21 (Adele album) music inflections. Instruments such as the saxophone, harp, banjo and the accordion contributed to its exploration of blues and soul. The singer drew from the music of Mary J. Blige, Kanye West, Elbow, Mos Def, Alanis Morissette, Tom Waits, and Sinéad O'Connor in the cultivation of the album's sound, and credited Yvonne Fair, Andrew Bird, Neko Case, and The Steel Drivers with its musical direction. Adele's style on "21" is generally characterised by critics as soul, although some suggest that the album eschews any distinct stylistic epithet. John Murphy of musicOMH characterises the album as British soul. Jon Caramanica of
Heather Williams (singer) Heather Williams (singer) Heather Lynn Williams (born February 3, 1976 "née", Holder,) is an American Christian Contemporary-Rock-Soul-Worship singer-songwriter born and raised in Dearborn, Michigan. In 2011 Williams released the album entitled "This Time Around", her first full-length studio album that was with the record label Fair Trade Services. Williams was raised in a poor, abusive home by her step-father and birth mother until she was 11, when her mother gave her away. After that, Williams went to live with her grandfather, but later on came to live with her aunt and uncle, who became her adopted parents. Because of her