![]() The record, which eventually went double-platinum, was designed to pay tribute to black soul groups of the 1960s and 70s that had influenced Raphael Wiggins (who changed his last name to Saadiq in the mid-1990s), his brother D’Wayne Wiggins, and their cousin Timothy Christian Riley. 25 years ago today (June 22), Oakland R&B/soul group Tony! Toni! Toné! released its third and most successful studio album, Sons of Soul. But if you really want to mark the genre’s birth, you have to look a little earlier in the decade at an album Saadiq helped create.
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