Kirk Whalum
Kirk Whalum (born July 11, 1958) is an American smooth jazz saxophonist and songwriter. He toured with Whitney Houston for more than seven years and soloed in her single "I Will Always Love You", the best-selling single by a female artist in music history.
Whalum has recorded a series of well received solo albums and film soundtracks, with music ranging from pop to R&B to smooth jazz. Kirk’s musical accomplishments have brought him a total of 12 Grammy nominations. He won his first Grammy award in 2011 for Best Gospel Song (“It’s What I Do”, featuring Lalah Hathaway) alongside lifelong friend and gifted writer, Jerry Peters.
Biography
Kirk Whalum was born in Memphis, Tennessee. He attended Melrose High School and Texas Southern University where he was a member of the World Famous Ocean of Soul Marching Band. In addition to singing in his father's church choir, Whalum learned to love music from his grandmother, Thelma Twigg Whalum, a piano teacher, and two uncles, Wendell Whalum and Hugh "Peanuts" Whalum, who performed with jazz bands around the country. He told John H. Johnson's magazine Ebony Man in a 1994 profile, "The music I like to play and write encompasses the four elements I grew up with: Memphis R&B, gospel, rock, and jazz. The emphasis, though, is on melody, period."
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ALBUMS
- Romance Language released: 2012
- Everything Is Everything: The Music of Donny Hathaway released: 2010
- The Gospel According to Jazz Chapter III released: 2010
- Promises Made-The Millennium Promise Jazz Project released: 2008
- Roundtrip released: 2007
- Ultimate Kirk Whalum released: 2007
- Kirk Whalum Performs the Babyface Songbook released: 2005
- Into My Soul released: 2003
- In to My Soul released: 2003
- The Gospel According To Jazz: Chapter II released: 2002
- The Best of Kirk Whalum released: 2002
- Floppy Disk released: 2001
- Hymns in the Garden released: 2001
- Unconditional released: 2000
- Ricky Lawson & Friends: First Things 1st released: 1999
- For You released: 1998
- The Gospel According to Jazz: Chapter 1 released: 1998
- Colors released: 1997
- Joined at the Hip released: 1996
- In This Life released: 1995
- Caché released: 1993
- The Promise released: 1990
- And You Know That! released: 1988
- The Christmas Message released:
Everything Is Everything: The Music of Donny Hathaway
Released 2010- Giving Up
- Someday We'll All Be Free
- We're Still Friends (feat. Musiq Soulchild)
- Love Love Love (feat. Rick Braun)
- A Song for You
- Valdez in the Country (feat. Jeff Golub)
- Je Vous Aime (I Love You)
- You Had to Know (feat. Lalah Hathaway)
- Tryin' Times (feat. Robert Randolph)
- We Need You Right Now
- Voices Inside (Everything Is Everything)
Hymns in the Garden
Released 2001- I Will Trust in the Lord
- Jesus Paid It All
- Christ Is All
- Precious Lord Take My Hand
- Just a Closer Walk With Thee
- My Faith Looks Up to Thee
- Jesus Is All the World to Me
- Fairest Lord Jesus
- Softly and Tenderly
- I Must Tell Jesus
- He's Sweet I Know-He Knows How Much You Can Bear
- I Want Jesus to Walk With Me
- In the Garden
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by: Kirk WhalumSuperman can fly high way up in the sky
'Cause I believe he can
So what I choose to believe can always work out fine
It's all in my mind
I think of his grace and imagine his life
Imagine his life
And learn how to love him
Believe in him who we believing
Is believing right yeah yeah yeah
And ...
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I wanna live wanna learn wanna love you Lord (Lord)
So make me a believer
(Wanna love wanna love wanna love wanna love wanna love wanna you Lord)
I wanna live wanna learn wanna love you Lord (Lord)
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Ooo In Here
And forever keep you near, yes I will
For you never gave a spirit offear (A spirit of fear)
Lord I want to love you
Loving and loving oh Lord is his way
To make you stay wooohoo make you stay make you stay ummm
You know the way to persuade me over to your side
Showed me how deep is your love
You got me to believe
And now I feel so fine
Your Love blows my mind
So people today is the place and the time (The place and the time)
Let me introduce you ooo
Loving and loving oh love is his way
To make you stay make you stay you stay
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