Review: Ari Lennox, the D.C.-born R&B star, said this would be her last tour. But with the help of her hometown crowd, she seemed to be singing a different song.
, it must be connected to that. Sure, Lennox attended the Duke Ellington School of the Arts. Yes, she knows her Roberta Flack and her Amerie. But more than anything, Lennox knows how her city sings.
Inside the Howard Theatre on Wednesday night, the city was at top volume, pushing Lennox’s lean melodies through big smiles, helping to fill the room with whatever happiness sounds like. Clad in a tasseled one-piece seemingly made from a crushed disco ball, Lennox sounded quite literally at home, pacing the stage in gentle steps as her band served hard grooves, the timbre of her voice perforating the audience’s nonstop singalong like a photon beam. She never sang over the crowd. Only through.
Lennox’s 2019 debut album, “Shea Butter Baby,” owes a little more to the ’90s neo-soul of Erykah Badu and D’Angelo than “Age/Sex/Location,” but onstage, those earlier songs felt like they belonged entirely to Lennox, plus everyone else lucky enough to be under this roof. The elated thump of “
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