[MUSIC] Melky Sedeck, “Raw”
Dec. 16th, 2010 06:36 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rfmcdonaldMelky Sedeck is a group with a fairly simple backstory.
The group released a couple of singles afterwards before vanishing after 2001. Despite some positive fan reviews and professional reviews, and despite Wyclef Jean’s stature, nothing more came of them. The only song of theirs I had heard before was their 1998 single “Raw”; I only knew of that song after I encountered it during my brief career as a journalist at the UPEI student newspaper; and I only remembered that song by chance, for the first time in a decade, after I saw a physical single available for purchase on the racks of Sonic Boom Record Store down in the Annex this afternoon.
The younger siblings of the Fugees' Wyclef Jean, the sister-brother duo of Melky and Sedeck Jean were born in Brooklyn, the product of a Haitian-American family; their father was an ordained minister who led a congregation in New Jersey, and the children regularly performed gospel music at his church. While Melky later studied classical music, Sedeck attended law school, but played in a band on the side; both quit college in 1993, however, and two years later recorded their debut effort "I've Got a Love, " later featured on the soundtrack to the film Love Jones. The duo then signed a record deal, but when their new label folded they returned to the studio to work on a demo recording which ultimately landed them in the middle of an intense bidding war; finally signing with MCA, in 1999 Melky Sedeck issued their debut LP, Sister and Brother.
The group released a couple of singles afterwards before vanishing after 2001. Despite some positive fan reviews and professional reviews, and despite Wyclef Jean’s stature, nothing more came of them. The only song of theirs I had heard before was their 1998 single “Raw”; I only knew of that song after I encountered it during my brief career as a journalist at the UPEI student newspaper; and I only remembered that song by chance, for the first time in a decade, after I saw a physical single available for purchase on the racks of Sonic Boom Record Store down in the Annex this afternoon.
