Ndegeocello’s magic is felt on every track of her 2018 project “Ventriloquism.” When she covers TLC’s “Waterfalls,” one of the biggest songs ever is unrecognizable. One of her biggest hits is a cover of Bill Withers’s “Who Is He (And What Is He To You)” that she released in 1996. That, combined with her ability to find a hanging thread on a song and fearlessly pull it, has allowed her to give well-known, mostly R&B songs of the last few decades a new life. Ndegeocello, who grew up in the District and started her career as a bass player for local go-go bands, has a distinct bluesy voice packaged in folksy delivery. ![]() Meshell Ndegeocello takes a song you probably know, deconstructs it, then reconstructs it inside your ears.
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