In back-to-back tracks, he slid from boom-bap soul to vulnerable a cappella to uptempo electro-funk. So when it came time for his 2010 debut, All I Want Is You, Miguel flouted tradition by moving elegantly, sexily, both within and beyond his assigned genre. The singer/songwriter born Miguel Jontel Pimentel (Los Angeles, 1985) was drawn to music’s insider/outsiders from the beginning, mimicking the moves of Michael Jackson at family gatherings at age three, and later drawing both artistic and sartorial inspiration from the likes of David Bowie, Prince, and Jimi Hendrix. Miguel’s sound evolves every time he encounters a new way to express love-and as one of pop’s friskiest experimentalists, that means his career is a study in subverting the very notion of a conventional R&B star.
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