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Brooke Valentine
(born October 5, 1984 in Houston, Texas), is an American
R&B singer-songwriter. She started her musical
career as a member of the female group Best Kept Secret.
To pursue a solo career, she moved to Los Angeles,
California and signed to Subliminal Entertainment/Virgin
Records. She released her debut album Chain Letter in
March of 2005. It sold just 340,000 copies in the US.
The album features her hit debut single,
"Girlfight" released late 2004, in a
collaboration with rappers Big Boi and Lil Jon, a song
about tension between two girls which ends up in a
catfight.
The first single from her sophomore album Physical
Education was "D-Girl" ("Dope Girl")
which charted even lower than her previous single
efforts. The second single, "Pimped Out" was
released in November '06 and went nowhere, becoming
another very unsuccesful single for Valentine. The album
has been delayed several times and the current release
date has not been announced.
Brooke Valentine (born October 4, 1984 in Houston,
Texas) is a female R&B singer and songwriter. She
started her musical career as a member of the female
group Best Kept Secret. To pursue a solo career, she
moved to Los Angeles, California and signed to
Subliminal Entertainment/Virgin Records. She released
her debut album Chain Letter in March of 2005. The album
features her hit debut single, "Girlfight", a
collaboration with rappers Big Boi and Lil Jon.
Valentine's music can be categorized as Crunk & B.
A native of Houston, Texas, Valentine ups the ante for
creative expression with her Subliminal
Entertainment/Virgin Records debut disc CHAIN LETTER. A
melodic pilgrimage through the perils and joys of a
young female life, CHAIN LETTER is refreshingly skimpy
on gimmicks and ample on innovation. Valentine's diverse
musical tastes create the album's universal pulse by
serving a delectable stir-fry of R&B, pop,
alternative and rock - offering something for all music
lovers.
Only 19 years of age, she explores the kaleidoscope of
human emotions - the good, bad and the sometimes
downright ugly. "When you're listening to my album,
I want you to know that things happen and eventually you
get over it," she declares. "CHAIN LETTER
takes you on a ride as you go through different phases
in your life."
The journey beings with "rhythm & crunk"
party-starter "Girlfight," produced by
self-described 'King of Crunk' Lil' Jon featuring
Outkast's Big Boi, which cleverly brews tension between
two groups of women that finally festers into an all-out
street brawl. On the hypnotic ladies anthem "Taste
of Dis," Valentine delivers the kinetic energy and
seduction that listeners will immediately grasp. Amid
syncopated beats she encourages women to celebrate their
sex appeal and tap into their 'inner diva.' Valentine
also invites us inside her more satirical persona with
the cleverly macabre ode "I Want U Dead,"
which shares her morbid though of revenge on an ex-beau,
from poking holes in his condoms to running his car in a
ditch - no punishment is too great to avenge heartbreak.
The hip call-and-response track "Blah, Blah,
Blah," featuring the late, great Dirt McGirt (aka
Ol' Dirty Bastard), is about a woman who feels smothered
by her man and wants her freedom without giving up her
relationship. On the flip side, Valentine expresses a
woman's vulnerability on the melancholy 'Tell Me Why
Don't You Love Me," about a woman's' insecurity in
a challenging relationships, while her feathery vocals
on the beautifully harmonic "Cover Girl,"
addresses a woman's need to always be her man's sole
object of desire.
Unlike many new artists, Valentine co-wrote her entire
album in just four months with her executive producer
Deja, CEO of Subliminal Entertainment, an independent
label and production company. Because of their
around-the-clock worth ethic, they were very selecting
when recruiting their dream team of producers. "It
was important that this album was an accurate reflection
of me," she explains. "We worked with
producers who didn't try to change that." Deja
reached out to the industry's producing elite and before
he knew it the collaborations developed with the speed
of a real chain letter, with several producers and
artists wanting to be involved with the project.
"The vision for the album was to choose producers
with versatility, but who could work without
boundaries," says Deja, who has been producing
since the tender age of 16. (His production work has
been included on several albums that have collectively
sold over six million copies.) "All the different
musical styles make sense, like listening to a great
film soundtrack."
CHAIN LETTER's production henchmen include Soul Diggas
(Destiny's Child Missy Elliott), Heat makers (Lil'
Flip), BloodShy (Britney Spears, Christina Milian), Bink
(Jay-Z), and Tricky (Britney, TLC). All their
contributions produced an impressive archive of 200+
songs. Collectively, that catalogue reflected
Valentine's electric musical taste and influences, which
include artists as diverse as Janet and Michael Jackson,
Red Hot Chili Peppers, Alanis Morrisette, Blondie, Pat
Benatar, Sade, Angela Winbush, Anita Baker, Faith Hill,
Shania Twain and Linkin Park.
As a youngster, Valentine, the eldest of three children,
entertained herself by singing along with radio. It was
a fifth-grade solo debut during a schoolyard recess that
inspired her to hone the talent she knew she possessed.
A timid, 10-year-old Valentine mustered the courage to
join her classmates as they sang acapella during recess,
unleashing her surprising pipes upon her peers and
teachers.
Adding to the admiration she received at school,
Valentine's grandmother acknowledged her God-given
talent and began putting her grandbaby on the spot for
impromptu solos at church. "I would sit in the back
at church every Sunday trying to hide," she laughs.
"and just when I thought I'd gotten through the
service without her calling on me to sing 'His Eye Is On
The Sparrow,' she'd always call me up."
Between school and church, Valentine began fine-tuning
her instrument whenever she had a free moment. Just when
her singing career seemed to be turning into a dream
deferred, Valentine met Deja, the first person outside
of the schoolyard that had taken time to really hear her
voice. After an impromptu audition for the burgeoning
producer, Deja teamed a 14-year-old Valentine with two
other girls and called them BKS (Best Kept Secret); they
began performing shows from state to state.
After graduation, the girls forged ahead on different
career paths, but Valentine remained committed to her
craft. "I was so used to being in a group, I
thought that's how it needed to be until Deja asked me
to perform one night at a showcase. I realized that it
felt very natural performing solo and we decided right
there that's how I'd continue to perform." In 2002,
Valentine deiced to follow her executive producer and
mentor to Los Angeles, where she began the grueling
process of her artist development - writing and
performing locally in the hopes of securing a record
deal. The big break came in 2002 when Deja gave a demo
to Virgin executive; the rest is musical history.
Despite the music industry's saturation of carbon-copy
soulsters, this southern belle's debut is sure to set a
precedent among her peers and shepherd the new wave of
artists into a utopia where originality and free
creative spirit is the norm. Be on the lookout for
Brooke Valentine and her brilliant CHAIN LETTER.
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