soaring backup vocals, arrangements, and
songwriting have padded hits by Puffy and his Bad Boy family,
Mariah Carey, and Brandy. One listen to her debut (Soul of a Woman) makes clear
that Price's poignant vocals rise above her peers'. But without
the sugar-pop hooks and samples that dominate the charts, Soul
will move only the adult crowd, until the remixers come calling.
B
- ew.com
2009-06-12
★★★★★
"Mirror mirror on the wall, who's the baddest diva of them all?" asks Kelly Price at the start of her second effort, Mirror, Mirror. Well, this gospel-trained showstopper comes close, despite a penchant for souled-out clichés. Still, scorching ballads like "Married Man" (a "sequel" to her '98 smash "Friend of Mine") and the hip-hop "Like You Do" (a duet with Method Man) demonstrate a welcome un-diva-like approachability. B
- ew.com
2009-06-12
★★★★★
Studio veteran Kelly Price's church-cured pipes and diva pride having endeared her to the R&B; faithful, her 1998 Soul of a Woman played to those strengths. But the strengths were also limitations -- a voice doesn't make you Aretha Franklin, just as self-reliance doesn't make you Mary J. Blige. So the unconverted will be glad to learn that Price doesn't rest content with the ho-hum press-release claim that her new Mirror Mirror tells "Kelly Price's story...
- www.rollingstone.com
2009-06-08
★★★★★
Ever since she emerged from the
background-vocal booths of Aretha Franklin and Mariah Carey, much has been made of singer/songwriter Kelly Price's physical appearance. Her substantial Slim-Fasting between 1998's Soul of a Woman and 2000's self-consciously titled Mirror Mirror garnered more press than the records' weighty R&B; tunes...
- www.blender.com
2009-03-21
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