2004年,Keyshia Cole憑藉她出色的演唱技巧獲得了A&M唱片公司總裁Ron Fair (隆斐爾)的賞識,很快拿到了自己第一張唱片契約。第二年,她的白金銷量的處女作The Way It Is正式發行。這張專輯收錄了她的三首熱門歌曲“I Changed My Mind (我改變心意了)”、“I Should Have Cheated (我該欺騙你)”以及“Love (愛情)”。在成功的單曲推動之下,發行首周,The Way It Is就以8萬9千張的銷量登上了美國Billboard專輯榜的第6位。
2007年,Keyshia Cole的第二張專輯Just Like You發行。這張專輯中收錄的熱門單曲多達5首,其中有和饒舌巨星Diddy (吹牛老爹)合作的“Last Night (昨夜)”,兩位嘻哈女將Missy Elliott (蜜西 埃略特)和Lil' Kim (李爾金)幫腔的“Let It Go (隨它去)”,以及“I Remember (我還記得)”、“Shoulda Let You Go (不該讓你走)”和“Heaven Sent(來自天堂)”。這張專輯憑藉著28萬1千張的首周銷售量登上了美國Billboard專輯榜的第2位。發行不久,Just Like You也在美國被認證為白金專輯。在第50屆葛萊美上,這張專輯收穫了“最佳當代R&B專輯”的提名,與Missy Elliott、Lil' Kim合作的單曲“Let It Go”也被提名為“最佳說唱/演唱合作”。
個人榮譽
Keyshia Cole是曾獲格萊美提名的美國知名R&B創作歌手、唱片製作人,她以充滿靈魂風味的嗓音而聞名。在2005年,Keyshia Cole發行了她的第一張錄音室專輯The Way It Is (就是這樣);緊接著又在2007年推出了第二張專輯Just Like You (和你一樣)。這兩張專輯都在美國本土獲得了白金(一百萬)銷量,從此奠定了她在美國新生代R&B女歌手中的地位。Keyshia Cole在採訪中坦言:“Mary J. Blige (瑪麗布萊姬)和Brandy (白蘭蒂)的音樂對我造成了巨大的影響。”,這也就不難解釋為何她的聲望正以令人難以相信的速度向著她那兩位成功的歌手偶像靠攏。
現在,Keyshia Cole正在忙於錄製她的第三張個人專輯Keyshia,這張專輯預計將在2008年晚些時候發行。與此同時,她在BET電視台推出的大獲好評的真人秀節目——“Keyshia Cole: The Way It Is”的第三季也正在緊鑼密鼓的拍攝中,這個節目預計將在2008年秋天正式首映。
音樂作品
第一張個人專輯
唱片:The Way It Is
藝人:Keyshia Cole
地區:歐美
公司:環球音樂
發行:2006年4月27日
專輯介紹:Keyshia在這張專輯裡與許多樂壇名人共同表演、創作,像是112合唱團的DaRon、饒舌歌手Chink Santana、名製作人E-Poppi,甚至嘻哈界的超級巨星、葛萊美獎得主Kanye West等等,Kanye還和Keyshia共同創作了專輯中的首支單曲I Changed My Mind。
推薦第6首Love,個人感覺還行,而且製作班底還算比較強吧
KEYSHIA COLE is the real deal. Like many young people raised in tough neighborhoods, the 21-year-old songstress endured a tumultuous childhood in Oakland, California, and has fought all her life to keep her dream of a music career alive. Now she’s realizing that dream on her own terms with her first album for the A&M label, The Way It Is. It’s been a long road for Keyshia, but it’s her powerful voice – a bell-like instrument whose soaring clarity is topped off with a tantalizing touch of soulful grit – that’s carried her through, not to mention the diminutive singer’s personal combination of sugar, spice, sass and sex appeal, along with a solid-steel spine. With production by Kanye West, Krucial Keys, Ron Fair and Chink Santana, Keyshia’s dreams have been realized. (轉自Amazon)
Keyshia Cole (born October 15, 1981) is an American R&B singer-songwriter known for her soulful voice. She released her platinum selling debut album The Way It Is in 2005.
Just Like You is the second album by American R&B singer Keyshia Cole, Cole started work on her second album shortly after the release of her debut "The Way It Is". About the album, Cole says, "This album is more about you, inside, and how you need to get yourself together, rather than pointing at somebody else and saying, 'You don't treat me right, you don't do this.' I'm truly lovin it, I listen to it myself. The last album, I didn't really listen to until I went on tour. [Because] when you listen to your own experience, it's like, I don't wanna hear it anymore. I do write from my personal experiences, but I think it's very important to young women."