Wes Felton is the son of jazz pianist Hilton Felton and music is in his veins. He is a singer/ poet/ actor/emcee, and has been crowned “the future folk-soul hero” by Complex Magazine for his vocals on Prince Paul’s ‘Politics of the Business’ album. Wes Felton, or ‘Dub Ell’, as he's known in his native Washington, DC, knows that poems often make the best songs and many of them are stories about love: falling in it, getting over it, and making it work. His lyrics address the complexities of real-life love experiences, rather than the sappy, cliché-ridden variety. People take his music to heart. “I get very specific comments in terms of the individual,” Felton says of his fans reactions, which range from “you saved my marriage” to “you helped me get over a divorce.”
Having performed on the Lollapalooza tour and at the Apollo Theater as a teenager, Felton is as comfortable on stage with Mos Def, De La Soul, and Meshell Ndegeocello as he was in the smoky, candlelit cafés of his open-mic days. He quickly gained a following on Washington’s poetry circuit with his confessional lyrics, quirky pitch, and spontaneous style. He has shared the stage with his mentor and UK Soul legend, Omar. Felton has rapidly gained more musical attention for his LP ‘Postcards from the Edge’ and his underground follow up ‘A Dub Supreme’ has been discussed in high school and college classrooms across the country. In 2006, Malaco Records released Wes Felton's first nationally distributed LP ‘Outrospectives… me then, me now.’ Since then, Wes Felton has combined with fellow artist Raheem DeVaughn to form The Crossrhodes, from which ‘Limited Budget, Unlimited Qualities’ and ‘The Imitation’ were created.
