Brian McKnight is "almost done" with his aboriginal set of all-new actual in three years and predicts its aboriginal distinct could "go to radio in the abutting two weeks."

"If the borderline was today, I'd be altogether adequate putting a almanac out," McKnight tells Billboard.com. "But I didn't appetite to blitz and advance anything. I capital to let the account abound and evolve, naturally. As the borderline approaches I'm accepting added and added creative; I wrote two songs today afore I alike sat bottomward at the piano."

The as-yet-untitled album, which will be a collective adventure amid McKnight's own characterization and E1, will be his aboriginal flat back "Ten" in 2006. The singer, songwriter, artist and ambassador says that he's "taken some altered directions" this time, alignment from "five to six Brian McKnight affectionate of songs that you'd expect" -- including the planned aboriginal single, "What I've Been Waiting For" -- to one clue that has "a reggae activity that I've never done before." McKnight says he's additionally been afflicted by his sons, who are accordingly recording their own album.

"I get my songs to a assertive point and booty them to my oldest son and say, 'What would you do here?'," McKnight says. "I'm absolutely afflicted by what they're doing. Their almanac sounds like aggregate from Marvin Gaye to Metallica."

McKnight's anthology additionally appearance duets with Stevie Wonder on a song alleged "Without You" and with Jill Scott on "More Than Just a Thing."

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The anthology isn't the alone fresh adventure McKnight is alive on. Starting Sept. 26 he'll accept a account late-night allocution appearance airing during weekends on 218 (so far) CW affiliates. He says the affairs will be "not clashing what others are accomplishing but a little afterpiece to what Arsenio acclimated to do. I'm accommodating to put bodies on (that) others won't, and accept the added bodies that anybody abroad has, too."

McKnight, who has a morning radio appearance on Smooth Jazz KTWV-FM, affairs to use his Internet armpit to let admirers abide questions for his guests, and he promises that he'll acquisition "ways to be funny" after aggravating to become a actor comedian. Musically he affairs to "have everyone, beyond so abounding altered genres," including pals such as Justin Timberlake and Rascal Flatts. "It'll be like, 'Come over to my place,' except with a flat audience," McKnight says. "And, of course, at some point of the appearance I will sing."