Amerie
Amerie is an American female R&B singer who emerged in the spring of 2002 with the single, "Why Don't We Fall In Love". Throughout that spring and summer, the song received heavy urban radio play, its music video was spun in heavy rotation on the American music video stations MTV2 and BET, and Amerie was toted as the next big thing in hip-hop music. Amerie's debut album was released amid the success of "Why Don't We Fall In Love", and the media immediately began to judge her successes against those of other recent female R&B upstarts, Tweet and Ashanti.
The album's next single, "Talkin' To Me", did not hit nearly as big at urban radio, yet its video still enjoyed strong support from MTV2. VH1 Soul has been known to spin both Amerie's videos with regularity since their debuts, and MTV Jams still occassionally spins "Why Don't We Fall In Love".
Amerie returned to the music scene briefly in 2003 as a featured vocalist, first on LL Cool J's "Paradise" single and later on DJ Kay Slay's "Too Much For Me". Neither single performed very well, although their videos received a lot of attention from the digital music video channels; Amerie has not been heard from since.
