Roland Clark, Deep House Songsmith House Music Producer, Songwriter and Vocalist.
Past Aliases: Houseboy, Keita, People, Roland Clark presents Digital Pimps, Roland Clarke, South Street Player, Urban Soul (note: Urban Soul is a House Music studio project that Roland created)
In Groups: Latanya Hall, Leviticus (2), Urban Soul.
There aren’t many artists works out there that can make you feel deliriously happy and hopelessly sad at the same time. Roland Clark is the exception. Exhibit A: His girlfriend, he sings, is drifting away from him but his tight, drop-dead arrangement simply won’t leave you alone: a late night classic with real heart and genuine funk. In other words, proper house music. His colors do not always contrast. Song In May is an ode to his favorite month, on which Roland Clark sings about sweet, springtime bliss and the wonderful emotions that go with it.
Roland Clark is a featured vocalist on many Fatboy Slim releases. His voice is sometimes described as wildly erotic, soulful, loving, and deep. On Fatboy Slim’s “Halfway Between the Gutter and the Stars,” several tracks are indelibly imprinted with Rolands lines, especially the final track, “Song for Shelter.” On “Shelter,” Roland Clark, extemporizes a beat poet paean to house music, exalting it as a haven of real-deal family values in a hostile world, I get deep, I get deep, I get deeper He goes on, word-jazzing about how its rhythm “goes in my blood like alcohol
