R&B Crooner Eric Benet stopped by the Red Velvet Studio this morning to promote his new album, “The One” released last week. The 45-year-old singer is married to Prince’s ex-wife Manuela Testolini and it is no secret he has had other high profile relationships in the past (like with Oscar-winning beauty Halle Berry). Benet put much of his pain, heartbreak and fresh look on love into his music. So we consider all the things that we learned about love from Benet through his songs.
SOMETIMES MEN CRY
After his breakup with Berry, Benet didn’t go around talking smack about her in interviews or wifing up someone else six months later. He didn’t act all hard and angry about the loss, he just broke it all down musically. His third album “Hurricane” was released the year their divorce was final and it included the songs “Hurricane,” “I Wanna Be Loved” and “Man Enough to Cry,” surely hinting at the emotionally fragile state of a man who had love and then lost it. But it was his 2010 single “Sometimes I Cry” that was an honest take on a man’s emotions when he can’t get over that one woman he truly loves. Men do cry and they have emotions and yes, they too feel heartbreak. Thanks for reminding all of us of that, Eric.
FIND LOVE WITH SOMEONE WHO UNDERSTANDS
We don’t know how they met, but if anyone could understand Eric’s breakup with a celebrity rumored to have some emotional issues, it’s Prince’s ex-wife. As much as we love Prince, can you imagine being married to a guy who not only might steal your eyeliner, but who’s going to get out of your bed at 3 a.m. because he’s got a song he needs to record right now? (We love you Prince, we don’t know if that’s what happened, but c’mon, it could have.) You can imagine that Benet and Testolini must have bonded somewhat over the quirks of their more famous exes and at some point they obviously realized they had even more in common. We’re all for using the pain of the past to find a happier present and Benet and his now wife must have done just that.
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