Back in January celebrated soul and jazz chanteuse/keyboardist and sometime Prince collaborator, KANDACE SPRINGS announced she was putting the finishing touches to a new album. The announcement came via the release, as a single, of that album’s title track and ‘Run Your Race’ won plenty of plaudits for its gentle, emotional, gospel-tinged sound. Much of the emotion, it seemed, stemmed from the fact that song was a tribute to Kandace’s late father Kenneth “Scatt” Springs. You may know that Mr. Springs fronted his own R&B band and sang backup for everyone from Garth Brooks to Aretha Franklin. However, he sadly passed away in 2021. On release Kandace explained the song’s meaning and title: “Dad was a track star in college. Some of the records he set still haven’t been broken. Due to health reasons, he spent the last two years of his life in a wheelchair, unable to run. Now he’s finally free to run his race.” The second single from the album was released at the beginning of March . It was another gentle and emotion-tugging affair – a cover of Billie Eilish’s ‘What Was I Made For’ (which was written for the ‘Barbie’ movie). Kandace made the song uniquely her own giving it a gentle, jazz-tinged shading – quite different to the original. The full 14 track album wins release this Friday, 5th April and previews reveal that those gentle, jazz-tinged shadings are the album’s dominant sonic template. We’re told that it was during the various pandemic lockdowns that Kandace decid