Amerie

. She also performed with roots rock reggae musician and singer Burning Spear.
. Badu dropped her "slave name" "Erica Wright" in favor of "Badu", which she reports as Arabic for "to manifest truth.". She has also been featured on the Hitch Soundtrack with her single "1 thing" in late 2004. Some music journalists have labeled her Nu soul, nouvelle-soul or neosoul, often comparing her to Billie Holiday in lyrical delivery and grouping her with Maxwell and D'Angelo in musical genre. Amerie has delved into acting since, hosting the BET televison series, The Center, and showing up in the film, First Daughter, with Katie Holmes. She weaves unusual musical influences together creating a rich texture of sound.

She also earned a BET Award nomination for Favorite Female Artist. She is probably best known for "You Got Me," her collaboration with The Roots, as well as her own songs "Tyrone", "Next Lifetime", "On & On", and "Clevah." Her lyrics are highly personal urban philosophy which throw emotional challenges in the face of the listener. which didn't perform as well as Paradise, although their videos received a lot of attention from the digital music video channels. Erica Wright of Dallas, Texas (born February 26, 1971), better known as Erykah Badu, is an African-American R&B / hip hop artist whose work crosses over into jazz. 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". Erykah Badu News (http://bandnews.org/band/Erykah%20Badu). 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. Official Site (http://www.erykahbadu.com/).

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. Plenty on Guru's Streetsoul album. 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. Worldwide Underground (2003). 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. Mama's Gun (2000). 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. Baduizm Live (1997).

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. Baduizm (1997). They led to a deal with Rise Entertainment and, in turn, with Columbia Records. Blige, and began developing demos with him. While living in Washington, D.C., she met producer Rich Harrison, who worked with such performers as Mary J.

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. She studied dance from an early age and performed in talent contests throughout her youth. 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.