Keni Burke is the youngest of the original
Five Stairsteps and the only one still seriously involved in music.
You're the Best, a fine effort, never reached first base. RCA pushed "Let Somebody Love You" and the title track, but neglected tracks like the chugging, stop-and-go "Night Riders," pumped by spirited backing vocals, and "Gotta Find My Way Back to Your Heart," a dramatic ballad that
Burke composed with
Bill Withers. "Never Stop Loving Me," a
Burke/
Curtis Mayfield composition, has the same texture and sweetness of a
Mayfield solo, while "Paintings of Love" is pure, unbridled
Burke, sung in a soft, introspective voice that gels with the poetic lyrics. ~ Andrew Hamilton