I liked the name Saadiq and didn't want to be known as an artist as Raphael Wiggins.

Touring with a nine piece band Saadiq hit the 2009 summer music festival circuit with performances at Bonnaroo Hollywood Bowl Outside Lands Pori Jazz Stockholm Jazz Festival North Sea Jazz Essence Music Festival Summer Spirit Festival and Nice Jazz Festival Bumbershoot Music Festival and Austin City Limits. "
He has been playing the bass guitar since the age of six and first began singing at age nine in a local gospel group. In 2011 he and his band performed as the ESPY's house band for the night where he performed his latest compositions.

Music critic Robert Christgau has called Saadiq the "preeminent R&B artist of the '90s". : /səˈdiːk/) (born Charles Ray Wiggins; May 14 1966) is an American singer songwriter musician guitarist and record producer. Raphael Saadiq (pron.