Amerie

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Amerie Mimie Rogers (born January 12, 1980) is an African-American bi-racial recording artist, actress, and writer.

Amerie, a native of Fitchburg, Massachusetts, was born in the Washington metropolitan area, and she acquired a love of classical music from her mother Mi Suk Rogers and of music from her father Charles Rogers, as well as participation in talent competitions from an early age.

Her family settled in Virginia when she began to attend Georgetown University, where she later graduated with a degree in English and Fine Arts after her high school graduation.

She began creating demos with producer Rich Harrison, who performed with such artists as Mary J. Blige, while living in Washington, D.C., and began working with him.

This culminated in a collaboration with Rise Entertainment and, in turn, major-label Columbia Records. She helped create the BET original series The Center (TV series), which she also hosted, and in its time slot, earned the most viewers ever for a show in its time slot.

Amerie's time on the series was short-lived due to her appearance in the 2004 film First Daughter, her second album on the US Billboard 200 chart, and later receiving two Grammy nominations for Best Female R&B Vocal Performance for her signature song 1 Thing (which peaked at number #8 on Billboard Hot 100) as well as Best Contemporary R&B Vocal Performance.

Amerie's third album, Why I Love It, received modest international recognition in 2007, but it was not announced in North America and she was subsequently bought out of her Sony deal by LA Reid Columbia Records.

On May 20, 2016, Amerie released an EP entitled Drive, her fourth studio album, In Love & War, on 2009.

She appeared on The Breakfast Club, 102, announcing that she will continue to publish music throughout the year.

Amerie released Because You Love To Hate Me, her first book on Bloomsbury Publishing, making it into the New York Times Best Seller list in October 2018.

Early life

Rogers was born in Fitchburg, Massachusetts, to Mi Suk's Korean mother and Charles Rogers, an African American father. The Rogers family moved to South Korea, where Amerie lived for three years, a few months after she was born. Since her father was a chief warrant officer in the United States military, the family lived in many places, including Alaska, Texas, Virginia, and Germany. Angela Rogers, her younger sister, is now her advocate, and she has a younger sibling.

Amerie has referred to her parents as traditional, loving Christians. She and her sister were forbidden from leaving the house or using the phone on school days as a child. "My dad never coerced me to do it or anything." I joined so that I could afford an education." She left ROTC after her sophomore year and graduated with a B.A. In English and a Fine Arts minor in design.

Amerie befriended a Washington, D.C. club promoter who later put her in touch with producer Rich Harrison while studying at Georgetown. Amerie said she wanted to meet Rich at a public place because she didn't know Rich. The McDonald's parking garage was chosen, Rich performed his songs, and Amerie sang along. They knew it was something special right away.

Harrison, who had just worked on Mary J. Blige's albums Mary and No More Drama, began recording and performing demos with Amerie. Columbia Records was her first recording contract. Amerie said she and Harrison threw it off right away. "For some reason we had a very specific chemistry," she wrote in a 2002 interview with Hip Online. Something amazing will happen if we work together."

Personal life

Amerie started dating her boss, Sony Music executive Lenny Nicholson, in 2004. Amerie and Nicholson were engaged on February 27, 2010, and the couple married in Anguilla on June 25, 2011. Amerie Nicholson or Amerie Rogers Nicholson is now a member of Amerie Nicholson. The couple welcomed their first child, a son, on May 15, 2018.

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Career

Amerie appeared on the chorus for Nas' 2001 hit "Rule." On the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles & Tracks chart in the United States, the single ranked at number 67. "Life," his third and final single from his album Rock City, she performed a song with Detroit rapper Royce da 5'9, titled "Life." "Why Don't We Fall in Love," her debut album in 2002, debuted on the Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs and Hot Dance Club Play charts, peaking at number 23 on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs and Hot Dance Club Play charts. The album was a top 20 hit in Australia and climbed to the top 40 in the United Kingdom.

