MAXWELL

        Maxwell - Till The Cops Come Knockin' (extended mix parts 1,2)
     

    Gerald Maxwell Rivera (born May 23, 1973), Maxwell  a Grammy Award Winning American R&B artist, was born in Brooklyn, New York. His father was Pentecostal and raised in Vieques, Puerto Rico. His mother grew up in a devout Baptist household in Haiti.
 Maxwell recorded some of the most ambitious R&B of his time, becoming wildly popular and often earning critical raves in the process. What was more, his recurring theme of romantic monogamy set him apart from the vast majority of his bump'n'grind lover-man contemporaries.

 Maxwell adopted his middle name as his stage moniker, keeping his real identity a closely guarded secret out of concern for his family's privacy. Born of Puerto Rican and black Caribbean stock, Maxwell suffered the loss of his father (in a plane crash) when he was just three years old. The experience made him a deeply religious child, and he first began singing in his Baptist church.

Still, he didn't really get serious about music until age 17, when he began writing his own songs using a cheap Casio keyboard given to him by a friend. Initially influenced by early-'80s urban R&B, he progressed rapidly, and by 1991 he was performing on the New York club scene, despite ridicule from classmates who couldn't imagine the shy, awkward teenager doing anything of the sort. After making a name for himself, he signed a recording contract with Columbia in 1994.

           Sumthin' Sumthin' Mellowsmoothe


          Maxwell - urban suite theme


           Maxwell - Ascension (don't ever wonder)


           Maxwell- For Lovers Only with lyrics


           MAXWELL "Softly"


           Maxwell - Luxury:Cococure (Prologue, Monologue, Epilogue)