NE-YO is torn over what to do with a treasure trove of music he wrote especially for Michael Jackson before the megastar’s untimely death. The R&B singer is sitting on dozens of songs he penned for Jackson as the late king of pop was preparing to kickstart his career for the final time.
Ne-Yo is one of America’s most bankable songwriters, backing up smash singles for Beyonce and Rihanna with a trail of his own dollar stacking hits. But the star steadfastly refuses to sell off the music he wrote for Jackson and is reluctant to release the songs under his own name out of respect for his idol.
“The songs are sitting in archives but I really don’t know what to do with them,” Ne-Yo said in Sydney. “I can’t sell them on to someone else as that would be disrespectful but I also think it might be disrespectful to bring them out myself.
“Michael told me, ‘I need songs that mean something to somebody and that’s what I need you for’. I was honoured.”
Despite writing a number of tracks for Jackson, the album project was put on hold while the singer shifted his attention towards his This Is It world tour, which was scheduled to begin in London in the summer in 2009.
Source: Telegraph
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