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Jamelia
Jamelia Niela Davis (born 11 January 1981) is a British singer, actress and television personality. Her three studio albums each peaked inside the Top 40 and they spawned eight top-10 singles. In addition, Jamelia has won four MOBO Awards, a Q Award and has received nine BRIT Award nominations. Jamelia's professional music career began in 1999, when she released her debut single, " So High", followed by a more successful single, " I Do". She then released her debut full-length studio album, ''Drama'', in June 2000. Jamelia went on to release further successful singles, including "Superstar" which charted at number three on the UK Singles Chart and number one in Australia, where it became platinum certified. She went on to release the albums '' Thank You'' (2003) and '' Walk with Me'' (2006), before leaving her label Parlophone. Jamelia appeared as a judge on '' Move Like Michael Jackson'' in 2009. Her filmography includes her own television documentaries, such as ''Jamelia: ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thank You (Jamelia Album)
''Thank You'' is the second studio album by British recording artist Jamelia, released in the UK via Parlophone on 29 September 2003. Recording sessions for ''Thank You'' took place from mid-2002 until early 2003 and features production from a variety of record producers including, Colin Emmanuel, who produced the majority of the album, Cutfather, Soulshock, Peter Biker, Matt Kent and Cameron McVey, among others. It was shortlisted for the Mercury Prize in 2004. ''Thank You'' is Jamelia's best-selling album to date, with sales of over three million copies shipped worldwide. Critical reception Allmusic editor Jon O'Brien found that the album, "unlike countless other UK R&B albums, never forgets its roots, either ..Overall, ''Thank You'' is a confident, imaginative record that oozes with personality and should be a lesson to record companies everywhere that patience can sometimes reap the biggest rewards." BBC critic Jaime Gill felt that ''Thank You'' "sees the vocalist take b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Superstar (Christine Milton Song)
"Superstar" is a song written by Mich Hansen, Joe Belmaati, and Remee and performed by Danish pop singer Christine Milton. It was released in January 2003 as the lead single from Milton's debut studio album, ''Friday'' (2004), and spent seven weeks at number one on the Danish Singles Chart. The song was later covered to international success by British singer Jamelia. Background and writing According to a HitQuarters interview with co-writer and producer Cutfather, the song was initially inspired by Liberty X's " Just a Little" (2002), "I liked that song and wanted to do something, not similar, but something in that vibe", he said."Interview With Mich 'Cutfather' Hansen" '' |
Walk With Me (Jamelia Album)
''Walk with Me'' is the third studio album by English singer-songwriter Jamelia. It was released by Parlophone Records on 25 September 2006 in the United Kingdom. Jamelia was influenced by a variety of musical genres and wanted to reflect that on the album, something she achieved by working with a variety of different producers such as Soulshock & Karlin, Stuart Crichton, Greg Kurstin, Fraser T Smith, and Jimmy Hogarth, among others. ''Walk with Me'' debuted and peaked at number 20 on the UK Albums Chart and spawned the singles " Something About You", "Beware of the Dog" and " No More". Background After the release of her second studio album (2003), Jamelia took a break from her career to give birth to her second daughter Tiani. Whilst she was pregnant she started writing new material but due to her new-found happiness she found the process frustrating: "When I first tried to write, I was five months pregnant and every song was either rubbish or insincere. I thought I needed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Drama (Jamelia Album)
''Drama'' is the debut studio album by English singer-songwriter Jamelia. It was released by Parlophone Records on 26 June 2000. The album peaked at number 39 on the UK Albums Chart and produced four singles, including the lead single " I Do", "Money", and two further singles, " Call Me" and " Boy Next Door". The album was generally met with mixed reviews. Background In 1999, Jamelia released her debut single, " So High" under Capitol Records, which she was signed to four years before the single was released. Reception of the single was mixed and it didn’t place on any charts. It wasn’t included on the album, and she left the label afterwards. Later that year, she signed a record deal with Parlophone, and released the lead single off ''Drama'', " I Do" under the label. The single was her first top 40 hit in the UK, peaking at number 36 on the UK Singles Chart. Promotional copies of the song "Thinking 'Bout You" were released near the end of the year. In 2000, the singer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
I Do (Jamelia Song)
"I Do" is the second single from British R&B singer Jamelia. It was the first single from her debut album ''Drama Drama is the specific Mode (literature), mode of fiction Mimesis, represented in performance: a Play (theatre), play, opera, mime, ballet, etc., performed in a theatre, or on Radio drama, radio or television.Elam (1980, 98). Considered as a g ...'' and was her first UK top 40 hit, peaking at number 36 on the UK Singles Chart. The Spanish Mix has Slum Village rapping on it as well as a UK rapper named Dubwise (Junior Williams). The track was originally remixed with only Dubwise rapping. Track listing # "I Do" (radio mix) # "I Do" (Raw Soul remix) # "I Do" (Capital T mix – single edit) # "I Do" (Rugged Tuff mix) # "I Do" (Spanish mix; featuring Slum Village) # "I Do" (Enhanced section – including video and photographs) Charts References 1999 songs 1999 singles Jamelia songs Songs written by Jamelia Parlophone singles Songs written by Colin Emman ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Darren Byfield
