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The music video takes place in a dim household and some scenes of the video shows five separate women in their beds sleeping. Maxwell served as an Incubus who is in bed with the women in their own scenes. In the final minutes of the video the women all levitate above their beds after reaching a state of euphoria by the Incubus.
Fort Knox Five - What make ya dance (Fort Knox Recordings, 2010) Maxwell - Pretty Wings (Sony USA, 2009) Caro Emerald - Back It Up (Grandmono, 2009) Fedde Le Grand - Let Me Be Real (Flamingo Recordings, 2009) Smoove & Turrell - You Don't Know (Jalapeno Records, 2009) Zuco 103 - Back Home (Long Tail Recordings, 2009)
Maxwell was born in Brooklyn, New York, the son of a Haitian mother and a Puerto Rican father. His mother grew up in a devout Baptist household in Haiti. [11] [12] [13] Maxwell's father died in a plane crash around 1976 or 1977 when Maxwell was three years old. [14]
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Maxwell has been celebrated and admired for forging his own path and going against the popular music grain ever since he set the R&B world on fire with his 1996 debut album, “Urban Hang Suite.”
BLACKsummers'night also earned Maxwell 2010 Grammy Awards in the categories of Best R&B Album and Best Male R&B Vocal Performance (for "Pretty Wings"). [35] Musician Greg Puciato named BLACKsummers'night his favorite album of 2009. [36] In the 2020 list by Rolling Stone of the Top 500 Albums of All-Time, it was ranked number 467. [37]
The song was written by Maxwell, and Itaal Shur, and he also produced it. It peaked at number eight on the US Billboard R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart, number 36 on the Billboard Hot 100 and number 28 on the UK Singles Chart. The music video was directed by Liz Friedlander. The B side of the single is "Lock You Up N' Love Fa Days", which was ...
"Pretty Wings" 33 1 1 — — RIAA: Gold [11] BLACKsummers'night "Bad Habits" 71 4 ... (Alicia Keys featuring Maxwell) Girl on Fire: Soundtrack appearances