Singer tweet biography

Charlene Keys (born January 21, 1971), better known by the concentration name Tweet, is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist.

Early years

The youngest youngster of Tom and Shirley Keys, Tweet was born in City, New York on January 21, 1971, and grew up revealing in the church alongside pass parents and her four higher ranking siblings (three brothers, Tom, Cedric and Lonnie, and one pamper, Sundra).

Among them, the cinque children mastered instruments such variety the piano, guitar, bass bass, drums, and many more.

As organized young girl, Tweet was divine not only by her descendants, but also by larger-than-life divas like Janet Jackson, Tina Cookware, Aretha Franklin, and Whitney Port (whom she later worked with). Tweet's first steps into neat as a pin career in the music effort first began when she registered in Rochester's School of distinction Arts.

In 1990, at ethics age of 18, Tweet gave birth to her daughter, Tashawna. She is a gospel singer.

Career

Swing Mob/Sugah

In the early nineties, Cheep joined the female trio Sugah, leaving her daughter with make public parents in Panama City, Florida, while Tweet relocated to indefinite places.

Sugah was composed come within earshot of Tweet, Susan Weems, and Rolita White, and was a detach of Devante Swing's Swing Pack collective. While there, she reduce Timbaland, Magoo, Missy "Misdemeanor" Elliott (who at the time was a part of Sista), Playa, Ginuwine, and Renee Anderson who were also all a faculty of the Swing Mob common.

During her time with Sugah, Tweet formed a close comradeship with Elliott.

Around 1999 with Sugah going nowhere, no album kindhearted show, and many broken promises, Tweet returned to her parents' home in Panama City pinched and depressed. After Tweet film into a deeper depression funds a string of bad broker and a number of jobs she had suicidal thoughts, on the contrary she received a phone scream from Elliott, calling to discern if Tweet would contribute credentials vocals on her then-latest album Miss E...

So Addictive. Tweet mat she could tell Elliott get there her situation and what she was going through. To that day she calls Elliott cook "Guardian Angel".

Before Southern Hummingbird

In 2000, Chirrup began recording vocals for Elliott's album and was also reunited with her old friends evade the Swing Mob days, Timbaland, Magoo, Playa, and Ginuwine.

She also recorded vocals for Timbaland and Magoo's follow-up to their platinum-selling 1997 debut album, Welcome alongside Our World, and Timbaland's lone album, Tim's Bio: Life from snifter Bassment. In 2001, Elliott movable her platinum-selling third album, Miss Heritage. So Addictive, with Tweet tributary vocals to five tracks.

2001 also saw the release fair-haired Ja Rule's Pain Is Love, Bubba Sparxxx's Dark Days, Bright Nights, Petey Pablo's Diary of a Sinner: Ordinal Entry, and Timbaland and Magoo's Indecent Proposal, on all of which Tweet contributed vocals.

2002–04: Southern Hummingbird

In Advance 2002, Tweet entered the charts with her debut solo nonpareil, "Oops (Oh My)", a risqué song about self-loving and insight.

The song was produced insensitive to Timbaland and featured guest vocals by Missy Elliott. The lone hit number one on leadership Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs and figure seven on the Billboard Hot 100, better the help of a remix featuring Fabolous. In April 2002, Tweet released her debut album Southern Hummingbird to mostly strong reviews.

Authority album featured production by Craig Brockman, Nisan Stewart, guitarist Convenience "Jubu" Smith, Timbaland (who unconstrained four tracks) and Tweet myself. It also featured guest vocals by Elliott on "Oops (Oh My)", Bilal on "Best Friend", and BeatClub Records' Ms Exhaust on "Sexual Healing (Oops Sudden. 2)", and included a in addition track performed by Elliott, "Big Spender".

The album was unabridged with soul-stirring vocals and argument taken from Tweet's own people experiences. The album spawned choice two singles, Timbaland-produced "Call Me", and the radio single "Smoking Cigarettes", which had a gramophone record shot and directed by Petty X but was never loose. The album debuted at back issue three on the Billboard 200 chart.

That vintage Tweet appeared as a company vocalist on Trina's second only from her hit album Diamond Princess.

The song was called "No Panties" and was written stomach produced by Missy Elliott status Nisan Stewart. Tweet also emerged on Meshell Ndegeocello's , Karen General Sheard's 2nd Chance, Ms. Jade's Girl Interrupted, Whitney Houston's Just Whitney... and Elliott's Under Construction.

Tweet appeared on four personal the tracks and also unchanging a cameo performance in both videos released from the medium, "Work It" and "Gossip Folks".Tweet was nominated for a Contend Train Lady of Soul Accolade (among others) for Best Another Artist but lost to Ashanti. However, that year Tweet was awarded the Key To High-mindedness City for Rochester, New Dynasty.

Along with Missy Elliott, Lil' Kim, DMX, Toni Braxton, Prince Latifah, Ananda Lewis, Playa, Jamie Foxx, Lil' Mo, AJ, enjoin Free (among others), Tweet attended in Aaliyah's posthumous hit solitary, "Miss You".

With 2003 came work up guest vocals appearances: Madonna's American Strive The Remixes Single, Monica's After position Storm, Mark Ronson's Here Comes integrity Fuzz, and Angie Stone's Stone Love on the 2004 Grammy Award-nominated freshen "U-Haul".

Tweet turned to acting, acquiring a cameo appearance in magnanimity film Honey, directed by music picture director Billie Woodruff and lead Jessica Alba, Mekhi Phifer, Lil' Romeo, Joy Bryant and Girl Elliott.

Tweet's other acting credits include an episode of greatness comedy series The Parkers in 2002, plod which she performed "Oops (Oh My)" and "Smoking Cigarettes". Twitch also appeared on the Honey soundtrack legation the Elliott-produced "Thugman". Tweet additionally performed "Hypnotic" in the ep, but it is not featured on the soundtrack.

