Lauryn was eight months pregnant, laying on her back on the floor, half asleep, holding a handheld mike. I had a little one-room 16-track studio in my apartment in Jersey. She didn't know how the arrangement of the song went, so we went and got a copy from Coconuts or Sam Goody. She called me and said she was behind and had to get it done. It was originally recorded for Conspiracy Theory and ended up on the radio, became popular, and that's how it ended became a bonus track. I became known around campus as the dude who played on 'Everything Is Everything.' It was my little claim to fame at Penn for my whole senior year.Д¬ommissioner Gordon: 'Can't Take My Eyes Off of You' was never meant to be a commercial single. She guided me a little bit but it was pretty simple because I was playing along with a string part that was already there. Lauryn was working 'Everything Is Everything.' I sang and played a couple songs for her. A friend invited me to give her a ride to Lauryn's house in Jersey. John Legend: I was in the spring of my junior year at University of Pennsylvania. We were having a conversation about her relationship in the little studio in her attic in South Orange, and that's how 'I Used to Love Him' came about. We were making songs for other people and the songs started becoming too personal and we were like, wait a minute, this is your story. And then we started working on a song called 'Loved Real Hard Once' - the title got switched Those were the first two records that we worked on. Nobles: There was a female group called Ex Factor signed to Arista and we did a song called 'Ex Factor' for them.

But that human element, that's what makes the hair on the back of my neck stand up. You can't get that from a computer, because a computer's too perfect. I don't like to use compressors and take away my textures, because I was raised on music that was recorded before technology advanced to the place where it could be smooth. I like the rawness of you being able to hear the scratch in the vocals. Lauryn Hill: write songs that lyrically move me and have the integrity of reggae and the knock of hip-hop and the instrumentation of classic soul. Kelly.ДЄ very interesting read, if I must say. As a performer, she's shared the stage with such prominent artists as Stevie Wonder and Anita Baker, and she's opened shows for many more, including Earth, Wind & Fire, Musiq Soulchild, Floetry, Rahsann Paterson, and R.

Following this experience, Williams took on the YahZarah moniker and went solo, releasing a pair of underground albums: Hear Me (released by Keo Music) and Blackstar (Three Keys). She went on to study music at both the Duke Ellington School of Music and North Carolina Central University, and got her break into the industry alongside Badu, who featured Williams on the Mama's Gun album and tour. Born Dana Williams in Washington, D.C., YahZarah (whose name loosely means 'Queen Mother is the brightest star' - itself a tribute to her deceased grandmother from Ghana) was greatly influenced as a child by soul greats like Tina Turner, Prince, Chaka Khan, George Clinton, and Minnie Riperton, as well as the music of the church. YahZarah broke into the music industry alongside Erykah Badu, whom she sung backup for on Mama's Gun, and in turn established herself as a solo artist in a similar vein, releasing a couple independent albums during the early 2000s. I don't know.maybe I'm just being a greedy, impatient fan. It's not like she flopped or anything, her album went gold with very little promo. Second of all, what is she doing now? We should've heard some new material or news on a new album by now. 'If I Have My Way' and 'Be OK' were good choices, but I think 'Good Girl' and 'Let's Rock' should've been released instead of 'Best Of Me' and 'Love Is You.' 'Love Is You' is a BEAUTIFUL song, but it should've been a treat that you get when you hear the album, you know what I mean? It wasn't single worthy. First of all, the wrong singles were chosen. She has a GREAT voice, we haven't had an artist like her around in a while. When her album came out, I ran out and bought it(it's available here for download) and it was excellent. I fell in love with her voice as soon as I heard it. Okay, so I'm a HUGE fan of Chrisette Michele.

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