I was really feeling the beat, which surprised my A&R. The song started out in Philly, in the studio with just me and my engineer. I didn’t even want the song on the album if he wasn’t on it. I had got it in my head so much that it would be him on that second verse that there was just no other way. We did the song and we sent it to him a few times, but he just couldn’t do it because of scheduling. I wrote the first verse, loved it and the hook, and I was like, All this song needs is Kendrick Lamar on that second verse. So I started writing the song, and I wanted him to do the second verse. I thought he’d do it because I think the track sounds like something he would like. When I heard “Brand New,” it had this hip-hop vibe to it, and I was excited because I knew I wanted Kendrick Lamar on the song. Here, she talks to us about how she nearly walked away from album standout “Brand New” after Kendrick Lamar couldn’t contribute the verse she had her heart set on. Hiatus over, she reemerged with 2015’s acclaimed Reality Show, now nominated for Best R&B Album. Up first is Jazmine Sullivan, Philadelphia’s sweetheart with a voice that’s decade’s beyond her years, who shocked the R&B world when she prematurely announced her retirement in 2011.
As an Executive Producer and sole songwriter on Fearless, Sullivan (along with her mother, Missy Elliott, Salaam Remi and Peter Edge) has orchestrated a debut opus full of lush musical arrangements by Elliott, Remi, Stargate, Jack Splash, and Fisticuffs.Ahead of the 2016 Grammys, Vulture spoke with a handful of artists whose albums are nominated this year about the toughest songs they wrote for them. Jazmine's debut album Fearless was released September 23, 2008. “Then when McDonald’s had a competition for kids in major cities, I got a chance to perform ‘Accept What God Allows’ on ‘Showtime at the Apollo’ and the audience responded really well. Jazmine’s exposure to secular music was initially limited, "I was doing solos in church and someone wanted me to sign to a gospel label when I was eleven but I wasn’t ready to do that," she recalls. Still, Sullivan managed to persevere and began singing in the children’s choir, then a few years later with the adults, along with her mother. She is a 2005 graduate of the Philadelphia high school for the Creative and Performing Arts where she was a vocal music major.
Meanwhile, Jazmine struggled to assimilate at school. When she was 5 years old, her father landed a position as a curator for the city's Strawberry Mansion, and her family moved into the historical landmark, where they lived rent free. Elements of reggae, dub, pop, jazz, classical music and doo-wop can be heard in her work.īorn and raised in North Philadelphia, Jazmine Sullivan grew up in a two-parent household, the middle sister between two brothers. Her debut single "Need U Bad" featuring Missy Elliott has reached number one on Billboard's Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart. She is also the protégé of famous rapper Missy Elliott.
Jazmine Marie Sullivan (born April 9, 1987) is an American R&B and soul music singer-songwriter from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
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