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Soulfusionseven are a collection of musicians originally founded by John Saltwell and Paul Baker to create a live act due to demand following the success of the single Summer Breeze written by John with singer Cheryl Aldridge. The song climbed to number 1 in the official UK soul chart in the summer of 2017 featuring the vocals of Amelia Melody.
It all began in late 2014 when after many years two old friends reunited. John Saltwell is a professional bass player/songwriter from the age of 9 and has been lucky enough to have worked with such artists as Barry White, Carlos Santana, Paul Weller and Simply Red and many more and Soulfusionseven's manager/promotor and producer Paul Baker decided to collaborate on a song that Paul had asked John to write for him with some lyrics he provided, after a few weeks Steppin' up my love was born, using musicians John had worked with over the years and some fresh new talent. Local Hertfordshire singer Dave Goodridge provided a stunning vocal, Mark Whaymand played a great Sax solo that John believes helped the song get to where it did and with the help of Paul’s contacts the song climbed to number 1 in the Amazon Nu Soul chart and remained there for 8 weeks.
Following this success John and Paul returned to John's Cottage Studio to write more music and currently have a collection of songs they are very proud of and that takes you back to their late 70's early 80's roots.
They followed their success with the next single, that was a tribute to the late great Luther Vandross entitled 'Luther'. it created the perfect mood as a follow up single.
In early 2016 'Steppin' up my love' was remixed by a young Japanese producer called Yuki Tashahaki under the pseudonym 'T Groove' and it climbed to number 1 in Japan, number 1 in various other charts and number 6 in the official UK Soul Chart.
In the summer of 2017 they reached number 1in the Official UK Soul chart with their next release 'Summer Breeze' released on DSG records.
In 2018 the band were busy working on new material and concentrating on songs for their first album 'Acquittal of the Ego' due for release around May of 2019.
Various singles followed all reaching top 10 positions in the UK Soul chart and putting Soulfusionseven firmly on the map They released their last single on the 15th February 2019 called 'Slide the remix’ featuring the amazing Carol Black on vocals and Brooklyn based producer Andre Watson aka Big Dre which at the time received a lot of radio airplay and had great feedback.
The band went into rehearsals for live shows in 2020 and following a few member changes did a few low key local shows to gauge audience feedback and it was a huge success for the band, Paul started booking shows to start around late March 2020 then COVID hit and the live shows were all cancelled.
Disappointed and locked down for over 2 months John decided to hit the studio and start writing, co/writing and recording some new material, 22 in fact, recording with the new band members Richard (guitar), Max (drums), Debbie (keys), Tom (percussion) and Jaro (saxophone) remotely John has come up with a fresh new sound for the band and with amazing vocal performances from Dave Goodridge, Amelia Melody, Cheryl Aldridge and Gavin Skeggs, from the beginning John was consulting with Paul throughout the whole process and now Soulfusionseven are very excited to release not only a new single but an Album entitled ‘Balance’.
“I won’t lie if I say I think there are some standout track’s written by myself and Richard Hollman and featuring Singer/ Songwriter Dave Goodridge on vocals and some equally great tracks I wrote solely with Dave that we feel are worthy of success as cross over songs, Dave has really shone for me on these songs and it shows and Richard has proved to be a great song writing partner, Cheryl of course has worked with me for nearly 30 years and her writing and singing talent never fails to amaze me, as for Amelia her voice is beautiful and full of character and Gavin brings a fresh more edgy side to some of the songs which I absolutely love, his jazz feel is great, I’m blessed to have such creative people to work with and for Paul to be there when it all gets too much and for his production skills, thank you all” John.
"We see ourselves as the 'Soulfusionseven Soul Family' we consider Soulfusionseven to be a collaboration of creative minds who are all involved in the making of the music. Our aim is not to change the world or re-invent music. Our aim is simply to get our music into your ears.
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