Amerie

. 2003 brought Basement Jaxx's third full length album, Kish Kash, which included contributions from Lisa Kekaula (of the Bellrays), Me'shell Ndegeocello, Dizzee Rascal, Cotlyn Jackson, J C Chasez, Siouxsie Sioux, and Phoebe.
. "Where's Your Head At?", which relies on a sample of Gary Numan's "M.E." for its hook, became a huge international hit in 2002 (see 2002 in music) and is perhaps Basement Jaxx's best known song. She has also been featured on the Hitch Soundtrack with her single "1 thing" in late 2004. The music video for album opener "Romeo" is a parody of a bollywood movie. Amerie has delved into acting since, hosting the BET televison series, The Center, and showing up in the film, First Daughter, with Katie Holmes. Their next full length album, 2001's Rooty included singles "Romeo", "Jus 1 Kiss", "Where's Your Head At?", and "Get Me Off".

She also earned a BET Award nomination for Favorite Female Artist. Basement Jaxx also released Jaxx Unreleased, a compilation of b-sides, remixes, and other assorted material, in 1999. which didn't perform as well as Paradise, although their videos received a lot of attention from the digital music video channels. "Red Alert" was used in a Coca-Cola commercial. Amerie returned to the music scene briefly in 2003 as a featured vocalist, first on LL Cool J's top 40 smash, Paradise single and later on DJ Kay Slay's "Too Much For Me". Remedy includes the "Red Alert", "Rendez Vu", "Jump N' Shout", and "Bingo Bango" singles. Late 2003 she won a Soul Train Award for Best R&B/Soul or Rap New Artist, she was also nominated for Album Of The Year (Female) and Single Of The Year (Female), she also performed the Top 20 hit 'Talkin' To Me" with a live band at the show. In 1999, Basement Jaxx released their first full length album, Remedy, to wide acclaim.

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. It includes early Basement Jaxx hits including "Samba Magic" and the anthemic "Flylife". The album's next single, Talkin' To Me, did not hit as big at urban radio as her first single, but it's video still enjoyed strong support from MTV2. 1997's Atlantic Jaxx Recordings is a compilation of select releases on their Atlanic Jaxx label from 1994 to 1997. 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. Basement Jaxx started in Brixton, south London in 1994. 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. Basement Jaxx are a critically acclaimed UK house music duo comprised of Felix Buxton and Simon Ratcliffe that rose to popularity in the late 1990s.

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 10 of the R&B/hip-hop charts and the Top 40 of the pop charts. J C Chasez. They led to a deal with Rise Entertainment and, in turn, with Columbia Records. "Plug it in" (2004) ft. Blige, and began developing demos with him. Lisa Kekaula. While living in Washington, D.C., she met producer Rich Harrison, who worked with such performers as Mary J. "Good Luck" (2003) ft.

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. Dizzee Rascal. She studied dance from an early age and performed in talent contests throughout her youth. "Lucky Star" (2003) ft. 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. "Get Me Off" (2002). She is the daughter of a Korean mother and an African-American father who was a career military member. "Where's Your Head At?" (2001).