''In My Songs'' is the ninth studio album and the first posthumous album by American singer

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. Levert reteamed with longtime collaborator Edwin "Tony" Nicholas to work on the entire album which was completed shortly before his death from an apparent accidental overdose in November 2006. ''In My Songs'' debuted and peaked at number two on the US ''Billboard'' 200, becoming his highest-charting effort, and won Levert his first

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for the title track at the 50th awards ceremony.

Track listing

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Personnel

- lead vocals (tracks 1, 3, 7, 10–11), background vocals (1, 3, 7, 10–11), keyboards (10) *Daris Atkins - additional guitar (track 7) *Ronald Bookman - recording engineer (track 2) *Randy Bowland - guitar (track 8) *Tony Detwiley - guitar (track 1) * Joe Little III - background vocals (track 10) *Glen Marchese - audio mixing (tracks 3, 5, 7, 9) *

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- audio mixing (track 10) *Marq Moody - recording engineer (track 12, assistant on track 2) *Edwin "Tony" Nicholas - keyboards (tracks 1–8, 11–12), drum machine (1-6, 8, 10–12), bass guitar (1-2, 12), guitar (5), string arrangement (7-8) *Russell Thompson - saxophone (track 1) *Pete Tokar - recording engineer (tracks 1, 3–11, overdubs on tracks 2, 12), audio mixing (1-2, 4, 6, 8, 12), organ played by (1) *Dennis Williams - string arrangement (track 8) *Raymond Williams - guitar (tracks 2, 4, 6, 11) *Raymond Wise - string arrangement (track 7) *Sherena Wynn - background vocals (track 1) *Kenny Zahorcak - trumpet (track 1), flugelhorn (1) *Monica Culpepper - Drum Programming (track 1)

Charts

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

References

{{Authority control 2007 albums Gerald Levert albums Albums published posthumously