Retro-soul songstress Kendra Forster released her new self-titled album today featuring her single “Promise to Stay Here”. Bossip recently chatted it up with the Grammy award winning artist about funkadelic music, her work with D’Angelo on Black Messiah, and addressing pressing social issues through song. When talking about her single, Kendra says that this song embodies the way many of us have felt over the course of our lives when we think we’ve found our “soulmate”. I think it’s really about that feeling that you feel when you at least think that you found the one or your soulmate or whatever it is and that feeling that you have especially if you feel that way about each other that you don’t wanna leave that. I wrote this song 7 years ago and I was touring 85%of the year with George Clinton and Parliament Funkadelic. And I had a long distance relationship with a young gent who was in school and really trying to find his way. I mean he was much younger than me by a few years. I was so in love with this person and I felt like they were the one. I’m always afraid of being the one left in love. So I was asking them to promise to stay here. I was promising to stay here. And then of course one finds themselves offering everything, the best of themselves in return. Like If you do, I’ll make it worth your while…the best of me you have that because that’s how much I love you. It’s about that kind of love. Did you like the single? See what Kendra has to say about working with her producer Kelvin Wooten after the flip! Plus, get a link to purchase the album.
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