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“Soul music is releasing a demon that turns into a beautiful, cathartic exercise,” Questlove told the Times in 2025.

As musical theater fans await Part 2 of the blockbuster Broadway adaptation, the woman behind Elphaba is releasing an album of softer, more intimate soul music.

With its sensual grooves and breathy vocals, “I Forgive You” also represents a return to Erivo’s roots in the soul music she loved “before I met the musical theater version of myself,” as she puts it.

“Soul music is releasing a demon that turns into a beautiful, cathartic exercise,” he says.

Roberta Flack used her upbringing as a classically trained pianist to redefine the textural and emotional terms of modern soul music.