All I Have (produced and co-written in full by Rich Harrison) was released in 2002 to mostly positive feedback. It reached the top of the US charts at number nine. According to Nielsen SoundScan, Billboard 200 sold 89,000 copies in its first week of appearance; the album has since been rated gold by the RIAA and has sold 67,000 copies by 2009. Amerie went on tour with Usher and Nas, the former's Evolution 8701 Tour, and with rapper Nelly to promote the album. "Talkin' to Me," All I Have's second and final single, although it fell outside the top 20 on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs, although it didn't make it to the Billboard Hot 100's top 40.

Amerie received the Soul Train Music Award for Best New Artist (All I Have) and Female Best R&B Soul Album (Why Don't We Fall in Love) in 2003. She was nominated for Best Female R&B Artist and an Image Award nomination for Outstanding New Artist and Outstanding New Artist in the BET Awards. Amerie lent her vocals to the LL Cool J song "Paradise," which debuted at number 14 on the Hot R&B/Hip Songs chart and became the singer's second top-ten Hot 100 entry. She appeared on DJ Kayslay's "Too Much for Me" on his 2003 album The Streetsweeper Vol. 3. 1, which debuted at number 53 on the Hot R&B/Hip Hop Songs, debuted at number 53. Amerie appeared on Bow Wow's third album, Unleashed, as the hook on "To My Mama" was played. On the Rodney Jerkins-produced track "When I Think of You," she appeared on the soundtrack to Jessica Alba's dance film Honey.

Amerie gained more fame for her debut in the 2004 film First Daughter (directed by Forest Whitaker), in which she appeared alongside Katie Holmes. Touch, her second album, debuted in 2004. The album was co-written and produced by Rich Harrison, who contributed seven new tracks to the record; Lil Jon, Bryce Wilson, Red Spyda, and Dre & Vidal contributed to the album's success. Amerie co-wrote every track but one, "Come With Me," which Harrison wrote on. "I feel like when you make a record, you have a vision in your mind and you want to carry it out, not with the studio," she said.

"1 Thing," Amerie's lead single on the album, was released in 2005. The dance-pop song, which incorporated The Meters' 1970s funk album "Oh, Calcutta!" was sampled. "This was Amerie's biggest hit to date." It debuted at number eight on the Billboard Hot 100 in the United States and dominated the Hot R&B/Hip Songs chart. The single gold was awarded by the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIAA). The song was a top-five hit in the United Kingdom, where it became one of the year's best-selling singles, and it has gained top ten and top-20 positions around Continental Europe.

Touch was released in 2005 and debuted at number five on the Billboard 200, selling 124,000 copies in its first week. The album was named gold by the RIAA and has sold 406,000 copies in the United States as of 2009. Although it was a top-20 entry in the United Kingdom, the album's title song, "Touch," was released as the second single and peaked at number 95 on the Hot R&B/Hip Songs chart in the United States. "Talkin' About," a third single, was released in America; a formal music video was planned but it was scrapped. Amerie was featured on "I Don't Care," Ricky Martin's album Life's lead single. In several European countries and Australia, the single ranked in the top 20.

In 2006, the success of "1 Thing" and Touch culminated in two Grammy Award nominations for Amerie: Best Female R&B Vocal Performance (for "1 Thing") and Best Contemporary R&B Album (for Touch). The MTV Video Music Awards, "Best Female Video and Best Choreography; and Soul Train Lady of Soul Awards; Best R&B/Soul or Rap Music Video; and Best R&B/Soul or Rap Dance Cut; Amerie was named Club Banger of the Year for her efforts at the 2005 VIBE Awards. Eve, Fabolous, and Jay-Z's "One Thing" was turned into a variety of remixes by rappers such as Eve, Fabolous, and Jay-Z. "1 Thing" came in sixth on The Root's list of Top 10 Hip-Hop/R&B Songs of the 2000s in 2009.

Amerie returned to the studio in 2006 to work on her third album, Because I Love It, with writers including The Buchanans, One Up, and Mike Caren. Rich Harrison's debut on the album was her first attempt at feature writing and production. "I love the 80s music period," she cited in her book. I did because it's because I Love It, since it was mainly R&B, soul, and the 80s new wave. People were like, 'What?!' when I told them I wanted to do that in 2006.' [...] but I adore it."

