Chris Bruce

Love song for you, for us, for earth. Blessed Earth Day everyone, everyday we are of earth of soil water stars and one another. I’m giving thanks for the honor and privilege to live, breathe and be of such a loving oxygen and water giving planet, I want to protect and love back. here’s a new song from forthcoming album in October! Available solely at Bandcamp 🌱link in bio ✨MYCELIUM✨with @ceebrew on guitar, @officialmeshell on bass, @abester8 on drums, @leave__on on Clarinet & Saxophone, @minanina81 and little angel ensemble blessing supporting vocals, Mixed and Mastered by @kenrichnyc at @grandstreetrecording produced by yours truly Cover Photo of mycelium network by Loreto Oyarte Galvez #protectthesoil #mycelium #elements #life newsong

Happy Heavenly Birthday to my all time favorite guitarist Eddie Hazel 🙏🏾♈️☀️#originalfunkadelic #maggotbrain

Meshell Ndegeocello 3-29-2026 Pioneer Works Brooklyn, NY a most enchanting concert last night of @officialmeshell @justinhicksmusic @ceebrew @abester8 @jakeshermanwooo I have been a fan since meshell’s first album and seeing her play was a dream come true. plus I got to sit next to @morley_music in bean bag chairs. big thanks to matt and @bricer22 and @nycwjf #meshellndegeocello

JUSTIN HICKS feat. Jade Hicks & Kenita Miller ✨ CREATOR PLAN UPSTAIRS ✨ New album "Man Of Style" Produced by Meshell Ndegeocello & Chris Bruce JUSTIN HICKS puts his stamp on this Pharaoh Sanders classic by widening the vocal presence with the mesmerizing Kenita and Jade of The HawtPlates and adding a verse that creeps into the original melody and takes over. Hicks and The HawtPlates serve up “yeahs” with a certain wisdom and proffer “part of me is a man upstairs” Music and Lyrics: Pharoah Sanders, Justin Hicks Prod: Meshell Ndegeocello, Chris Bruce, Justin Hicks Vocals, Autoharp: Justin Hicks Vocals: Kenita Miller-Hicks, Jade Hicks Piano: Alexis Marcelo Acoustic Guitar: Chris Bruce Percussion: Abraham Rounds Recorded by Hector Castillo at GB’s Jukejoint Assistant Engineers: Colin Mohnacs, Mike Nelson Mixed by Ken Rich at Grand Street Recording Brooklyn, NY Mastered by Chris Connors at Concrete Sound Brooklyn, NY Artwork by Breck Omar Brunson ✨ Digital album available CDs available from 22 May 2026 on Vinyls available from 18 September 2026 European Tour - October 2026 🌱 More info soon 🎶 🔥 💓 ☀️

Today would be my paternal grandmother Millie’s 106th birthday. To this day the most evolved and expansive person I’ve ever known. She’s always been my guiding light. She was Black and German mixed. Beginning life as a mixed race child in 1920s America she gracefully persevered through experience and witness during highly charged times in this country. God Bless The Child was one of her favorite songs, and she even knew Billie Holiday who was a patron of the after hours bar Herb’s Lounge that Millie ran with my grandfather Herb in Chicago way back in the day. I always feel her with me. 🩵🙏🏾✨♓️

With the one & only @ceebrew . ♥️ Recorded by Pete Min @lucysmeatmarket 🙌🏽 in 2015 when we lived on the east side.