Darren Asherton Byfield (born 29 September 1976) is a former professional footballer. He is currently a first-team coach at Walsall. Byfield won six caps for Jamaica in 2003, and has scored 110 goals in 484 appearances across all domestic competitions so far in his football career. He was briefly married to the pop star Jamelia, with whom he had one child. He began his career with Aston Villa in 1997, and enjoyed loan spells with Preston North End, Northampton Town, Cambridge United, and Blackpool, before winning a move to Walsall in June 2000. He scored the winning goal in the 2001 Second Division play-off final, and then made a £50,000 move to Rotherham United in March 2002. He was traded to Sunderland in February 2004, and then moved on to Gillingham five months later. He transferred to Millwall in June 2006, before joining Bristol City in August 2007. He moved on to Doncaster Rovers in July 2008, before linking up with Oldham Athletic in August 2009, having played on loa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
British Jamaican
British Jamaicans (or Jamaican British people) are British people who were born in Jamaica or who are of Jamaican descent. The community is well into its third generation and consists of around 300,000 individuals, the second-largest Jamaican population, behind the United States, living outside of Jamaica. The Office for National Statistics estimates that in 2015, some 137,000 people born in Jamaica were resident in the UK. The number of Jamaican nationals is estimated to be significantly lower, at 49,000 in 2015. Jamaicans have been present in the UK since the start of the 20th century; however, by far the largest wave of migration occurred after the Second World War. During the 1950s, Britain's economy was suffering greatly and the nation was plagued with high labour shortages. The British government looked to its overseas colonies for help and encouraged migration in an effort to fill the many job vacancies. Jamaicans, alongside other Caribbean, African and South Asian gro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Move Like Michael Jackson
''Move Like Michael Jackson'' is a British talent show made by independent production company Fever Media and Gogglebox Entertainment and broadcast on BBC Three. It aimed to find people who can dance like the pop singer Michael Jackson. The show aired months after Jackson's death in June 2009. Presented by television personality Reggie Yates, the programme broadcast the auditions of hopefuls as they perform in front of the show's judges: Mark Summers, contemporary R&B singer Jamelia, and Jackson's elder brother and former Jackson 5 band member Jermaine. Background and production Entertainer Michael Jackson died in June 2009, in his home in Los Angeles, California. He was regarded as one of the greatest dancers of the 20th century, and popularized several dance moves, including the moonwalk and robot. Jackson adapted choreography from figures such as Michael Peters and Jeffrey Daniel Jeffrey Glen Daniel (born August 24, 1955) is an American dancer, singer-songwriter, and c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Handsworth, West Midlands
Handsworth () is an inner-city area of Birmingham in the county of the West Midlands (county), West Midlands, England. Historically in Staffordshire, Handsworth lies just outside Birmingham City Centre and near the town of Smethwick. In 2021 the ward had a population of 11,820. History The name ''Handsworth'' originates from its Anglo-Saxons, Saxon owner Hondes and the Old English language, Old English word ''weorthing'', meaning farm or estate. It was recorded in the Domesday Book, Domesday Survey of 1086, as a holding of William Fitz-Ansculf, the Lord of Dudley, although at that time it would only have been a very small village surrounded by farmland and extensive woodland. One of the oldest buildings in Handsworth is the Old Town Hall, Handsworth, Old Town Hall which dates from 1460. Historically in the county of Staffordshire, it remained a small village from the 13th century to the 18th century. Accommodation was built for factory workers, the village quickly grew, and in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Q Award
The Q Awards were the UK's annual music awards run by the music magazine '' Q''. Since they began in 1990, the Q Awards became one of Britain's biggest and best publicised music awards. Locations for the awards ceremony included Abbey Road Studios and near the end of its life, The Park Lane Ballroom. One of the more notable events of the awards was the ceremony of 2004, at which Elton John accused Madonna of cheating fans by miming on stage, after she had been nominated for a Best Live Act award. The 2001 event, was somewhat notoriously notable for Phill Jupitus stretching out the time it took to announce the "Best Producer" award, with him exclaiming "Best Producer?.... 'Would you like a cowbell in that?'", before being told off camera to get on with announcing the winner. The Q Awards included many awards recognising a lifetime of achievement, rather than achievements over the year in question. In its last few years, the 'lifetime' awards have usually outnumbered the 'current' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
CTC Kingshurst Academy
Tudor Grange Academy, Kingshurst (previously CTC Kingshurst Academy) is a coeducational secondary school and sixth form located in Kingshurst, Solihull, England. It was the only City Technology College to offer post-16 students the opportunity to study the International Baccalaureate instead of A-levels. It also offers the options of studying for GNVQs and BTECs in various subjects. History Under the name of "The City Technology College, Kingshurst", the establishment opened in 1988 as Britain's first CTC. Mrs Valerie Bragg was the Principal Emeritus. It was the first City Technology College and specialist school in England. The academy has developed a partnership in education, bringing together the world of industry, commerce and education and has very good results. From an all ability intake, 64% of Year 11 students achieved 5 or more GCSEs at grades A* to C or equivalent (including Maths and English) (2013). ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
