Artist: Amel Larrieux: mp3 download Genre(s): R&B: Soul Rock Discography: Lovely Standards Year: 2007 Tracks: 10 Morning Year: 2006 Tracks: 10 Bravebird Year: 2004 Tracks: 12 Infinite Possibilities Year: 1999 Tracks: 10 R&B singer-songwriter Amel Larrieux grew up in New York's Greenwich Village; her mother, Brenda Dixon Gottschild, was a dance critic and professor, and she was raised in an artistic environment. She formed Groove Theory, a pair with quondam Mantronix appendage Bryce Wilson (AKA Bryce Luvah), which signed to Epic Records and scored a gold-selling Top Ten pop and R&B gain in October 1995 with "Say Me," followed by the Channel Theory record album, which score the Top 20 of the R&B charts. In 1996, Larrieux was a vocalist on the self-titled record album by Sweetback, an instrumental group made up of other members of Sade's substitute band, which reached the charts. Larrieux released her debut solo undivided, "Aim Up," in November 1999, and it reached the R&B charts. Her debut solo album, Infinite Possibilities, was released by Epic/550 Music in February 2000. Larrieux teamed with balladeer Glenn Lewis and recorded "What's Come Over Me?" for the Barbershop soundtrack, released in 2002. The 2 reunited a class by and by and appeared on Stanley Clarke's 1, 2, to the Bass record album with their version of "Where Is the Love," a performance that earned them a Grammy nominating speech. In 2004, she affected to the Blisslife judge for Bravebird, followed in 2006 by Morning. |