Since I Love It" (co-produced by Mike Caren and co-written by Cee-Lo Green) became a top ten hits in the United Kingdom in 2007. Because I Love It was released in 2007 in Europe, Asia, and Australasia, and it debuted in the United Kingdom, where the album's second single, "Gotta Works," debuted at number 21. The BPI has rated the album as silver. Since 2007, the imminent US release of Because I Love It made Blender magazine's list of "25 Reasons to Love '07." The official launch date was postponed several times, but "Take Control" and "Gotta Work" were given no recognition (the former ranked at number 66 on the Hot R&B/Hip Songs chart). In a late 2007, Amerie talked about her encounter with Columbia Records, saying that the label was not promoting Because I Love It adequately.

Amerie announced in 2008 that she had signed a label/production contract with the Island Def Jam Music Group, which allowed her to perform her music under her own name, Feenix Rising. Columbia Records released Playlist: The Very Best of Amerie, a compilation album from 2009; it was only in Japan that the label released it.

Amerie's fourth album, In Love & War, was described as "a blending of hip-hop, soul, and rock" with elements of 1970s rock music, as well as a "direct extension of my first album [All I Have]. "Why R U," the album's lead single, debuted on the Billboard Hot R&B/Hip Songs chart in the United States, and hit number 55 on the Billboard Hot R&B/Hip Songs chart; on the Korean pop charts, "Em All" ranked No. 81; it did, however, debut at number 81; it did, however, debut in the top ten. With no radio support—the third single, "Pretty Brown" (featuring Trey Songz), was announced just two weeks before the album was released—but distribution was hampered by distribution issues, In Love & War peaked at number 46 on the Billboard 200 and ranked third on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums.

Amerie announced in 2010 that she had changed the spelling of her stage name to Ameriie, explaining: "I work on vibes and intuition, and I believe everything is energy; the double I is right for me." Slightly different spelling, but utterly the same pronunciation." "Outside Your Body" was her first album release later this year.

Amerie was in the studio recording on her fifth studio album, titled Cymatika Vol., in 2011. 1. The album's name is based on the word cymatics, the study of visible sound and vibration. The project's crew included Riley Urick, The Buchanans, and Andre Harris (of Dre & Vidal), among others; Amerie said she could reunite with Rich Harrison for the job, but that it would be "a matter of when and in what manner." Vol. Cymatika Vol. Special guest appearances from Drunken Tiger's Tiger JK and Tasha Reid were also included on the 1st. Cymatika will investigate freedom, androgyny, and the New World Order, and was inspired by trance music, electroa, house music, and New wave music, according to Amerie. Cymatika's second and third volumes were planned.

Amerie unveiled The Prelude, a forthcoming "mini-LP" in 2012. She revealed in 2013 that she was working on a new project because I Love It Vol. II, a sequel to her 2007 album. "This album, BILI," she said, stemmed from songs that did not fit sonically or thematically to Cymatika," she said of her album. "Songs that are heavy in percussion but have a definite, soulful quality to them." They don't exist or seem to be of the moment" at any one time. Both BILI and Cymatika were scheduled for release in 2015. In 2014, IBMLI's "What I Want" (which samples "Apache) was released by the Incredible Bongo Band. She premiered the track "Mustang" in 2014 and announced a UK tour for 2015. Amerie co-produced "Out Loud," a new album by producer Rich Harrison in 2015.

Amerie appeared on the radio show The Breakfast Club, 103, a second untitled EP due later this year, and that she was still working on her album Cymatika (which was supposed to be part of a trilogy). Drive debuted on SoundCloud and gained more than 100,000 streams within the first three days of its launch. Rolling Stone selected it as one of the best R&B albums of 2016. "REDRUM" was her first single on "upcoming album MA3.

Amerie released two albums simultaneously, 4AM Mulholland and After 4AM; this was her first full-length album appearance since 2009 and her second solo (following Drive). In 2019, she appeared on the album for the first time.

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