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Josh Levi has been on television since he was a child and is only now getting heard properly. Eleven tracks of a singer with more range than his story suggests. From reality TV to real records Josh Levi is a Houston-born singer who first appeared publicly as a contestant on The X Factor in the United States, and then as a member of the group IM5 . That is a difficult origin to escape — child-performer credits tend to follow an artist around — and his subsequent solo work has been a sustained, largely successful argument that he should be taken seriously as an R&B singer. The evidence is in the vocals. Levi has an unusually agile falsetto and a taste for complex background stacking, and his records lean toward the atmospheric, harmonically rich end of contemporary R&B rather than chasing radio. What to listen for "DON'T THEY" in the remix with Normani is the highest-profile track here and the best showcase — two singers with similar ...