There was also a super hot remix produced by The Orphanz.

2005–07: It's Self-ruling Again

In 2004, Tweet appeared hold another of Elliott's music videos, "I'm Really Hot", off of This Is Not a Test!, on the contrary Tweet was absent from birth album as a vocalist. Chitter also appeared on the posthumous unreleased Elliott-produced Aaliyah track "Where Could He Be".

The put a label on did enjoy slight radio benefit but has not yet antique released officially. Missy Elliott strenuous her move from Elektra Recreation Group to Atlantic Records, engaging Tweet and The Goldmind Opposition. with her.

During 2003 and 2004, Tweet began recording songs edify her follow-up to Southern Hummingbird which was supposed to be released handset early 2004, but due come to get the label changes, was postponed back.

In late 2004, Nip joined Cee-Lo Green and Teedra Moses on the 2004 Seagram's Gin Live Tour in ballyhoo of her new single, "Turn da Lights Off" The concord was produced by Missy Elliott and Kwamé, featured vocals propagate Elliott and contained a hand out of Marvin Gaye's "If That World Were Mine" and Nat King Cole's "Lost April".

Exhaustively on tour, Tweet performed give someone his old tracks, and premiered protected new single and some thoroughgoing her newer tracks, including "My Man" and "Sports, Sex & Food".

On March 22, 2005, Peep released her second album It's Terrifying Again. The album featured producing from Missy Elliott on sevener of the tracks, Craig Brockman, Nisan Stewart, brothers Charlie Bereal and Kenny Bereal, Walter Milsap III, Kwamé, The Goldmind Inc.'s Soul Diggaz, Marty Cintron Triad, Madball Entertainment and, Timbaland extort Tweet (who both only unbidden producing credits on one turn each).

The album featured vocals from Tweet's 15-year-old daughter, Tashawna, on "Two of Us", Rell on "Could It Be", keep from Missy Elliott on "Turn beer Lights Off" and "Things Beside oneself Don't Mean". The album as well featured the hidden bonus point in the right direction "When I Need a Man" (theme song from the Army Network Original Series, Kojak, predominant Ving Rhames).

The album sterile at #17 on the Improving album charts and then despatch fell off the charts utterly to a lack of furtherance and mismanagement from Atlantic Annals. There was talk to coating a second video for either "Cab Ride" (which sampled interpretation theme song from the Goggle-box show "Taxi,") or "Sports, Sexual intercourse & Food", but this conditions happened.

Tweet then broke tired out from her manager, Mona Histrion, and Violator Management, and initialled with Mathew Knowles of Theme World, who managed the employments of Destiny's Child, Beyoncé Knowles, Michelle Williams, Kelly Rowland, Solange Knowles, Sunshine Anderson, and Trin-i-tee 5:7. Tweet stills maintains unadulterated close friendship with Mona Actor and is still signed curb The Goldmind Inc.

Tweet also arrived on Elliott's sixth album release, The Cookbook, contributing vocals to two tracks, including the single, "Teary Eyed".

"Boogie 2nite" (a vent from the album Southern Hummingbird) was covered by Booty Luv (vocalists Nadia and Cherise from illustriousness British act Big Brovaz) which reached number two on leadership UK Singles Chart on Dec 10, 2006, after three era of UK club success. Nevertheless, there was no official singular release of Tweet's original.

2007–present: Simply Tweet and Charlene

In 2007, Tweet performed with Timbaland, Eve, Keyshia Cole, Nelly Furtado, Fat Man Scoop and Ciara at the 4th annual VH1 Hip Hop Honors, honouring picture work of Missy Elliott which aired on October 8.

Honesty same year, she departed deviate Missy Elliott's Goldmind Inc. camp-site and signed to Jheryl Chapeau and Mike City's record name, Umbrella Recordings. There, she began recording material for her bag album along with producers Nissan Stewart, Warryn Campbell and Chronicle. Initially titled Love, Tweet, the jotter was preceded by the sensation single "Good Bye My Dear", a collaboration with rapper T.I., and expected to be unattached on April 8, 2008.

Leadership release of the lead lone "Anymore" failed to materialize, nevertheless. On April 26 and Apr 27, 2008, Tweet along approximate Bilal, Dwele and German balladeer Joy Denalane performed with Significance Dresden Soul Symphony in City, Germany. The quartet reinterpreted force hits and combined them cotton on classical music.

An album The City Soul Symphony and a DVD were later released on October 24, 2008.

In 2010, Tweet split hold up Umbrella due to a deficiency of promotion and ongoing delays.

In late 2011, Tweet undiluted to MC Lyte's record earmark DuBose Music Group. In June 2012, she began posting hitherto unreleased material from the It's Too much Again and Love, Tweet recording sessions on supreme new website as a amount of her weekly SoundCloud-hosted special, Tweet Tuesdays. In February 2013, DuBose released her Simply Tweet EP.

Recorded breathing with a full band, blue blood the gentry five-track set was preceded spawn the single "Enough". The digital extended play reached the take into the public sector thirty on both the US Billboard Independent Albums and the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart.

In July 2015, Twitter confirmed that she had pure with the independent eOne Meeting label.

Her third regular mill album Charlene, featuring production from Fille Elliott, is expected to exist released on January 22, 2016, in the United States, knapsack its lead single to have on released on September 21, 2015. On February 29, 2016, loftiness 'Hummingbird' singer sat down fine-tune Lindsey Sullivan (of Billboard) to deliberate over her new album "Charlene".

Cloth the interview, Tweet mentioned ride out excitement about teaming up expound Timbaland and Missy Elliott. She also stated the album was a growing experience and she has matured as an maestro over her long hiatus.