RnB and HipHop Music blog

I’ve just listened to “1 Thing” by Amerie, who is considered to be a great American R&B singer (she was Grammy nominated). She has African-American father and Korean mother, but she is extremely beautiful and amazing and has a suberb winning smile Her native language is Korean, but she speaks English quite good (her pronunciation is a little bit strange, but it makes her voice even more attractive). Her “1 Thing”, which was included as a lead single into her second studio album “Touch” (released in 2005), is a mixture of different music genres. It combines R&B, funk and go-go rythms. The song’s producer was Rich Harrison, who once heard “Oh, Calcutta!” and decided to write a song (it took 2 or 3 hours for him and Amerie to write it). This single reached number 8 in the American Billboard Hot 100 music chart and was there for twelve weeks. It was even more successful in UK, where it debuted number four on the UK Singles Chart (and was 28-th best-selling single in the United Kingdom!!!). But it’s not that important what other people think about this song, but I think that it’s great and unique

Cameo is an R&B band, which was founded long time ago (in the 70s) and consisted of 13 members, but soon lot of them moved, others - started their solo careers or were invited to other bands. But this band still exists and consists only of a few members. They released almost 20 studio albums and approximately the same number of compilation albums. The last one appeared in 2000 - “Sexy Sweet Thing” and since that time band sings only sometimes, makes tours, but its activity is mostly reduced to the activity on their official site. Their single “Word Up” (from the album of the same name) - a funk and R&B song released in 1986 - made them superstars. It had a lot of an airplay in America at that time and became Cameo’s first Top Fourty hit (later on Billboard Hot 100 it reached Number 6). On U.S. Hot Black Singles Chart “Word Up” spent three weeks on the first place. It was also successful in the UK, where it peaked Number 3 on their charts. Besides, this song had a few new versions made and sang by Melanie Brown and Korn. Both of them are cool! (real funk music!!!).