{"id":24346,"date":"2016-11-22T12:03:31","date_gmt":"2016-11-22T12:03:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/?p=24346"},"modified":"2016-11-22T12:03:31","modified_gmt":"2016-11-22T12:03:31","slug":"the-seal-breakers-music-is-an-outburst-of-the-soul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/2016\/11\/the-seal-breakers-music-is-an-outburst-of-the-soul\/","title":{"rendered":"The Seal Breakers: Music Is An Outburst Of The Soul"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"24345\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/f_group_001\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/F_Group_001.jpg?fit=6496%2C4872&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"6496,4872\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"f_group_001\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/F_Group_001.jpg?fit=640%2C480&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"size-full wp-image-24345\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/F_Group_001.jpg?resize=640%2C480&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"f_group_001\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>The Seal\u00a0Breakers, from Brooklyn, New York City, are an R&amp;B\/Pop trio who believe that music is an outburst of the soul, and is what feelings sound like.<\/strong><\/h4>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">[space height=&#8221;10&#8243;]<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Comprising Shea Butta, TaGee Fontaine, and Paula Sheniece, the three make music murals with their songs: painting a broad spectrum of colour\u00a0and sound\u00a0across a variety of\u00a0instruments\u00a0including horns, guitar, piano, and percussion.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">[space height=&#8221;10&#8243;]<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">They have a mature sound combined with a hip, young, contemporary attitude, approaching every note with fearless class, a dynamic vocal range, and a no nonsense approach.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">[space height=&#8221;10&#8243;]<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Check out The Seal Breakers singing &#8216;Is It Possible?&#8217;:<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">[space height=&#8221;10&#8243;]<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/V7S7XHqYNko?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-GB&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">[space height=&#8221;10&#8243;]<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Seal Breakers won the award for Best R&amp;B\/Pop Group at the 2015 Underground Music Awards, and describe their sound as Hip-Pop-Soul. They&#8217;ve appeared on the Lenny Green Show (WBLS 107.5FM), and the ABC7 news programme, &#8216;Here And Now&#8217;. Additionally, they&#8217;ve performed at many famous venues, including BB Kings, and SOBs.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">[space height=&#8221;10&#8243;]<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Seal Breakers&#8217; debut EP, &#8216;Life As We Know It&#8217;, was released in December 2015, and from which the trio released the singles, &#8216;Brooklyn&#8217;, &#8216;Is It Possible?&#8217;, and &#8216;Everything&#8217;.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">[space height=&#8221;10&#8243;]<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/R7ZqBjx_Kyw?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-GB&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">[space height=&#8221;10&#8243;]<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Now they&#8217;re back with their latest track, &#8216;DWTD&#8217; (Dancing With The Devil), accompanied by a great music video. The song has a Caribbean vibe to it, with sensual and tantalising lyrics about a beautiful young lady who takes vocalist TaGee&#8217;s breath away as he sees her on the dance floor.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">[space height=&#8221;10&#8243;]<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NKkYWEfHsgE?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-GB&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">[space height=&#8221;10&#8243;]<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Find out more about The Seal Breakers online on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheSealBreakers\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pg\/thesealbreakers\/\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/thesealbreakers\/\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram<\/a>, and their <a href=\"http:\/\/thesealbreakers.com\" target=\"_blank\">official website<\/a>. &#8216;DWTD&#8217; is available to download and stream\u00a0from <a href=\"http:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/album\/id11363\" target=\"_blank\">iTunes<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/music\/album\/The_Seal_Breakers_D_W_T_D?id=Bpqmuzd4jydg2tsqxmsaqu7aeoy&amp;hl=en\" target=\"_blank\">Google Play<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/album\/id10493\" target=\"_blank\">Apple Music<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/artist\/1IOxg\" target=\"_blank\">Spotify<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B01\" target=\"_blank\">Amazon<\/a>.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Seal Breakers, from Brooklyn, New York City, are an R&#038;B\/Pop trio who believe that music is an outburst of the soul, and is what feelings sound like.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24343,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[57,9,640],"tags":[4275,8231,8230,8229,8227,8226,8228,939,77,370,2601,8225,8223,8224,8222],"class_list":["post-24346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-artists","category-new-releases","category-videos","tag-brooklyn","tag-dancing-with-the-devil","tag-dwtd","tag-everything","tag-here-and-now","tag-is-it-possible","tag-live-as-we-know-it","tag-new-ep","tag-new-release","tag-new-single","tag-new-york-city","tag-paula-sheniece","tag-shea-butta","tag-tagee-fontaine","tag-the-seal-breakers"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5yMhl-6kG","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":67964,"url":"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/2021\/02\/butta-b-rocka-feat-homer-mc-strange-luv\/","url_meta":{"origin":24346,"position":0},"title":"Butta B-Rocka feat. 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