Only For You
by Phyllisia Ross · 2015 · rnb · 4:35 · English, Haitian Creole
Only For You is filed under R&B rather than kompa, which is the honest classification: it is more tender than dance-driven, and the warmth rather than the rhythm is doing the connecting. Phyllisia Ross has built a career on making English, French and Creole share one emotional register, and a South Florida upbringing with Haitian roots is what lets her move between them without any of it reading as a crossover attempt. She sings and plays piano — trained from age three — and that shows in phrasing that sits behind the beat rather than on it.