Amerie
Amerie Rogers is a striking American female R&B singer, of African-American and Korean-American heritage. She is a native of Washington, DC, and many of her musical influences are from this area.
Currently, Amerie has the chart-topping single "1 Thing" spinning on airwaves and it is receiving much success from her sophomore album entitled Touch. Producer Rich Harrison sampled the distinctive and catchy main drum-and-guitar loops of the song from a 1970 version of "Oh, Calcutta!" by funk legends The Meters.
Throughout the spring and summer of 2002, the hit single, "Why Don't We Fall In Love", from her first album received heavy urban radio play. The video was spun in heavy rotation on the American music video stations MTV and BET, and Amerie was toted as the next big thing in hip-hop music. Amerie's debut album was released amid the success of "Why Don't We Fall In Love", and the media immediately began to judge her successes against those of other recent female R&B upstarts, Tweet and Ashanti.
The album's next single, "Talkin' To Me", did not hit nearly as big at urban radio, yet its video still enjoyed strong support from MTV2. VH1 Soul has been known to spin both Amerie's videos with regularity since their debuts, and MTV Jams still occasionally spins "Why Don't We Fall In Love".
Amerie returned to the music scene briefly in 2003 as a featured vocalist, first on LL Cool J's "Paradise" single and later on DJ Kay Slay's "Too Much For Me". Neither single performed very well, although their videos received a lot of attention from the digital music video channels.
Amerie graduated from Georgetown University in 2000.
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Discography
Albums
Single
- "Why Don't We Fall In Love" (feat. Ludacris) (2002) #23 US, #40 UK
- "Talkin' To Me" (2002) #51 US
- "Paradise" (LL Cool J feat. Amerie) (2002) #36 US, #18 UK (2003 release)
- "1 Thing" (2005) #8 US
External links
Categories: Hapas