{"id":2444270,"date":"2019-05-16T08:00:59","date_gmt":"2019-05-16T14:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=835588"},"modified":"2019-05-16T08:00:59","modified_gmt":"2019-05-16T14:00:59","slug":"marco-mckinnis-tried-to-sing-in-secret-but-the-people-wouldnt-let-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/music-news\/marco-mckinnis-tried-to-sing-in-secret-but-the-people-wouldnt-let-him\/","title":{"rendered":"Marco McKinnis Tried to Sing in Secret, But the People Wouldn\u2019t Let Him"},"content":{"rendered":"
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There\u2019s a typical narrative attached to acrobatic vocalists: Enthusiasm for singing as youngsters, a moment when they reveal their precocity to the world, and then the establishment of irrepressible upward momentum.  <\/span><\/p>\n

This was not quite the path taken by the young R&B<\/a> singer Marco McKinnis when he was growing up in Virginia. \u201cInitially I started rapping because I was too shy to try singing,\u201d he says. \u201cI kept my singing secret from my family. My parents didn\u2019t know.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n

Some secrets are too good to keep quiet forever. When McKinnis started to put music on SoundCloud, \u201cpeople were like, we need you to keep uploading.\u201d Partially as a result of that encouragement, h<\/span>e is now a handful of singles and an EP into a major-label singing career for Republic Records. Today he releases \u201cDeep,\u201d a probing soft-soul ballad that summons an impressive lineage. During the Nineties, a series of R&B hitmakers \u2014 Keith Sweat, Dru Hill and Ginuwine \u2014 all released different songs asking the same blunt, better-answer-this-right question: \u201cHow deep is your love?\u201d In \u201cDeep,\u201d McKinnis stumbles on the same line of inquiry.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201c\u2018Deep\u2019 is about a relationship between an older woman and a young man that accidentally falls for her,\u201d McKinnis explains. \u201cIt ain\u2019t easy dealing with somebody older than you. They\u2019ve experienced things you haven\u2019t. No matter if y\u2019all are together or just doing your thing, the idea is growing through life, rather than going through life.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cDeep\u201d is full of sly melodic bravado; at a time when tunefulness is often a secondary consideration, McKinnis still enjoys hitting notes for notes\u2019 sake. He taught himself to sing by \u201cjust listening to songs and trying to imitate \u2014 Lloyd, Anthony Hamilton, Ne-Yo, gospel.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Maybe that\u2019s partly why he gets so much enjoyment from adding layers and counter-melodies to his tracks. \u201cI used to OD on harmonies,\u201d McKinnis says. \u201cPicking notes to fit in the same pocket that sound different but come together in a little sandwich \u2014 that just made me feel different. I pick notes that aren\u2019t on key and tuck them under, lower the volume, to make everything sound more full.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cDeep\u201d will appear on the singer\u2019s second EP, E-Merse<\/em>, June 14. Expect more harmonies.<\/span><\/p>\n

via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There\u2019s a typical narrative attached to acrobatic vocalists: Enthusiasm for singing as youngsters, a moment when they reveal their precocity to the world, and then the establishment of irrepressible upward momentum.   This was not quite the path taken by the young R&B singer Marco McKinnis when he was growing up in Virginia. \u201cInitially I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2444270","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-19 05:47:52","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSPN The Valley's Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2444270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2444270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2444270\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2444270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2444270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2444270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}