With an Academy Award for Best Original Song hanging in the balance, Grammy Award-winning musician Raphael Saadiq has plenty to talk about-and even more to be grateful for. Source: MICHAEL TRAN / Getty "This is crazy." Despite the former Tony! Toni! Toné! frontman's claims that "It Never Rains in Southern California," on an uncharacteristically dreary morning, the clouds bearing down on Los Angeles are doing exactly that. Undeterred, he offers a mea culpa: "It doesn't rain, it like-storms here. Lucky I wore some boots though.