According to Amerie, she and Harrison immediately hit it off. This led to her first record deal with Columbia Records. Blige's albums Mary and No More Drama, began recording and developing demos with Amerie. Instantly they knew it was something special. McDonald's parking lot was chosen, where Rich played his tracks and Amerie sang along. During an interview with Maxim Magazine, Amerie said she agreed to meet up with Rich at a public location because she did not know Rich. club promoter who eventually put her in touch with producer Rich Harrison. While studying at Georgetown, Amerie befriended a Washington, D.C. in English and a Fine Arts minor in design. I joined so I could afford an education." She quit ROTC after her sophomore year and graduated with a B.A. The singer enrolled at Georgetown University to study literature, and was in Navy ROTC: "My dad didn't force me into it or anything. Growing up, she and her sister were forbidden to leave the house or use the phone on school days. She has a younger sister, Angela Rogers, who is now her lawyer.Īmerie has described her parents as conservative, protective, traditional Christians. military, so the family lived in many different places, including Alaska, Texas, Virginia and Germany. Her father was a chief warrant officer in the U.S. A few months after she was born, the Rogers family moved to South Korea, where Amerie lived for three years. Rogers was born in Fitchburg, Massachusetts, to a Korean mother named Mi Suk and an African American father, Charles Rogers. 2.5 2011–present: BILI, Cymatika trilogy and independent releases.In any case … both songs turned out to be hits - a lot of Harrison’s tracks did, in fact - and one question a lot of people are asking as a result is … why can’t we just appreciate everyone’s achievements and let the past live in the past? Indeed. Upon learning this, they say Amerie went ahead and leaked ‘1 Thing’ to radio stations on her own, and because it became so popular … Columbia had to back down and let it be.
This has been a recurring theme in J Lo’s music career - Fat Joe even touched on it not too long ago - but the alleged tale goes … ‘1 Thing’ was supposedly being shopped to J Lo BTS, and the Columbia label heads actually wanted it to go to her instead of Amerie. However, there’s one other element here that’s also getting some attention as it relates to Amerie and J Lo, specifically … namely, old stories/rumors that Jen was allegedly getting prioritized over labelmates/contemporaries.
Amerie and J Lo, meanwhile, came out with their songs, “1 Thing” and “Get Right,” around the same time in 2005 … with JL getting a slightly earlier release in January.Īnd spoiler alert … ALL of these songs were produced by Harrison, so of course they sound alike! Everybody was dipping their toe into the RH pool here.Īs for who did what first - between Bey, J and Amerie, that is - it would appear Beyonce was, in fact, the first of the 3 to trot out Harrison’s sound with ‘CIL’ (’04), even though KR might’ve arguably had it first with ’02’s “Can’t Nobody” - and perhaps others used it even before then. Fact is, he was making “go-go” beats for just about all them, and others in the game too … including Toni Braxton, Kelly Rowland and even Mary J. Harrison was a producer in the 2000s who was working a lot with Columbia Records - who had all these ladies under their roster in the early to mid-2000s. Of course, a proper timeline of events is necessary here to put things in context … as is an explanation of who the heck Rich Harrison is, because he’s at the center of all of this - and the main reason for the comparisons being made in the first place. With tracks of theirs like “Crazy In Love” and “Get Right,” respectively, employing similar break beats and drum patterns - some have even gone so far as to claim that B and J (Lo) actually hijacked Amerie’s whole aesthetic … and, thus, robbed her of her thunder. The reason folks feel like that … her fans say this unique sound featured on the song, which is often referred to as “go-go” and was quite popular at the time, is one that ended up also getting used by stars like Bey and J Lo, among other female R&B singers back then. Here’s the deal … the 2005 track - featured on Amerie’s 2nd album, ‘Touch’ - resurfaces on Twitter every few months, like it’s doing now, with many arguing her mainstream success was cut short … and not just that, but that she was allegedly done dirty by the industry. Every so often, Amerie’s hit single ‘1 Thing’ crops up online - and like clockwork, a fierce debate gets fired up … inevitably bringing Beyonce and Jennifer Lopez into the convo.
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