Amerie

. Gough is a self-confessed Bruce Springsteen fan.
. On January 31, 2001, he bought his own hat at a charity auction, raising £1,500 for a Kosovan children's charity. She has also been featured on the Hitch Soundtrack with her single "1 thing" in late 2004. One Plus One is One, his fourth album, was released in 2004. Amerie has delved into acting since, hosting the BET televison series, The Center, and showing up in the film, First Daughter, with Katie Holmes. He also composed the soundtrack to the movie About A Boy (starring Hugh Grant), based on the Nick Hornby book of the same name. His third album, Have You Fed The Fish?, was released in 2002.

She also earned a BET Award nomination for Favorite Female Artist. His 2000 album The Hour of Bewilderbeast won a prestigious Mercury Prize. which didn't perform as well as Paradise, although their videos received a lot of attention from the digital music video channels. In 2002, Q magazine named Badly Drawn Boy in their list of the "50 Bands To See Before You Die", although this was as part of a sub-list of "5 Bands That Could Go Either Way". 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". The first seven-inch single, EP1 was pressed about a year later to critical acclaim, although only 500 copies were made. 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. His friends Scott Abraham and Damon Hayhurst were having a joint exhibition of their art work on the night and Votel was djing as part of the bar's first year of opening.

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. The Twisted Nerve empire was later spawned after a chance meeting with Andy Votel at Generation X bar in Manchester. 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. This was then laminated and given out to friends and people at clubs in Blackburn and Manchester. 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. Before he thought of using this name he made some 'business cards', each one unique, with a printed picture of a drawing his nephew had done, and a small collage which Damon did. 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. He was born Damon Gough in Manchester, England. Gough chose his stage name from a cartoon character that appeared on a TV cartoon show called Jamie and his Magic Torch, which was on TV at a party in Trafford, Manchester in 1995.

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. October 2, 1970) is a British independent singer/songwriter. They led to a deal with Rise Entertainment and, in turn, with Columbia Records. Badly Drawn Boy (b. Blige, and began developing demos with him. 2004 - One Plus One Is One. While living in Washington, D.C., she met producer Rich Harrison, who worked with such performers as Mary J. 2002 - Have You Fed the Fish?.

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. 2002 - About a Boy. She studied dance from an early age and performed in talent contests throughout her youth. 2000 - The Hour of Bewilderbeast. 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. She is the daughter of a Korean mother and an African-American father who was a career military member.

Amerie, (born Amerie Rogers, January 12, 1980), is a North American singer. July 8, 2003 Talkin' To Me. April 21, 2003 I'm Coming Out [UK]. October 7, 2002 Why Don't We Fall In Love.

July 30, 2002 All I Have #2 R&B #9 Pop.