"Brotha" Remix Featuring Angie Stone, Alicia Keys and Eve Added to Stone's New Release Mahogany Soul Coming November 6th.Entertainment Editors NEW YORK--(ENTERTAINMENT WIRE)--Nov. 5, 2001 "Brotha," the powerful hit song from soul star Angie Stone, has a major bunch of sistas singing its praises. Recently, superstars Alicia Keys and Eve joined Angie Stone in the studio to rework the original, acclaimed version of "Brotha" into a sizzling siz·zle intr.v. siz·zled, siz·zling, siz·zles 1. To make the hissing sound characteristic of frying fat. 2. To seethe with anger or indignation. 3. hot remix. The smash remix, produced by Angie Stone, Alicia Keys and Kerry "Crucial" Brothers, is so explosive that it has been added last minute to Angie's upcoming album Mahogany Soul. Mahogany Soul, released on November 6th by J Records, is the follow up to Stone's platinum debut Black Diamond. Recently, the LOS ANGELES TIMES Los Angeles Times Morning daily newspaper. Established in 1881, it was purchased and incorporated in 1884 by Harrison Gray Otis (1837–1917) under The Times-Mirror Co. (the hyphen was later dropped from the name). declared, "No single album during the neo-soul movement has embraced the soul experience as fully as Angie Stone's Mahogany Soul." A remix video for the new version of "Brotha" starring Angie, Alicia and Eve is planned. However, the highly praised version of the first "Brotha" video featuring cameos from Will Smith, Luther Vandross, Sinbad, Larenz Tate, and Raphael Saadiq and highlighting past and present icons such as Malcolm X Malcolm X, 1925–65, militant black leader in the United States, also known as El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz, b. Malcolm Little in Omaha, Neb. He was introduced to the Black Muslims while serving a prison term and became a Muslim minister upon his release in 1952. , Martin Luther King, Jesse Jackson, Marvin Gaye, Muhammad Ali and Colin Powell is now highly visible on BET. Angie Stone was born in Columbia, South Carolina Columbia is the state capital and largest city of South Carolina. As of 2006, estimates for the population of the city proper is 122,819[1]. Columbia is the county seat of Richland County, but a small portion of the city extends into Lexington County. . As a gospel-trained soul singer she moved to New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of in her late teens and reinvented herself as rapper Angie B. In the mid-80s, Angie formed the first ever female rap trio Sequence, a group who far ahead of their time in the days of male-dominated hip-hop. Subsequent gigs included a spell as saxophone player and backing vocalist with Lenny Kravitz, lead vocalist with soul trio Vertical Hold, and success as a songwriter for Mary J. Blige and SWV SWV Sisters With Voices (Singing Group) SWV Sisters With Voices (R&B Group) SWV Something Weird Video (DVD supplier) SWV Square Wave Voltammetry . She also sang backing vocals for D'Angelo. Her big break came when she was signed to Arista Records as a solo artist, on which she enlisted Kravitz and D'Angelo as co-producers. Black Diamond, released in September 1999, was a classic soul record, reminiscent of both old school singers Gladys Knight and Dinah Washington. The album received rave reviews and produced major hits including "No More Rain (In This Cloud)," "Everyday," a duet with D'Angelo, and "Bone 2 Pic (Wit U)," featuring Ali Shaheed Noun 1. shaheed - Arabic term for holy martyrs; applied by Palestinians to suicide bombers Arabic, Arabic language - the Semitic language of the Arabs; spoken in a variety of dialects martyr, sufferer - one who suffers for the sake of principle Muhammad. |
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