(October 18, 2024) Trey Lorenz is best known for his 1992 single “Someone To Love” and for his work with Mariah Carey as a backing vocalist — most notably on their cover of The Jackson 5’s “I’ll be There.”
Lorenz’s self-titled debut album revealed him as a talented singer who could handle ballads such as the aforementioned “Someone To Love” and the remake of the Commodores’ “Just to Be Close to You,” while also diving into an up-tempo, New Jack Swing cut like “Wipe All My Tears Away.” He could embody Marvin Gaye on the lush and romantic “Baby I’m in Heaven.”
Lorenz showcased his vocal and topical range on his second album Mr. Mista. That album included “Pisces,” which again pared him with Carey and the brassy and funky Southern Soul banger “Propa Thang.” This song along with Stax influenced ballad “Over & Over Again” took Lorenz back to his South Carolina roots where blues, Southern Soul and classic R&B are a part of the musical atmosphere.
With “Magic,” Lorenz’s latest single – two decades after his last solo album – he returns to those roots. Magic is a mid-tempo cut that finds Lorenz singing about being so enchanted by a woman that he cannot tell her no. The song has laid back sound that fuses blues with some on the one funk on the bass line. Check out Trey Lorenz new Southern Soul cut “Magic” here.
By Howard Dukes
