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Amerie, (born Amerie Rogers, January 12, 1980), is the daughter of a Korean mother and an African-American father who was a career military member. 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 studied dance from an early age and performed in talent contests throughout her youth. 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. While living in Washington, D.C., she met producer Rich Harrison, who worked with such performers as Mary J. Blige, and began developing demos with him. They led to a deal with Rise Entertainment and, in turn, with Columbia Records. 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 20 of the R&B/hip-hop charts and the Top 40 of the pop charts.


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. 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.

The album's next single, "Talkin' To Me", did not hit nearly as big at urban radio, yet its video still enjoyed strong support from MTV2. 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".

Amerie returned to the music scene briefly in 20032003 is a common year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar), and also: The International Year of Freshwater The European Disability Year Summary Perhaps the defining global event of the year 2003 was the Invasion of Iraq launched by the U as a featured vocalist, first on LL Cool JJames Todd Smith (born January 14, 1968) is an American hip hop artist better known by his stage name, LL Cool J (an abbreviation of "Ladies Love Cool James"). He is best known for romantic ballads like "I Need Love" as well as hardcore rap like "I Can't's "Paradise" single and later on DJ Kay SlayDJ Kay Slay also known as the Drama King (born Kenneth Gleason) is the ringmaster of the new hip hop rivalries, played out on his mixtapes. The New York Times calls him "Hip-Hop's One-Man Ministry of Insults," and his street cred is unchallenged. Original's "Too Much For Me". Neither single performed very well, although their videos received a lot of attention from the digital music video channels. Amerie has delved into acting since, hosting the BET televison series, The Center, and showing up in the film, First DaughterFirst Daughter is a 2004 comedy/ romance movie starring Katie Holmes, and Michael Keaton, and it is directed by Forest Whitaker. The film's plot is very similar to the film Chasing Liberty (In fact Chasing Liberty's working title was First Daughter , invo, with Katie HolmesKatie Holmes (born December 18, 1978) is an American actress best known as Joey Potter on Dawson's Creek . Born Katherine Noelle Holmes in Toledo, Ohio, she was the youngest of the five children of Martin, a lawyer, and Kathleen Holmes. She attended Catho.



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