Canadian rapper Drake's 2007 mixtape Comeback Season featured a song titled "Closer," which used the chorus (sung by Andreena Mill) and backing instrumental from Goapele's original. It is essentially an expanded version of her self-released debut album, Closer (2001).It is now considered to be a valuable collectors’ item. Several songs on this album were rerecorded for their inclusion on the follow-up album, and it is the only album on which the song "You" (a different composition from the song of the same name on Change it All) is available.
Songkick is the first to know of new tour announcements and concert information, so if your favorite artists are not currently on tour, join Songkick to track Goapele and get concert alerts when they play near you, like 64500 other Goapele fans. The catalog number is an in-joke reference to her birthday and initials of her name. Unfortunately there are no concert dates for Goapele scheduled in 2021. She was born to a Jewish mother, Noa, and an African father, Douglas Mohlabane, who was a South African political exile. soul and R&B singer-songwriter.Her name means 'to go forward' in the South African language Sesotho. After 5,000 copies sold independently, she released a longer album through Hieroglyphics Imperium that got noticed by Columbia Records, which picked up that album for worldwide distribution, added several tracks, and signed her to a contract through Skyblaze Recordings, her family-owned imprint. Goapele (born Goapele Mohlabane on 11th July 1977 in Oakland, California) is a U.S. It was self-released in a strictly limited run, only available at select brick-and-mortar outlets and Web sites throughout the United States. Closer is the debut studio album of R&B singer-songwriter Goapele Mohlabane. Hailed as an original and mesmerizing voice in the new soul genre, singer Goapele has gained national attention since the release of her debut album, Even Closer, in 2001.