Q+A KENNY THOMAS
NORTH LONDON’S FINEST BLUE-EYED SOULSTER HAS ROLLED WITH LIFE’S PUNCHES AND RETURNED WITH A CAREER-SPANNING BEST OF
BETH SIMPSON
He was the ex-boxer who became the affable face of early 90s pop soul with easy-on-the-ear hits like Outstanding, Thinking About Your Love and Best Of You. But there’s a lot more to Kenny Thomas than meets the eye. He tells Classic Pop how after getting burnt by the music biz in the mid-90s, he switched careers to become a trained acupuncturist, ended up fronting Living In A Box and how his own daughter’s illness has taught him to live in the moment.
You broke through in the early 90s, the peak of the rave era: music not generally known for its soulful qualities. Did it feel as if you were swimming against a musical tide?
I have to correct you on that. Yes, the dance scene exploded around 1989, but at the same time you also had people like Soul II Soul. It was dance music but it wasn’t house and it was soulful. I came off the back of that. Probably, I was the last blue-eyed solo artist to hang over into the 90s, but retaining an 80s kind of sound.
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