The One

The One

With one of the most beloved voices in music, GRAMMY nominated R&B icon Eric Benet<br>will release his 6th album, aptly entitled THE ONE. Featuring the fi rst<br>single, Real Love, which has become a Top 5 Urban AC smash, THE ONE marks a<br>moment of positive transition in his life and lyrically speaks to the many new beginnings<br>developing in his career and family including the recent marriage to Manuela<br>Testolini and the birth of his second daughter in December of 2011. THE ONE will<br>also be the fi rst album released on Benet s newly formed record label Jordan House<br>Records, in partnership with EMI. As Benet grew up in Milwaukee in the 1970s at<br>the time one of the most segregated parts of the US music was a huge part of his<br>family home, the Jordan house. At the Jordan house you were guaranteed to hear<br>singing, different instruments being played, and a musical celebration happening every<br>time you visited. Music was truly woven into the fabric of his upbringing. He describes<br>THE ONE as a very contemporary approach to old-school songwriting integrity and<br>will include with Benet s signature mid-70s soul groove, a variety of instruments from<br>strings to horns, a lullaby for his new baby girl, a confirmed duet with his first daughter<br>India Benet, and more special guests including the unexpected Lil Wayne, who has<br>many times been quoted in the press as a huge Benet fan. To his thousands of fans who<br>have followed Eric Benet over the years, this album will truly be THE ONE.