Amerie

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. Century Hutchinson, London. She has also been featured on the Hitch Soundtrack with her single "1 thing" in late 2004. And a Voice to Sing With: A Memoir. Amerie has delved into acting since, hosting the BET televison series, The Center, and showing up in the film, First Daughter, with Katie Holmes. 1988.

She also earned a BET Award nomination for Favorite Female Artist. Baez, Joan. which didn't perform as well as Paradise, although their videos received a lot of attention from the digital music video channels. Toured with Bob Dylan during his 1975 Rolling Thunder Revue tour. Amerie returned to the music scene briefly in 2003 as a featured vocalist, first on LL Cool J's top 40 smash, Paradise single and later on DJ Kay Slay's "Too Much For Me". Joan Baez is not to be confused with the mathematician John Baez, her cousin. Late 2003 she won a Soul Train Award for Best R&B/Soul or Rap New Artist, she was also nominated for Album Of The Year (Female) and Single Of The Year (Female), she also performed the Top 20 hit 'Talkin' To Me" with a live band at the show. She lives in Woodside, California.

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. Her latest album is 2003's Dark Chords on a Big Guitar. The album's next single, Talkin' To Me, did not hit as big at urban radio as her first single, but it's video still enjoyed strong support from MTV2. She then worked with the Indigo Girls and Mary Chapin Carpenter and continued recording throughout the 90s. 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. She didn't have an American release until 1987's Recently on Gold Castle Records, and then switched to Virgin Records for 1992's Play Me Backwards. Throughout that spring and summer, the song received heavy urban radio play, its music video was spun in heavy rotation on the American music video stations MTV2 and BET, and Amerie was toted as the next big thing in hip-hop music. She then switched to CBS Records briefly, and then found herself without an American label for 1980's European Tour.

In the spring of 2002, Rise/Columbia released Amerie's debut single, Why Don't We Fall in Love. By the time her first album, All I Have, appeared that July, the single had reached the Top 10 of the R&B/hip-hop charts and the Top 40 of the pop charts. With 1972's Come from the Shadows, Baez switched to A&M Records and began flirting with mainstream pop music as well as writing her own songs for her best-selling 1975 release Diamonds & Rust. They led to a deal with Rise Entertainment and, in turn, with Columbia Records. Her 1971 cover of The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down (The Band) was a top 10 hit in the US. Blige, and began developing demos with him. Harris, a country music fan, turned Baez towards more complex country rock influences beginning with 1969's David's Album. While living in Washington, D.C., she met producer Rich Harrison, who worked with such performers as Mary J. In 1968, Baez married David Harris, a prominent anti-Vietnam War protester who was eventually imprisoned for draft evasion.

After her high school graduation, her family finally settled down in Virginia, while she began to attend Georgetown University, from which she later graduated with a degree in English and Fine Arts. Later in the decade, Baez experimented with poetry (1968's A Journey Through Our Time) and country music (1968's Any Day Now). She studied dance from an early age and performed in talent contests throughout her youth. Like Dylan, Baez was profoundly influenced by the British Invasion and began augmenting her acoustic guitar on 1965's Farewell Angelina just after Dylan began experimenting with folk-rock. She grew up on bases from Alaska to Germany, meanwhile gaining an appreciation of the classical arts from her mother and of R&B music from her father. From the early to mid-1960s, Baez emerged at the forefront of the American roots revival alongside contemporaries like Bob Dylan and Joni Mitchell. She is the daughter of a Korean mother and an African-American father who was a career military member. It went gold, as did 1962's Joan Baez in Concert.

Amerie, (born Amerie Rogers, January 12, 1980), is a North American singer. 2, was released in 1961. July 8, 2003 Talkin' To Me. Her second release, Joan Baez, Vol. April 21, 2003 I'm Coming Out [UK]. The album was a collection of ballads performed in a traditional style, and it sold moderately well. October 7, 2002 Why Don't We Fall In Love. Baez's professional career began at the 1959 Newport Folk Festival and recorded her debut, Joan Baez, the following year on Vanguard Records.