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ARTiST.....: Billy Lawrence
ALBUM......: One Might Say
LABEL......: EastWest Records America
GENRE......: R&B
SOURCE.....: CDDA
TRACKS.....: 13
PLAYTiME...: 58:02
SiZE.......: 74,10 MB
ENCODER....: Lame 3.97 V2
BiTRATE....: VBRkbps
SCENE DATE.: 07/23/2007
STORE DATE.: 00/00/1994
Tracklist:
01. One Might Say 04:28
02. Feelings Carry On 04:42
03. Happiness 04:45
04. Truly 04:35
05. Boyfriend 05:05
06. Favorite One 04:23
07. My Heart My Angel 04:33
08. Prelude 00:35
09. Your Good Luv 04:12
10. Distant Love 05:22
11. Good Times & Bad 04:56
12. Forgive Me Baby 06:23
13. I'm In A Daze 04:03
Release Notes:
Billy Lawrence (born 1971, in St. Louis, Missouri) is a
trans-raced female R&B/soul singer-songwriter, record producer
and arranger. She has had a career that has spread through 15
years. Though not as well known as other musicians; she has
impacted many other artists. She's worked with everyone from
Jennifer Lopez, Mandy Moore, Mary J. Blige, TLC, Aaliyah,
Blaque, and Mase just to name a few.
In 1992, Billy made her start in the music industry as a
background singer for Jamacian singer Jimmy Cliff. Not long
after she was signed to EastWest Records when she recorded her
debut "One Might Say" in 1994, in which she wrote, produced,
and arranged along with her brother Kyra Lawrence. The album
spawned two big hit singles and music videos for "Happiness"
and "Boyfriend".
After the success of her debut album, Billy became the "IT"
girl that most producers and artists wanted to write or be
featured on their songs. She has written or sang background on
tracks from Mary J. Blige, Shades, En Vogue, Ray J, DeeDee
O'Neil, Shanice, Chubb Rock, and Nas. Billy would find even
more successful being behind the scenes then she would as a
solo artist.
In 1997, Billy Lawrence had the first single and music video
from the platinum soundtrack to the film "Set It Off" with the
song that would become her biggest hit to date "Come On" that
featured female rapper MC Lyte. Elektra Entertainment released
her second album "Paradise" right on the heals as record
company was at their peak with the releases of Missy Elliott,
Alana Davis, Gina Thompson, and Busta Rhymes. Billy also had a
big hit being featured on fellow label-mate Rampage's (from
the Flipmode Squad) debut single "Take It to the Streets".
Soon after back to back hits on the radio and on the charts
she would go on to tour with Busta Rhymes, Rampage and the
Flipmode Squad. And latter made a cameo on Rampage's video for
his second single "We Getz Down" with 702. She also released a
non-album track as a maxi-single called "Up & Down" which
sampled the disco song "The Glow of Love" by Change featuring
Luther Vandross as a second single.
After the success of the second album, Billy was featured on
the debut album of rapper Mase, "Harlem World" which had
multi-platinum success. She along with her brother Kyra
Lawrence wrote and sang background on Jennifer Lopez's debut
album "On The Six". She also wrote and sang background for
Mariah Carey's group that she formed, Allure. Charli Baltimore
recruited Billy to be on her debut album "Cold as Ice" on the
song called "Pull the Alarm", but the album was never
released, but circulated on the internet quickly.
Billy Lawrence also was at the helm of the album from Lisa
"Left Eye" Lopez's group that she had formed; Blaque. Billy
wrote and sung background on 3 of the albumÆs songs; "Leny",
"Bring It All to Me", "Release Me". "Bring It All to Me"
featured NSync singer JC Chasez and became Blaque's biggest
hit to date. The chorus was sung completely by Billy Lawrence
herself although on the album's inner notes, she never
received any credit for it. In 1999, international pop singer
Hinda Hicks covered Billy Lawrence's "Truly" that was on her
debut album "One Might Say", and released it as a single from
her album "Hinda".
In 1999, Billy Lawrence worked with R&B super-group TLC on
their junior studio album "Fanmail" along side of Dallas
Austin. She had written 4 songs for TLC out of 40 that were
actually recorded by TLC during the album making phase. None
of Billy's songs made the final cut of the album, but still
may be used in any future TLC compilations. Billy was also
recording for her junior album "Too Many Times" for Elektra
Entertainment during this time, and on this album she was
going to redeem all the favors from some of the artists she
had worked closely with. "Too Many Timesö featured producers
Poke & Tone, Trackmasters, Darrell "Delite: Allamby, Dallas
Austin, SoulShock and Organized Noise. In addition Billy wrote
or co-wrote 8 out of the 11 songs. She also produced or
co-produced 5 songs. The first single was going to be the
title track which featured TLC. A remix of the title track was
also recorded with Left Eye & Busta Rhymes. She had also
remade Anita Baker's "Fairy Tales". The album was set for a
November release date, but was pushed back until eventually
Elektra Entertainment was bought out by new owners WMG and was
shelved inevitably.
After leaving the label, she latter signed with Epic Records,
in which she wrote and sung background on two songs for label
mate, Mandy Moore on her debut. Mandy was a fan of BillyÆs
before they had worked together. Her debut single ôCandyö had
Billy on background vocals. The domain for billylawrence.com
was purchased by Epic Records for 3 years and underconstruction
without any news or releases from her (the domain is now owned by
not opened by Manila Industries, Inc.)
In 2002, she joined Jennifer Lopez on her junior studio album
"This Is Me... Then" on two songs which she wrote and sung
background on. Billy also was featured on two songs by Orlando
rap group Smilez & Southstar. "Tell Me" was the group's
biggest hit to date.
As of 2005, not much has been heard of her besides a song
called "Oh Boy" feauturing up and coming rapper TJ Hooker that
has been featured on a few mixtapes. It's been said that she
has started a family and gives vocal training to students on
the side.