Raphael Saadiq plays Baloise Session

Raphael Saadiq is an American singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and record producer. Saadiq has been a standard bearer for „old school“ R&B since his early days as a member of the multiplatinum group Tony! Toni! Toné!. In addition to his solo and group career, he has also produced songs for such artists as Joss Stone, D‘Angelo, TLC, En Vogue, Kelis, Mary J. Blige, Ledisi, Whitney Houston, Solange Knowles and John Legend. Music critic Robert Christgau has called Saadiq the „preeminent R&B artist of the ‚90s“. In 2017 Saadiq was nominated for an Oscar in the category „Best Original Song“ for Mighty River, and the Musical Director of the Oscar Award Show.