The formula was simple: Merge bubblegum and soul with the crackling sincerity of an enthusiastic child, cross your fingers, and pray for airplay. Throw in a publicist, stylists, dance instructors, and a crack songwriting team and the next thing you know you've got a Neverlander dangling a small child out a window in Bahrain. That's provided you're a one-in-several-billion Gary, Indiana, Jackson. For our Home Schooled performers and their overly ambitious adult promoters, the path to kid soul stardom wasn't anywhere near as "simple as do-re-mi." Home Schooled: The ABCs Of Kid Soul unfolds like a map of American dreams derailed early. More energetic than funky, more passionate than soulful, whether fastidiously trained or shockingly green, these kid performers laid down nothing less than absolute honesty.
A1 | –Patrizia & Jimmy | Trust Your Child Pt. 1 |
A2 | –Promise (4) | I'm Not Ready For Love |
A3 | –Eight Minutes* | Here's Some Dances |
A4 | –Jack & The Mods | One Is Enough For One |
B1 | –Little Murray & The Mantics | Don't Leave Me Mama |
B2 | –3 Simmons | You Are My Dream (School Time) |
B3 | –3 Stars (3) | Jersey Slide Pt. 1 |
B4 | –Cindy & The Playmates | Now That School Is Though |
B5 | –Man Child Singers | Right On |
C1 | –Altyrone Deno Brown | Sweet Pea |
C2 | –Atons | Yellow Ribbon |
C3 | –Triads | If You're Looking For Love |
C4 | –Quantrells | Can't Let You Break My Heart |
D1 | –Jr. & His Soulettes* | 2009 Cherry Soul Sound |
D2 | –Michael Washington | Little Girl |
D3 | –Otis The 3rd | Time |
D4 | –Step By Step (5) | Time After Time |
D5 | –Patrizia & Jimmy | Trust Your Child Pt. 2 |