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      The group’s sound, melding the famed R&B/gospel poeticism of Patti LaBelle, rock antics of Nona Hendryx, and the soul sensibilities of Sarah Dash, is just as we left it 30 years ago, but reignited and retrofitted for the now.

      The dynamic vocalists’ powerful songs and harmonies mirror the energized multi-genre sound they brought to music three decades ago, but similarly, their lyrics echo the past and are quite relevant today.

      “The music that we did then was political, and now – it wasn’t intentional – but we have four songs that are very political,” group member Patti LaBelle described. “We’re almost at the place we were years ago. When you hear some of the song, you’ll thing that we wrote them purposely to go along with what is happening now. So it’s back and it’s now. It’s very timely.”

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      The timeliness and timelessness of the group is particularly evident in the new disc. It features production by legendary music maker team Gamble & Huff and by contemporary greats Wyclef Jean and Lenny Kravitz. Though the disc marks the return of the pulsating trio, it is not actually a comeback, the ladies explained.

      “In way, there was a sense of unfinished business with our fans,” Hendryx said of their parting.

      “We left without saying goodbye,” LaBelle said.

      The three swear they’ve always been lifelong friends, so why the breakup in the first place?

      “We all had different music that we wanted to sing as Labelle,” LaBelle continued. “I liked ballads and maybe gospel, Nona liked rock-n-roll, Sarah liked doing other music. The three of us would go on stage some nights and look at each other and say, ‘You know we need to split up, do our own thing and then come back together years from now and do our thing again.’ We were always friends. We couldn’t sing together anymore.”

      “It was 17 years before we split up,” Sarah Dash boasted. “That’s longer than most groups are together in general. We’ve been together a long time. A lot of times you look back in hindsight and you see that it was the best thing that happened to us; that we were able to go our separate ways and discover things about ourselves and have that independence.”

      She explained given the chance to follow their individual aspirations made their reunion album more expansive.

      “It made us that much stronger of what we could bring to this record,” she said. “It’s always stronger to have that much more information that you’re bringing to something. If we’d gone on together, I think we would have become a parody of ourselves.”

      To save their relationship, they had to part. Thirty years later, separation and time is apparently a recipe for hits. Which brings up the next question, why the reunion?

      “We had to get Patti out of the hot seat for announcing our reunion many times for quite a few years,” Nona Hendryx joked. “Fans would e-mail and say, ‘We saw Patti last night and she said you were going to get back together and going to do a tour.’”

      “I knew eventually it would happen.” LaBelle added. “I didn’t know that it would take four years. So now the fans can see that I didn’t lie. It just took a little more time than they thought.”

       The singers said that once the timing was right, they had to confirm that the sound was still right, too. So without a label even involved, they rejoined forces and had a few songfests, and the rest is new history.

       “Once we got together and found that we sounded decent,” LaBelle said, “a few companies were interested. Everything just fell into place.”

      For more on LaBelle and their triumphant return, check out www.labelleisback.com.

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