- Exhale (band)
Exhale was a unique
R&B female music trio comprising of Tasha Belton, Tiko George, and Toya Watson of Fairmont Heights High School in Prince George's County] ,Maryland . They were signed toReal Deal Records , a company founded by boxing legendEvander Holyfield . Their manager wasMelinda Zanecki fromeMphasis, inc. , and their representative was John F. Mercer. [ [http://www.teclawgroup.com/Links/OfCounsel/JohnMercer.asp Teclawgroup.com] ]They describe their music as having "the attitude of TLC combined with a more traditional R&B flavor, like En Vogue, but we're still funky fresh."
Debut
They had one album, the self-titled "Exhale". It was released in
2002 and produced the group's first and last 2 singles.The first being "Chillin' In Your Benz", "Benz" referring to the car brand
Mercedes-Benz . It had one music video made for it, in which thechoreography was done by Kirk L. Jennings. [ [http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=94465534 MySpace.com] ]"Still Not Over You" was their second single, which also had a music video, directed by Smith n' Borin, and released in the week of
June 10 ,2002 . [ [http://www.mvdbase.com/video.php?id=31740 MvdBase.com] ]Two of their songs were nominated for the Eighth Annual Soul Train Lady Of Soul Awards. Chillin' In Your Benz for "BEST R&B/SOUL SINGLE, GROUP, BAND, OR DUO", and Still Not Over You for "BEST R&B/SOUL OR RAP NEW ARTIST, GROUP, BAND OR DUO". [ [http://www.xs4all.nl/~mroyen/News/2002/news_july_28_2002.htm Xs4All.com] ]
Disband
The group broke up during the early production stages of the second album, only recording one single song for it.
References
External links
*http://www.xs4all.nl/~mroyen/News/2001/news_august_19_2001.htm
* [http://wc09.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=11:dnfixqqkldke~T0 Profile at]Allmusic
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