Artist: Tamia
Genre(s):
Other
R&B: Soul
Discography:
Between Friends
Year: 2006
Tracks: 11
More
Year: 2004
Tracks: 14
A native of Canada, urban R&B singer/songwriter Tamia got an early start in the music manufacture, telling on "You Put a Move on My Heart," the first single from Quincy Jones' 1994 strike record album Q's Jook Joint, when she was only a teen. That paved the way of life for the tone ending of her debut album in 1998.
Tamia was born and raised in Windsor, Ontario. As a child, she took playing and singing lessons, finally performing in a number of local choirs and theatrical presentations. She shortly earned a reputation and various awards, including the YTV Vocal Achievement Award in 1993. The following year, she won the Steve Ross Music Scholarship at the American Academy of Achievement's Annual Salute to Excellence in 1994. That same year, she tended to a party her managing director Brenda Richie held for Luther Vandross. At that party, she met Quincy Jones, wHO became taken with Tamia's talent. By the end of the year, she had song dynasty "You Put a Move on My Heart" for Jones' young record album, Q's Jook Joint. The sung dynasty became a Top Ten R&B hit and earned her a Grammy nominating address for Best Female R&B Vocal Performance; some other strain on the album, a duo with Babyface entitled "Dim Jams," was nominative for Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group. She as well sang "Wanting You" with Brandy, Gladys Knight, and Chaka Khan on the soundtrack for the 1995 picture show Set It Off. "Absent You" was as well nominative for a Grammy, making for a total of three nominations for Tamia in front she had even released an album.
Such exposure, summation nominations from the NAACP Image Awards and the Soul Train Music Awards, made Tamia a hot trade good in the music industry. She carefully crafted her debut album over the course of 1996 and 1997, pickings time tabu to play a small office in Fastness II: Cruise Control in 1997; she as well sang "Make Tonight Beautiful" for the soundtrack. Tamia lastly released her debut album, Tamia, in April 1998. The album boasted an impressive name of collaborators and producers, including Jermaine Dupri, Keith Crouch, Tim Kelly and Bob Robinson, Stevie J., Mario Winans, and Quincy Jones. Two years later and new signed to Elektra, Tamia released her soph effort, A Nu Day, featuring production collaborations from Missy Elliott, Dallas Austin, and Shep Crawford. The single "Alien in My House" became a surprisal Top Ten hit in 2001. More than (2004) and 'tween Friends (2006) followed.
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