Tamia

. Ultra Nate has amassed five #1 hits, including "Free", on the Billboard club charts, between 1994 and 2001. Notably, Tamia was also nominated for a grammy for the "You Put a Move On My Heart" single. The song peaked at #75 on the Hot 100. Nevertheless, Tamia's popularity has managed to maintain itself despite her relatively lackluster performance on American mainstream radio, so it may only be a matter of time before Tamia becomes a household name. The song enjoyed heavy airplay throughout the rest of the millennium, not only in clubs, but on rhythmic and mainstream radio stations across the country. So far, they have both performed as successfully on urban radio as any of her previous singles. Neither, however, has crossed over to mainstream radio. It here that "Free", her biggest mainstream hit in America, was released in 1997.

In 2003, Tamia also released her third album, which has spawned the singles "Officially Missing You" and "Questions". However, when Warner Brothers tried to push her in a more R&B, less house, direction, Ultra Nate left the major label and fled to the independent dance label, Strictly Rhythm. With the success of that single, and Tamia's appearance in its music video, Tamia's mainstream popuarity grew again. She found some American club success and European success there with a string of singles. Most recently, the chorus from Tamia's "So Into You" was sampled and used in Fabolous' 2003 hit, "Into You". She began her recording career on a major label, Warner Brothers. Along with Tamia, Brandy, Gladys Knight, and Chaka Khan performed the song, which peacked in the top 30 on Billboard's Hot 100 Singles chart. Ultra Nate is noted for taking the opposite path than what most musicians take.

Tamia is also known for her 1996 pop and R&B hit, "Missing You", from the Set It Off soundtrack. Though she has had club success in America, she has found the majority of her singles and, especially, album sales success in Europe. Since then, she has released three albums of her own, the most famous of which was her sophomore album, 2000's A Nu Day. It featured the smash hit "Stranger In My House,", which introduced Tamia to a new audience thanks to its immensely popular dance remix, which received far more radio airplay in America than the original, nu soul-flavored album version. She is also remembered in America for her team-up with Amber and Jocelyn Enriquez on a 1999 cover of "If You Could Read My Mind", which was also a mainstream American hit. Tamia (born as Tamia Washington on May 9, 1976 in Windsor, Ontario) is a Canadian R&B singer who first debuted in 1996 as a featured vocalist on Quincy Jones' single, "You Put A Move On My Heart.". Ultra Nate (originally from Baltimore) is a popular American house musician who is best known in her home country for her monsterous 1990s dance crossover smash, "Free", which features the memorable chorus "'cause you're free/ to do what you want to do/ you've got to live your life/ and do what you want to do". Tamia (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0848637/) at the Internet Movie Database.

The Official Tamia Site (http://www.tamiaonline.com/) hosted by Elektra Records.