Michelle Williams (singer)
Tenitra Michelle Williams ( born July 23, 1980 in Rockford, Illinois) is an American R & B and gospel singer. Notoriety she gained as a member of the R & B trio Destiny 's Child, to which she belonged from 2000 until the dissolution of the band in 2005.
- 2.1 Studio albums
- 2.2 Singles
Biography
Youth
Michelle Williams came in 1980 as the third child of devout Christians in Rockford, Illinois to the world. At the age of four, she began singing in the church choir, later they made as a member of the quartet United Harmony ( which also includes her sister Cameron belonged ) attracted attention. In addition to studying criminal justice at Illinois State University Williams toured until the end of 1999 as a background singer with R & B singer Monica by the United States.
Destiny 's Child
Following the departure of the founding members LeToya Luckett and LaTavia Roberson Williams finally got to be part of the renewal of the R & B quartet Destiny 's Child the offer. They then left Rockford and moved to Houston, Texas to work with the other members can. Both Williams and the second new Farrah Franklin first appeared in the music video to the published in February 2000 No. 1 single Say My Name. The latter left the band due to internal problems again after only five months; Destiny 's Child were now on as a trio composed.
In the late autumn of 2000 published Destiny 's Child, the single Independent Women Part I, the film song to cinema success 3 Charlie's Angels and harbingers of their third album Survivor, Mai appeared in 2001 and in the U.S., the UK and in Germany, Austria and Switzerland space # 1 on the album charts occupied. The record sold in the U.S. alone by the end of 2001 more than 4 million copies and brought with Survivor, Bootylicious and emotion ( a cover version of the Bee Gees ) produced three more hit singles. After the subsequent world tour, the paths of the band members in favor of solo careers in 2002, parted for the time being.
Two years later, in 2004, Williams, Rowland and Knowles met again to record their fourth studio album Destiny Fulfilled. The album sold more than six million copies and produced the singles Lose My Breath, Soldier Girl Cater 2 U and other top 10 hits. On 11 June 2005, the band finally announced their final separation during their world tour in Barcelona, Spain. In 2012, the band started making a comeback.
Solo career
Initial success as a solo artist celebrated Williams with her Gospel album Heart to Yours. Published in April 2002 CD sold in the U.S. alone, more than 200,000 copies and thus climbed up to # 1 on the U.S. Gospel Charts. With Heard a Word, however, the album spawned only one extraction. Subsequently, the singer took over for a few months, the main role in the Broadway musical Aida.
In early 2004, Columbia Records finally released Williams' second solo album, Do You Know. The record reached number # 3 on the Billboard Gospel Albums chart, but could with almost 80,000 units sold, not to follow the success of the solo debut and was in the wake of the release of Destiny 's Child album Destiny Fulfilled inclusive of three new songs for a second time veröffentlicht.6
Beginning of 2008, Williams was in the role of blues singer Shug Avery The Color Purple undertake in the Music version of the book. Parallel to this, she led the work continues on her third studio album Unexpected, which was published in August 2008 in North America and will be guided increasingly by his own admission to R & B and dance music. The first single We Break the Dawn in 2008 reached the top of the " U.S. Billboard Dance Airplay Charts. "
2007 Michelle Williams landed a role in Beyoncé's video for the single Get Me Boodied with it were also still Kelly Rowland and Solange Knowles. A new dance track titled On the Run has surfaced on the internet. Exactly when the track will be released as a single, is still unclear. In February 2013 Williams appeared with Destiny 's Child ( Beyonce and Kelly Rowland ) on the Super Bowl and sang Destiny -Child hit Bootylicious and Beyoncé Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It ). Michelle Williams since mid-2012, working on her new album. Michelle is listening to Kelly Rowland's new album Talk a Good Game along with Beyoncé Knowles. Williams new single is called If We Had Your Eyes and was internationally released on June 24, 2013 as a digital download. The new fourth album, entitled Journey to Freedom. The next single from the album is called Fire. Williams, Kelly Rowland and Pharrell Williams are seeing in Knowles music video for the song Super Power.