Daryl Hall

The Profile

Daryl Hall is an American singer, songwriter, and producer, best known as one half of Hall & Oates and for a successful solo career spanning soul, pop, and rock. His solo highlights include Sacred Songs (with Robert Fripp), Three Hearts in the Happy Ending Machine, Soul Alone, and Laughing Down Crying.

Inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (2014) as part of Hall & Oates; creator and host of the performance series Live from Daryl’s House.

A passionate deep-dive into Daryl Hall’s Sacred Songs, produced with Robert Fripp and delayed by RCA until 1980. The review frames the album within Fripp’s ‘Exposure’/Peter Gabriel 2/Sacred Songs trilogy and praises its fusion of soul-pop with experimental Frippertronics. Standout tracks and Hall’s vocals are lauded, with Fripp’s own praise cited. The album is cast as a bridge between seemingly distant genres.