Jay Sean's delight at sampling "Close To You" by Maxi Priest
Jay Sean is delighted that he has been given permission by Maxi Priest to sample his hit single "Close To You" for his upcoming US release "Make My Love Go"
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“I always loved that song and I just happened to be messing around with some chords and freestyled the Maxi Priest melody over them.
“Then I thought let’s just do it. Let’s bring that back to life. Because people in my era, that’s something we grew up with but the younger kids don’t know that great song.
“I just wanted to give it a bit of a current spin on it and the biggest compliment was that Maxi loved it.
“They haven’t cleared that sample for anyone else ever so it was amazing for us that he gave us permission to cover that record.”
One of my favs. I love what he did with it too. 