Music runs deep in Cleveland native Orlando Watson’s family. “I grew up around music,” says the local singer-songwriter in a recent phone interview. At the...
“I grew up around music,” says the local singer-songwriter in a recent phone interview. At the end of last year, Watson released, a terrific album of tunes that draws from soul, R&B, spoken word and hip-hop. “My grandfather was a pastor in Painesville for 40 or 50 years. My mother played organ and my aunt played piano and my other aunt was a choir director and sang and I played drums. I was around music on my father’s side.
“I fell in love with spoken word there,” he says. “I took a liking to a lot of the poetry. My cadences and rhythm patterns come from the drums; it’s all very percussive.” “My son motivated me to start my own label,” says Watson. “I have two little ones, and I’m always thinking about legacy and longevity. When it’s all said and done for me, whether or not I can maintain the tone and timbre of my voice and whether I can walk and perform on stage, I want to leave them with something. I called it Well Said Records because my son’s name is Maxwell. It’ll help if he takes a liking to music, so he’ll have something from it.
“I wrote that song in 2018, and I wanted her and husband to sing on the record,” Watson says. “I’ve known Bri and her husband Jon for a long time. We were supposed to record in 2018, and we had this studio session scheduled, and they had an emergency, so we had to scrap the session. I write with a distinctive vision in mind. I knew I wanted one or both of them on the record. Instead of moving on with a different artist, I just shelved the song. I reached back out to Bri.
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