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Jamelia

Soul music

Contemporary R&B

Dance pop

The daughter of a Zimbabwean father and a Jamaican mother, Jamelia was raised in Birmingham in the English Midlands and, sending a tape of herself singing self-written acapella songs to record companies, was signed by Capitol Records at 15. She released her first single So High in 1999, left Capitol and moved to Parlophone Records, and had her first hits in 2000 with I Do and Money (featuring Beenie Man), followed by the album Drama. There were further hits with Call Me and Boy Next Door, though her major mainstream breakthrough came in 2002 with the Thank You album; which includ...