This smoky-voiced singer/songwriter, whose sophisticated jazz-pop songs and dramatic vocal delivery place him somewhere between Bryan Ferry and Morrissey, hits his peak with the driving "Everything's Coming up Roses" (not the Jule Styne song). The Mozart of modern pop music, for US audiences Black is perhaps the greatest undiscovered male vocalist ever. While his breakthrough CD "Wonderful Life" climbed to 3 in the UK charts in 1987, bungled promotion by A&M Records here in America denied it the radio play it needed to gain a following. This was truly a shame, because the sophisticated songs on the album could have easily exposed Black as the equivalent talent of Sade to millions of jazz-pop fans here in the US. As it was, this never happened and consequently Black has remained one of Europe's best kept secrets.