Maxwell
American singer-songwriter and record producer · United States · On the map · Musicians · Born 1973 · age 53
Gerald Maxwell Rivera, known mononymously as Maxwell, is an American singer-songwriter and record producer. He rose to prominence following the release of his debut studio album Maxwell's Urban Hang Suite (1996), which received widespread acclaim and spawned the hit singles "Ascension " and "Sumthin' Sumthin'".
Maxwell is read about 430 times a day, in 16 languages.
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The middle day of the days counted, so one week of news cannot move it. The line under it is the last 400 days, one point a day.
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Mathematicians may flatter themselves that they possess new ideas which mere human language is yet unable to express.
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Through the album and its follow ups, Maxwell has been credited - alongside Lauryn Hill, D'Angelo, and Erykah Badu - with popularizing neo soul for mainstream audiences in the late 1990s.
