(November 4, 2025) Sheree Brown has always put her heart and soul in the music. After making noise in the early days in the 1980’s with two solo albums for Capitol Records, the talented singer-songwriter with a style so reminiscent of Minnie Riperton pushed forward with her own compositions while also working with top tier musicians like Abraham Laboriel, Patrice Rushen, Paul Jackson, Jr., even Stevie Wonder.
Sheree hasn’t slowed down. Not one bit. With an anthology of albums already assembled in her ‘Messages From the Soul’ series, she’s preparing to drop her third installment and has worked up a new lead single that will make you “put on your dancing shoes.” On “I’m Gonna Rock (Bop, Bop),” Brown fires up a smooth groove jam marinated in mellow funk and the best of grown folks’ R&B. Blessed with rapturous backing vocals, an intoxicating chorus and sassy horns (including a glowing trumpet solo), this track captures the ear instantly and hooks you in for what’s yet to come from her pen. In her words, Brown was fully motivated to create something for this moment. “I wanted to create something joyful at a time when the world needs it most,” she says. She continues: “It’s also about celebrating the universal power of music and dance, a power I’ve witnessed all over the world, particularly among my friends and supporters across the pond.”
As a companion piece to the empowering book Messages From the Soul from Brown’s husband Douglass Johnson, Sr., the forthcoming album will feature this single along with contributions from Grammy-nominated virtuoso Patrice Rushen. It will also serve as a full circle moment as the album’s cover art photography will feature work from Bobby Holland, the mastermind photographer behind her ‘80’s Capitol releases and many others, including Stevie Wonder (In Square Circle), Patrice Rushen (Straight From the Heart and Now), Quincy Jones (The Dude), George Duke (George Duke and Snapshot) and several titles by the Gap Band.
Check out “I’m Gonna Rock (Bop, Bop)” and let us know if you’re boppin’ to the music.
By J Matthew Cobb
