She promoted the album by touring with rapper Nelly, performing on 12 dates in the tour. To promote the album, Amerie went on tour with Usher and Nas, traveling on Usher's "Evolution 8701 Tour" in 2002. Billboard 200 selling 89,000 copies in its first week of release the album has since been certified Gold by the RIAA and has sold 657,000 copies, according to Nielsen SoundScan.
Īmerie's debut album, All I Have (produced and co-written in its entirety by Rich Harrison), was released on July 30, 2002, to generally positive reviews. The song was an urban top twenty hit in Australia and reached the top forty in the UK. In July 2002, her debut single, " Why Don't We Fall in Love", was released, peaking at #23 on the Billboard Hot 100 and becoming a top ten hit on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs and Hot Dance Club Play charts. She recorded a song with Detroit rapper Royce da 5'9", titled "Life", the third and final single from his Rock City (Version 2.0) album. The single peaked at number 67 on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles & Tracks chart in the United States. When we would work together something great would happen." Career 2001–2003: All I Have Īmerie recorded the chorus for the 2001 single " Rule", performed by Nas. In a 2002 Interview with Hip Online, she said: "For some reason we had a very special chemistry. 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.
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