Man Of Style is here and I can’t wait for you to hear it! Visit Bandcamp or stream almost everywhere. Thanks to the journalists above who have been writing nice things and really giving the music a real listen. It was a pleasure to talk to you. Listen to me talk a bit about it on @wnyc with John Schaefer! Thanks to Pam Nashel @sirenscallpr for wonderful outreach and Stefany Calambert-Washington @tibootiboo for helping me get organized. Still happening. Special special thanks to my homie for life Breck Omar Brunson @breckbuilt / @breck_omar_brunson for giving great advice and landing on a wonderful visual world and killing the physical packaging. Big thanks. So many more… Basically, thank you to all the amazing folks who are helping make this “a thing”. Producers (and players) Meshell Ndegeocello @officialmeshell Chris Bruce @ceebrew Players and performers Kenita Miller-Hicks @minanina81 Jade Hicks @sense83 Daniel Mintseris @middlesintertia Marvin Sewell @marvin.sewell.guitar Alexis Marcelo @marceloalexi Jake Sherman @jakeshermanwoo Abe Rounds @abester8 Jebin Bruni Gelsey Bell @gelseybell Levon Henry @leave_on Jelani Lateef @aranhapreta Studios and wizards… GB’s Juke Joint @gbsjukejoint Hector Castillo @perroconsed Glenn Forest @gbbluey Colin Mohnacs @colin_mono_ Mike Nelson Grand Street Recording @grandstreetrecording Ken Rich @kenrichnyc Inner Ear Studio @innerearstudio TJ Lipple Concrete Sound @concrete.sound Chris Connors @concrete.sound

Rev. Jesse Jackson rest in peace 🙏🏾 Portrait by my late father Steve Clay circa 1988. The song We Got To Have Peace written by the inimitable Curtis Mayfield sung by the beautiful, generous and so alive Mavis Staples 🩵

10th anniversary of my Mom’s ascension today. This is her pregnant with me (yes she’s smoking, lol), accompanying my artist father at The Old Town Art Fair in Chicago 1966. That’s my dad’s Camaro she’s sitting next to. She loved Van Morrison’s “Into The Mystic”. When my mom and her best friend Debbie decided to drive across the country from Chicago to LA she told me that was their song. I miss her so so much, but I am blessed to feel her with me in my heart and soul always. 🩵🌸🙏🏾

LISTEN TO THE NEW SINGLE of JUSTIN HICKS 💖 « Oh! » Available on Bandcamp & Qobuz ✨ On 22 MAY 2026, JUSTIN HICKS will release his new album in Europe entitled « Man Of Style ». Album Produced by Meshell Ndegeocello and Chris Bruce Be ready for this one 🌱 Stay tuned about shows in Europe 🤩 ✨ I think this is the oldest song on the album. I wrote it over 20 years ago on a broken guitar while watching Kenita sleep. It was definitely a moment. I think the song has traveled with me for so long and has been played so many ways, it’s nice to make this a duet and open the scope of its meaning. It is a bit of a hook-up song, but at the core speaks to the pleasure and pain of deep love and how that affects the way we make choices. This track features Kenita and I in a sultry unison vocal. I think her voice has a depth-meets-coloratura sound reminiscent of Stephanie Mills. Jake Sherman’s Fender Rhodes is reflexive and sweet. It all amounts to an anti-ballad momentum with lyrics that want to be sung into the ear of your lover. “I’m so tired but I gotta go faster”. » - JUSTIN HICKS ✨ Music and Lyrics: Justin Hicks Prod: Meshell Ndegeocello, Chris Bruce Vocals, Synth: Justin Hicks Vocals: Kenita Miller-Hicks Piano: Daniel Mintseris Rhodes: Jake Sherman Bass, Bell Synth: Meshell Ndegeocello ✨ Oh Can we talk it out, over Cuz you know my heart beats faster Oh my god I’m stuck in the wrapper Gotta keep blood pumpin’ So the time keeps freeing us and then I’ll Oh Oh my god Can’t get to you yet, my hat’s on backward Oh my god i’m stuck in the wrapper You know I like it like that... Oh oh my god I appreciate the struggle with a grin Oh Oh my god Holy mole’ and you’re slick like satin Maybe I can sink Manhattan Oh Oh my god I’m so tired but I gotta go faster Maybe I can get you to go backward You know I like it like that... Oh oh my god I appreciate the struggle with a grin Oh my god I’m so in love ✨ @kenrichnyc - mix @breck_omar_brunson - artwork @malickwelli - pix Justin 🙏🏽 #music #love #life #vocals #bass #piano #rhodes

Heading out on tour this week! Looking forward to being together. Where will we see you?