The Braxtons
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The Braxtons were a 1990s pop group, signed to Atlantic Records. It featured Toni Braxton and her four sisters (Traci, Trina, Towanda and Tamar). Toni left the group for a solo career in 1991. Traci left the group as well, and the remaining sisters released So Many Ways in 1996.

different tamar, i think.

but with the prince-tamar, 'tamar' isn't even her real first name, is it? she was in some band with destiny's child before they were big or something like that...don't make me fire up the google!

Tamar's 1st name is Ashley and Tamar Braxton younger...
and I think Tamar Braxton's name is pronounced Tuh-Mar

here we go again...Ashley "Tamar" Davis is not Tamar Braxton. Ashley "Tamar" Davis is from Houston, but was never in Destiny's Child.

She was in a band called Girls Tyme with Beyonce at the age of 12, which is when she first met Prince.

Here are the specifics:
Ashley has been singing, acting and dancing since the age of 3 in her hometown of Houston, Texas. She is the 2004 NAACP Nominee in the category for Best Lead Female Actress and former Miss Black Texas Teen 1997-98. Besides singing with ANGAZA, she has been the featured vocalist on Lee Ritenour's "Twist of Motown" tour. She has also performed with Gerald Albright and Phil Perry at 94.7 The Wave jazz concerts. As a background vocalist she has performed with Celine Dion, Yolanda Adams, Rev. Donnie McClurkin and CeCe Winans, to name a few. Ashley is also an accomplished actress and has performed in numerous plays, musicals, on television and in motion pictures.

Birthplace:
Houston, Texas.

Siblings:
I have one older (Nolan Jay), one younger (Sean) brother and 2 older half-sisters (Shell and Chaquita). My 2 brothers live in LA.

Pets:
No, but well, I have to say that my baby brother Sean is my pet! He keeps me laughing all the time.

Did you grow up playing music?
I started singing in public at age 3; I started when I was a baby. My first performance was at the Baby Singing Contest at age 3. I sang, "Believe in yourself" from WIZ.

First concert you attended:
I was 14 years old; I went to see Boyz to Men, Babyface and En Vogue.

First album you bought:
"My way" by Usher. How hot is he!
And now he is back with a hot album when people said that he couldn't do it. Usher to me has no gimmick: He can sing and at the end of the day, that's what will keep him going. He sings from his heart and when he takes the stage he captures you from beginning to end. I look forward to doing a duet with him.

Musical influences:
Growing up I loved Michael Jackson, Janet Jackson, Whitney Houston, Babyface, Yolanda Adams, Celine Dion, Lauryn Hill, Roberta Flack and Chaka Khan, Sting

Favorite instrument:
My favorite instrument is the guitar. I've taken a few lessons and I'm learning how to play. I like the sound that the guitar adds to music because it takes you away to far places and it makes you groove. You don't need a pianist or a drummer to get the vibe of any song led by a guitar.

Favorite song/album:
My favorite songs are "Almost Doesn't Count " by Brandy and "When You Believe' from the Prince of Egypt soundtrack by Whitney Houston and Mariah Carey.

Musical guilty pleasure:
I like Sting and one of my favorite songs for me to get wild and crazy is Prince's "Kiss."

Favorite movie:
Sound of Music - I love the melodies on the sound track.
Little Rascals - because they are cute and bad, and they act so grown up.

Favorite kind of food:
French fries, Flamin' Hot Cheetos, Chicken Caesar Salad - I eat it almost every day.

If you weren't a musician, what would you be?
I would say it would be either a WNBA Coach because after playing basketball with my little brother, I've learned that it really challenges your workout skills. I would also like to be a Ballerina because I've taken ballet all of my life and I would like to be in The Nutcracker at least once.

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Paper: HOUSTON CHRONICLE
Date: TUE 08/18/1992
Section: Houston
Page: 1
Edition: 2 STAR
GIRLS TYME/OK guys, step aside. Six Houston preteens figure it's their turn for success in the music business

By CHERYL LAIRD
Staff
THE way these kids figure it, we've seen enough teen-age boys who can hit the high notes and grind their hips in unison.
So, farewell New Edition and New Kids on the Block. So long Kriss Kross, Another Bad Creation and Hi-Five. "Hasta la vista" Boyz II Men and Jodeci.
Meet Girls Tyme. These six Houston preteens can blend soaring harmonies, deliver gritty rap solos and pump out grooving dance moves. And they're not boys.

"We hope to be the No. 1 girls group and send positive messages and bring people to see what we're talking about and make this world a better place," singer Ashley Davis, 12, explains in one breath.
It's an expansive goal, considering Ashley and her friends have yet to make a record. And, since they're girls, the road to success is likely to be all the more tough.

With notable exceptions such as En Vogue and TLC, today's popular sing-and-dance groups are dominated by guys.

"Most of the big groups are guy groups. I don't know if it's because they have
more opportunities or if they have more appeal," says Greg Head, music director for contemporary-hits radio KBXX (97.9-FM).

But the time may be right for girl groups. Three weeks ago KBXX began playing a song called "Yeah, Yeah, Yeah!" by Voices, a group of 12-year-old girls. Head says the phone has been ringing with requests from young listeners.

Girls Tyme's producer and songwriter, Alonzo Jackson, says pop superstar Prince has called twice about wanting to record the group on his Paisley Park record label. (Prince's publicist says nothing is official.)

"They are very talented, I mean, extremely talented. They seem to be on their way up," says Howard Harris, founder of the People's Workshop of Houston, a non-profit educational organization that promotes the local performing arts.
But the six members of Girls Tyme aren't spending time dwelling on business opportunities. They stay busy juggling school and social schedules with up to six hours of dance-and-song practice per day.

In addition to Ashley, group members are singers Beyonce Knowles, 10, and Kelly Rowland, 11, and dancers/rappers Latavia Roberson, 10, Nikki Taylor, 13, and her sister Nina Taylor, 11.

They go to five different Houston-area schools. All are honor-roll students from middle-class families.

Until a year ago, most of them didn't know each other. They were selected from more than 30 girls who auditioned in July 1991 for a group of women, including present manager Ann Tillman, who thought there was a market for a girls' group.
Since then, the girls -- now best friends -- have performed at the Black Expo, the Miss Black Houston Metroplex pageant, AstroWorld and a Dallas high school, opening for rapper Yo-Yo. Their biggest gig to date was the 1992 Sammy Davis Jr. Awards Saturday night at the Wortham Center.

Their songs, written by Jackson and Tony Moore, combine rhythm and blues, rap and pop. Most are innocent ditties about boys and world unity.

The girls design most of their own choreography, which combines tough, aggressive, hip-pumping dance moves in unison with soulful solos to the audience. Beyonce, who isn't yet allowed to date, once pulled a preteen boy onstage for an eye-to-eye serenade before releasing him, embarrassed but grinning, to his seat.

They are cool-headed for young girls, responding to questions with complete sentences, lots of smiles and only a few giggles. They count as among their favorite performers En Vogue, Michael Jackson and Hammer, but, in classic professional form, hesitate to catalog themselves.

"We have our own style," lead rapper Latavia explains.

http://www.chron.com/CDA/...92_1074953

BlaqueKnight said:

Hell nah!!

Thanks yall, my bad!

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