N'Dea Davenport

N'Dea Davenport is best-known for the four years she spent with the Brand New Heavies, a predominantly British, London-based retro-soul/funk outfit that was quite popular in Great Britain in the '90s, but recalled '70s favorites like Tower of Power, the Average White Band, Earth, Wind & Fire and Rufus & Chaka Khan. Because Davenport has been closely identified with the United Kingdom's R&B scene, she has often been compared to British R&B artists like Mica Paris, Lisa Stansfield, and Caron Wheeler (formerly of Soul II Soul). But unlike those artists, Davenport didn't grow up i...