Keke Wyatt took a hiatus from music after going through several life-altering experiences. She escaped an abusive relationship; had a completed album abandoned once her label went bankrupt; and stepped away to raise her five kids.
Wyatt returns to the music scene with her fourth solo album, Unbelievable.
On the album’s title track, “Unbelievable,” Wyatt begins by expressing the joys of having a love that’s so amazing that it seems like a fairy tale.
Kelly Price and Tweet lend their voices on “Mirror.” Each woman is singing to a mirror and questioning herself about whom and how she has loved.
Wyatt does impressive covers of the songs “Love Under New Management (Miki Howard)” and “Saturday Love (Alexander Oneal and Cherelle),” the latter featuring Ruben Studdard.
But Wyatt is at her best when touching on the personal issues that have haunted her in the past. On “Enough,” she sings about dealing with physical and emotional abuse in a relationship and says, “Can’t be blinded by love because enough’s enough. Heard a million stories; enough’s enough. You gotta let him go. There’s no reason to love; enough’s enough.”
Wyatt ends the album with the inspirational “Tears In Heaven” and a cover of “His Eye Is On the Sparrow.”
Only the sales gods know whether Unbelievable will duplicate the mainstream success of Soul Sista, an album that sold one million copies worldwide, but Wyatt provides a welcoming return to the smooth R&B sound that was prevalent during the late ’90s. –amir shaw
–amir shaw
