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WE ARE JUST HUMAN

Kenny Peagler has spent three decades at the piano — on stages from Carnegie Hall to festival circuits worldwide, and performing for President Barack Obama at the NAACP Bicentennial Celebration. We Are Just Human pushes his voice and his songwriting to the front for the first time.

It's a vocal record built on an unusually deep bench of Grammy winners. Drummer and producer Poogie Bell anchors a band that rotates through five of the most recorded bassists in modern music — Marcus Miller, Victor Wooten, Will Lee, Bakithi Kumalo, and Jimmy Haslip — alongside saxophonist Lakecia Benjamin, percussionist Horacio "El Negro" Hernandez, and the late guitarist Dean Brown, whose playing is among the last he committed to record.

Across nine songs, Peagler moves between quiet, plainspoken writing and full-band grooves with real weight behind them. The title isn't incidental: under the résumé and the guest list, the album keeps circling back to the ordinary business of being a person.

Out now. Stream We Are Just Human on Apple Music, Spotify, or wherever you get your music.

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    SoulTracks Gives "I Believe" a Glowing First Listen

    Veteran soul critic Chris Rizik called the lead single "a tasty slice of country-influenced midtempo R&B" and praised Peagler as "a direct, earnest vocalist... possessing a classic soul tone that sounds just right."

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    Apr 24, 2026

    Music Connection Gives We Are Just Human an 8/10

    Veteran critic Brett Callwood highlighted We Are Just Human’s commitment to live performance and emotional depth, noting “a sweetness about Peagler’s music that is as reminiscent of Randy Newman and Neil Diamond as it is any soul and country…

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