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Keri Hilson Profile |
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Birth Date: October 27, 1982
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Birth Place: Atlanta, Georgia, USA
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Birth Name: Keri Lynn Hilson
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Biography |
Keri Hilson is an American R&B singer and songwriter signed
to Zone 4/Mosley Music Group/Interscope Records. She is part
of a collective of writers and producers known as The
Clutch.
Keri Hilson grew up near Atlanta, Georgia, to
African-American parents Christine and Gamaliel Hilson,
where she graduated from Tucker High School. She was an
active participant in extracurricular activities such as
swimming and basketball. At the age of fourteen, she joined
a band called D'Sign, who was dropped from their label
before recording an album.
Hilson has been writing music for other artists since 2001,
including Britney Spears, Ciara, Usher, and Ludacris.
Despite having made a name for herself as an arranger and
background vocalist, lending her vocal talents to many of
the songs she wrote on, Hilson remained behind the scenes
for the most part until 2004, when she was featured on
Xzibit's single, "Hey Now (Mean Muggin)" and made her
performing debut singing the track live at the 2004 MTV
Europe Awards.
In 2006, Hilson reappeared on the music scene in the video
for Nelly Furtado's single "Promiscuous". Meanwhile, she had
signed as an artist with Timbaland's newly formed Interscope
associated label Mosley Music Group and the pair had started
work on her debut album '"In A Perfect World...". The same
year, she was featured on "After Love" from Diddy's album
Press Play as well as "Help", the second single from Lloyd
Banks' Rotten Apple.
In 2007, Hilson made several appearances on Timbaland's solo
effort, Shock Value where she featured heavily on the
singles "The Way I Are" and "Scream" and the tracks
"Miscommunication" and "Hello". Furthermore, she was
featured on the track "Lost Girls" on Rich Boy's debut album
and its second single "Good Things" and was credited as a
writer and backing vocalist on Britney Spears' album
Blackout. She also worked on Spears' follow-up "Circus", but
the tracks didn't appear on the album.
A promotional video for her song "Where Did He Go" and her
debut album was released in 2008 and she went on to further
promote herself as a solo artist on "Get It Girl", a track
produced by Timbaland & Danja and recorded for a Verizon
ringtone promotion and available also through iTunes.
She also played the lead role in Usher's music video for
"Love in This Club", (as well as co-writing its "Pt. II"
remix) appeared as one of the "independent women" in Ne-Yo's
music video for "Miss Independent" and appeared briefly on
Nelly's "Party People" music video wearing a T-Shirt with
the slogan 'Hip Hop aint dead'. Ironically, she soon after
featured on Nas' debut single from his controversial album
Untitled, "Hero".
After many pushbacks, Hilson's debut solo album In a Perfect
World... has now been set for an early 2009 release. The
album's first single was "Energy" and its music video was
released July 14, 2008. The second single "Return the Favor"
was released officially as a digital download on October 7,
2008 and the video, directed by Melina, premiered on October
23, 2008. In the meantime, she also featured on Chris
Brown's singles "Superhuman" and "Forever", and Kardinal
Offishall's second single "Numba 1 (Tide Is High)", which
was originally supposed to feature Rihanna. The track
"Turnin' Me On" was released as the third digital single on
November 25. The video, which was directed by Erik White
after he and Hilson met on the set of the "Superhuman"
video, premiered on November 20, 2008. |
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since January 16, 2009