Simply Red - Angel (Official Video) - Aretha Franklin Cover ft. The Fugees

Official video for the lead single of Simply Red’s Greatest Hits album, 1996. This version of Angel was recorded in collaboration with The Fugees and the video was shot in New York City. The Fugees was an American hip hop group who rose to fame in the mid-1990s. Their repertoire included elements of hip hop, soul and Caribbean music, particularly reggae. The members of the group were rapper/singer/producer Wyclef Jean, rapper/singer/producer Lauryn Hill, and rapper/producer Pras Michel. Deriving their name from a shortening of the word “refugees“. The original version is a soul ballad recorded by American singer Aretha Franklin, co-produced with Quincy Jones and it originally appeared on Aretha’s 1973 album Hey Now Hey (The Other Side of the Sky). For the latest tour dates and new music from Simply Red go to Follow Simply Red: Subscribe now to the Official Simply Red YouTube Channel, where you’ll find music videos for classics such as Holding Back The Years, Come To My Aid and Sunrise, as well as ground-breaking Live Performances and interviews with Mick Hucknall, new and old. Simply Red have over a billion hits on YouTube, have sold over 60 million albums worldwide, 5 going to number one in the UK. Their 1991 classic Stars was the best-selling album for two years running in Britain and Europe. They have had two US Billboard chart toppers with classic singles Holding Back The Years and If You Don’t Know Me By Now. Every Simply Red studio album has been a UK top ten (with previous release Big Love reaching number 4 in 2015). Hucknall has been the songwriter and bandleader since the beginning in 1985. #SimplyRed