Review Fix Exclusive: Alex Alexander Talks ‘Love Line’ and More

With his two singles “Love Line” and “Hope for Us,” Alex Alexander is an up and coming artist whose main focus is soul music. His goal is to make a name for himself while trying to bring soul to back the forefront. Meeting legendary artists such as Al Green and John Legend, it’s safe to say that he is well versed in the art. Hear how he discusses the music of today and the different experiences while being in the music business.

Review Fix: Who’s your biggest influence in terms of music?

Alex Alexander: Two people come to mind when I think of influence. The first two were Al Green and Shirley Caesar and later Sam Cooke and James Brown. James Brown, Al Green and Sam Cooke because of the way they embrace the melody and bring delivery to the content of a song. James Brown for his enormous amount of energy, the way he entertains and knowing that Michael Jackson, one the world’s greatest icons were influenced by James Brown; I kind of go to the source and learn. Spend hours just studying James Brown and Sam Cooke especially James Brown and how he really entertains the audiences, absolutely phenomenal.

Review Fix: Who have you produced for other than yourself?

Alexander: I produced tributes to the Soul Train shows. I produced at major festivals such as Teánce Culture and Career Festival. I produced shows for the American Heart Association throughout Boston and New York. One big one was at the Apollo, another at City College. I produced events and activities for a music video one was called, “Let’s Get Together.” I produce shows in Soul of America show with a local promoter here in Florida that we played throughout the state and we’re launching that. So I’ve done that kind of stuff more so shows than my own music. I did have a chance to work with some other producers on a couple songs. I got in a movie called “Stick Up Kids”, that was a TV One film a few years ago. I’ve written for a lot of artists, from the Gospel a few legendary artist, written both R&B, Gospel and Pop music. I write I should say, still writing.”

Review Fix: How was your experience with the legendary Al Green?

Alexander: We were on the same television taping show. So I didn’t actually perform with him. That was great. The camera and the shot I was standing, we got some shots in the camera standing right by him. Briefly talking with him. It was great to be on the same show with him to see him live, an icon, an influence to me. Seeing him perform, do his thing I always wanted to do that. That happened in Tennessee at the War Memorial Auditorium. It was really cool.

Review Fix: What is soul music to you? How would you compare it to R&B today?

Alexander: Soul music to me is just like any music. It’s an expression of someone’s experience. I think the difference, how we differentiate soul as a genre from an R&B or Pop is that it has a kind of expression that it is very transparent to the emotions of the experience. So it’s one thing to talk about that experience, it’s another thing to really unveil the emotions in your experience in your conveying the message. I think that soul music it’s label, or it’s “category” seeks to reveal a certain level, a very in depth level of the emotions that other genres. While they share the experience and tell the experience because they were birth out of an experience, it does not reveal or unveil at the level that soul music does. I think that’s what makes the blues and soul music what it is, it touches the soul. Two people can say, “I love you” and one of the people just says it you can feel it at a whole other level because of their vulnerability to reveal or unveil that level of emotion. Therefore, the short of it is, soul music to me it reveals a very in depth emotion of any other genre that I’ve experienced, it allows the artist to go there.