Jamelia

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Jamelia

Profession: Singer-songwriter
Place/Date of Birth: Smethwick, 11 January 2021

Jamelia duets with So Solid’s Asher D - 20/12/02
So Solid Crew’s Asher D solo album is due in 2003, many tracks of the tracks were penned during his incarceration at Her Majesty’s Pleasure and includes a duet with Birmingham born singer Jamelia.

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Biography

Jamelia Niela Davis was born to a Jamaican mother and Zimbabwean father and raised in Birmingham’s Winson Green.

Signed to Parlaphone aged just fifteen, Jamelia impressed record execs with a tape of self penned songs sung a-capella. Her first single, So High, was released in 1999 but it failed to chart while follow up, I Do, entered the charts but at a low position. Still just eighteen Jamelia released an album, Drama, which peaked at 39 in the charts and produced the single Money which went top five and earned the singer five MOBO nominations.

Taking time out to look after her baby daughter Teja, born in 2001, Jamelia returned to music in 2003, releasing Thank You, which stuck at number 65 in the album charts. However, despite this disappointment the accompanying single, Superstar, gave her a taste fo true pop stardom. Jamelia’s singles continued to chart well and before long she was also signed up to model for Pretty Polly and Reebok.

Three MOBO awards and three Brit nominations later Jamelia gave birth to a second daughter, Tiani, fathered by footballer Darren Byfield.

Her third album, Walk With Me, was released in 2006 and featured some quality collaborations and produced some reasonably successful singles, among them Something About You and Beware of the Dog.

Jamelia is a high profile campaigner for animal rights charity PETA and HIV/AIDS awareness campaigns with proceeds of her own fragrance donated to the cause.

September 2007