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| Artist : Anthony Hamilton |
| Album : Soulife (Advance) |
| Bitrate : VBR kbps |
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| Label : Atlantic Records |
| Year : 2005 |
| Genre : R&B |
| Ripper : Kournikova |
| Rip date : 2005-06-11 |
| Store date : 2005-06-28 |
| Size : 85 megs |
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+--------------------------------[Track List]--------------------------------+
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| 1. I Used To Love Someone 5:51 |
| 2. I Cry 4:26 |
| 3. Clearly 4:06 |
| 4. Georgia Parker 3:55 |
| 5. Day Dreamin' 4:23 |
| 6. Ball And Chain 3:40 |
| 7. Ol' Keeper 4:41 |
| 8. Love And War feat. Macy Gray 5:24 |
| 9. Last Night feat. Sunshine Anderson 4:12 |
| 10. Love Is So Complicated 5:04 |
| 11. Icing On The Cake 4:50 |
| 12. Exclusively 6:39 |
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| 57:11 |
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+-------------------------------[Release Notes]------------------------------+
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| We brought you his live CD last month, here is his new CD "Soulife" over |
| two weeks early. Enjoy! |
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| A soul singer who has drawn comparisons to such classic R&B vocalists as |
| Bill Withers and Bobby Womack, Anthony Hamilton struggled for the better |
| part of the 1990s as two of his albums went unreleased. Getting his |
| start at age ten singing in his church choir, the Charlotte, NC, native |
| also performed as a teenager at various nightclubs and talent shows. |
| Always with an eye to move on to bigger things, Hamilton made the move |
| to New York City in 1993, eventually signing with Uptown Records, |
| epicenter for the new jack swing sound and home to artists such as |
| Jodeci and Mary J. Blige. By 1995, Uptown was set to push Hamilton's |
| debut album, but the company went out of business, leaving the album |
| unreleased. |
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| Hamilton next signed with MCA and recorded his critically acclaimed but |
| largely overlooked 1996 album, XTC. Another transitional period followed |
| and Hamilton ultimately found himself at the Soulife label. It was at |
| Soulife, a relatively new venture run by some of the singer's old |
| Charlotte friends, that Hamilton laid down tracks for another solo album |
| and also wrote songs for such artists as Donell Jones and Sunshine |
| Anderson. In 2000, he accepted an invitation to sing backup vocals on |
| singer/organist D'Angelo's "Voodoo Tour" and traveled the world. Upon |
| returning home, Hamilton discovered that Soulife had also gone belly up. |
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| With a second album unreleased, Hamilton spent the next two years |
| selling songs and singing backup for artists including 2Pac and Eve. |
| Then, in 2002 a lead spot singing on the Nappy Roots track "Po' Folks" |
| garnered Hamilton some much-needed attention, as the song was nominated |
| for the Best Rap/Song Collaboration at the 2003 Grammy Awards. A |
| subsequent gig performing at a Grammy luncheon led to a meeting between |
| Hamilton and producer Jermaine Dupri, who quickly signed the singer to |
| his So So Def label. Technically his fourth album, Comin' from Where I'm |
| From bowed for So So Def in 2003. |
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