Um.. as far as sounding black, you dumbasses, people of color usually have a distinctive tone that tells you that they are of black decent. I have noticed it in America, the UK, Africa, and the islands. It's the same with whites! It has nothing to do with being proper or sounding ghetto, it's the actually tone. That's why when you hear someone's voice on the phone and they have a tone of a "white person‘s" and you see them and find out they're black , in you're mind you are a bit surprised. It's not racial at all, that's just life. It's more of sounding like the stereotypical race because not all races talk like "how they're perceived." Anyway, I can’t get into this chick. She tries too hard and it amazes me how whites always succeed when they release soul and Jazz music but blacks never do. It has nothing to do with promo because this chick had people going crazy over her with just her youtube videos. Why are people so obsessed with color when it comes to being mainstream? I love, love Amy Winehouse so I don’t care if a white person makes jazz or soul, but I just always found that odd and unfair.