1999-2000: Drama
Jamelia was signed to Capitol Records at the age of fifteen after record producers were informed of her talents via her self-written a capella music she recorded on a karaoke machine. Extremely impressed, music executives offered her a record deal and she was hot footed for success. In late 1999, Jamelia debuted on the music scene with the single "So High", a collaboration with fellow R&B vocalist Rosita Lynch. The single failed to chart in both the UK and mainland Europe, and did not appear on any of Jamelia's subsequent albums. Following the poor sales of the single, Jamelia left Capitol Records, but was quickly signed up with record company Parlophone, a branch of the EMI company.
Taking some time to record her debut album, Drama, Jamelia returned the music scene in early 2000 with the single "I Do", which became her first commercially successful single in the UK and mainland Europe, making the UK top forty and holding top twenty positions in France and Sweden. The sing
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1999-2000: Drama
Jamelia was signed to Capitol Records at the age of fifteen after record producers were informed of her talents via her self-written a capella music she recorded on a karaoke machine. read more...
2003-2005: Thank You
Jamelia recorded her second studio album, Thank You, in 2002 and early 2003 following the birth of her daughter Teja in 2001. The first single lifted from Thank You was the R&B-influenced read more...
2006-2007: Walk With Me
Following the birth of her second daughter, Tiani, in 2005, Jamelia began recording her third album, Walk with Me. Its lead single, "Something About You", was released in late 2006 read more...
2007: Superstar - The Hits
Jamelia released a collection of her singles on a greatest hits album, Superstar - The Hits, in late 2007. The album features eleven of her fourteen releases, omitting the 1999 single read more...
Jamelia Niela Davis (born on 11 January 1981), known simply as Jamelia, is a Mercury Music Prize nominated English R&B singer-songwriter and occasional rapper who found fame read more...
In March 2005, It was revealed that Jamelia's half brother, Kairo Beckford, of Birmingham's notorious "Burger Bar Boys" street gang, was jailed for life for the murder of a teenager read more...