Tamia Interview: New Album "Passion Like Fire", New Single "Leave it Smokin"

With the way r&b has evolved over the years with artists putting out new music less frequently, you never quite know how long it's going to be until we get the next album from your favorite artist. For example, we've been waiting nearly a decade for the next Chico DeBarge album, over seven years for the next Jon B. album, and the list goes on an on. The legendary Tamia gave us a similar wait with the six year gap between her "Between Friends" and "Beautiful Surprise" albums, but luckily that appears to be an outlier. After releasing the great album "Love Life" in 2015, she's already gearing up for the release of her next album "Passion Like Fire" for later this year. It's led by the fresh single "Leave It Smokin" and the album is going to full of the traditional r&b goodness we've grown to love from Tamia. We had a chance to interview her once again at the listening event for the album, and got the background on it's creation, how she chose the first single, and her motivation for this album.