Raphael Saadiq and Roy Tyler at the Fillmore

While performing at The Fillmore in San Francisco, Raphael Saadiq, multi-instrumentalist and former lead singer of the RnB group Tony! Toni! Tone!, pays public homage to a musical influence that I’ll bet many of his fans were unaware: Bay Area gospel quartet singing.

To prove it, Saadiq brings on stage one of his favorites of the genre, Oakland’s Roy Tyler, former member of the Gospel Humming Birds. Together, Tyler and Saadiq burst into a quartet driver that has the audience clapping along. Watch it here.

This isn’t the first time Saadiq and Tyler have worked together. Saadiq provided guest vocals on “Tired of the Game,” a track on Three Way Calling (Severn, 2004), Tyler’s CD with the group New Directions. The album is available on iTunes.