Is it me, or is Lemar not the best singer in the UK? He is fantastic. I love soft brown sugar on my breakfast cereal mixing with the milk, and his voice is soft brown sugar mixing with music. His latest charting song “If there’s any justice” is an earworm. An earworm is a tune that gets stuck in your ear and won’t go away, sometimes lasting all day. Sometimes lasting all week.
The quality of his voice is superior to Stevie Wonder, I put it to you, and this particular song is a sort of Stevie Wonder Tamla type song. Without this being an insult to Lemar, you can almost hear this as a Tamla classic from hundreds of years ago. Slip it onto an album of the Best of Talma and nobody would notice.
I first heard of Lemar when he was on the reality TV talent show Fame Academy. He eventually came third, and along the way attracted considerable criticism from the supposed expert Judges, who among their criticisms suggested he was too sure of himself. Meanwhile, they backed and bigged up the eventual winner, David Sneddon … who? Yeah, exactly, he lived the life for less than a year and then disappeared. As did the next year’s winner, Alex Parks. Alex who? Yep, that’s show business!
Meanwhile, Lemar proved he had the real talent. He went out there and did it. And is still doing it. True, he’d been recording and singing live in a semi-professional capacity before Fame Academy, so he certainly was not straight from singing into his hairbrush in front of the mirror like the others, and he had an exceptional amount of support from the black community, especially their press and media which treated him as a hero. But, at the end of the day, it was real talent that meant that we continue to hear his name and have no idea who all the others were, proving, I guess, that there certainly is some justice in this world.
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