San Franscisco and Bay area based singer and The Monophonics frontman Kelly Finnigan is soul. His album of his own soul songs on Colemine Records is also proof that everything old can become new again.
Finnigan’s father, Mike Finnigan, played keyboards with legends like Jimi Hendrix, Joe Cocker and Bonnie Raitt and kept the house filled with music. The younger Finnigan was initially uninterested in music. But over time his resistance broke down. The soul world can be thankful for that.
Kelly Finnigan’s weightless, honest expression echoes the days when bright bluesy soul music dominated the radio. Soul music is about feeling and Finnigan’s record “Tales People Tell” from 2019 is, like the latest record A Lover Was Born from 2024, an excursion into the windings of the heart. A Lover Was Born is a testimony that these album tracks are not about nostalgia, they belong to the burning heart of longing and hope. Not retro, contemporary.
The Bay Bridged writes:
“Supreme vocals and sharp, whole body gestures of Kelly Finnigan evoke the spirit of the late and great Joe Cocker, magnetizing the performance and captivating the crowd.”
Now Kelly Finnigan is coming with her band The Atonements to jazz club Fasching and no one with a burning soul heart should miss this.
