Omar (UK)

Omar’s ‘Sing (If You Want It)’ album - featuring collaborators including Stevie Wonder, Estelle, Common and Angie Stone - will be re-released by Tru Thoughts on 18th July 2011 with the addition of two new bonus tracks (one of which, the Zed Bias collaboration “Dancing”, is currently riding high on the BBC 1Xtra playlist, and the other is a remix by Bob Sinclar, the multi-million selling producer behind the smash hit “Love Generation”). Omar’s sixth album, ‘Sing (If You Want It)’ is a bona fide soul classic and was all set to tip the UK soul sensation into the pop-star realm, once and for all, on its release in 2005. However, a series of setbacks – not least the sudden collapse of the record label involved, a week after release –