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July 8, 2011

It’s been an exciting year for Grammy-nominated recording artist Ameriie. On June 25th she married her dream guy, former Columbia Records executive Lenny Nicholson, on a cliff in a beautiful island ceremony, and now she’s back in the studio creating a new album for her fans.

We caught up with the new Mrs. Nicholson when she returned from her luxe honeymoon in Anguilla, and she was all smiles over her new life as a wife. To our surprise, the famously private songstress really opened up for the first time ever about her love and connection with Lenny.

Check out what the gushing bride had to say about why she loves Lenny, her top wedding moments, and why she can’t wait to share her new album.

ESSENCE: How did you and Lenny fall in love?

AMERIIE: They asked me whom I wanted to A&R my album. I asked for Lenny Nicholson because he’s the only one I knew I could really trust around my stuff. At the time I just knew I liked what he did. I knew his name but I didn’t completely know how much he’d already helped my career. It was cool. We never really spoke that much. Sparks hadn’t flown yet. I knew he was cute and I know now he thought I was cute because he remembers to this day what I had on.

I was working on my second album. The whole vibe of this album was that I’m free and I’m single and I’m not checking for anybody. So I’m there and I feel a tap on my shoulder. I look up and it’s him. I didn’t totally recognize him because he had a hat on. So I’m like, “Who are you?” He’s like, “I’m your A&R!” I was like, “Oh I didn’t recognize you with the hat on.” So he took off the hat and I just remember thinking that I knew he was cute but he was on a whole other level. We’re having the session and we just start texting each other back and forth throughout.

We knew each other professionally but not personally, so it was sort of weird at first. But somehow we had a conversation and agreed when we got back to New York we’d go on a date. We went on that date on November 3rd. We’ve been inseparable ever since and that was seven and a half years ago. We remember all of the dates.

ESSENCE: What was your favorite wedding moment?

AMERIIE: There were so many of them. I think when my dad and I were walking down the aisle. It was a long aisle; I think 375 feet, so it was very, very long. My dad was kind of chatting to me in the beginning giving me little father-daughter sound bites. The last thing he said was “Are you ready?” I said, “I’m ready, daddy!” When I got to the end of the aisle he took Lenny’s hand and he took my hand and he joined them together.

ESSENCE: What did you and Lenny say to each other in your vows?

AMERIIE: We did traditional vows. The thing with Lenny and I is that we write each other all the time -- things like personal emails and love letters -- we’ve always done that. The things that people would probably put in their vows we put into our emails, love letters, and cards to each other so we do a lot of those things. For the wedding we were thinking traditional because it’s something that’s been said for hundred and hundreds of years and I love history and old things.

ESSENCE: How does Lenny make you feel special?

AMERIIE: He’s just a gentleman. He does the big things like surprises and we’ll go here and we’ll go there, but it’s the little things too. The little things defy everything to me. That’s the stuff that’s going to happen most often. It could be as simple as him opening my car door or when we’re at a restaurant he always pulls the chair out for me and he stands up when I have to leave the table and when I come back. He’s just so romantic!

I love the way he treats my family. He treats my sister just as well as he treats me and that’s so important to me. She actually mentioned that in her speech. She was my maid of honor.

ESSENCE: What’s up next for you?

AMERIIE: Right now I’m continuing the recording process for the album. The album is called Cymatika, which is named after cymatics, the study of visual sound.

The last album was very hip-hop soul, R&B, and rock, but this time I fused electronica and new wave, and a lot of classic song structure. I usually sing about love but for this album I really wanted to talk about the human experience. Not in the romantic sense but just being who you really are and not running from yourself.

We’re thinking we’re going to put it out probably like spring of next year. It’s not finished yet. It’s all about the creative process. For me it’s more about creating it, getting it off my chest, and then putting it out into the universe. Then I move on to the next thing. When I’m releasing it, I’m releasing it, and I’m on to creating something else. Half the time by the time we deliver the album and it’s already mixed and mastered I’m on to the next sound.

http://www.essence.com/20...z1RYuhfhOn" target="_blank">Link

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July 8, 2011

It’s been an exciting year for Grammy-nominated recording artist Ameriie. On June 25th she married her dream guy, former Columbia Records executive Lenny Nicholson, on a cliff in a beautiful island ceremony, and now she’s back in the studio creating a new album for her fans.

We caught up with the new Mrs. Nicholson when she returned from her luxe honeymoon in Anguilla, and she was all smiles over her new life as a wife. To our surprise, the famously private songstress really opened up for the first time ever about her love and connection with Lenny.

Check out what the gushing bride had to say about why she loves Lenny, her top wedding moments, and why she can’t wait to share her new album.

ESSENCE: How did you and Lenny fall in love?

AMERIIE: They asked me whom I wanted to A&R my album. I asked for Lenny Nicholson because he’s the only one I knew I could really trust around my stuff. At the time I just knew I liked what he did. I knew his name but I didn’t completely know how much he’d already helped my career. It was cool. We never really spoke that much. Sparks hadn’t flown yet. I knew he was cute and I know now he thought I was cute because he remembers to this day what I had on.

I was working on my second album. The whole vibe of this album was that I’m free and I’m single and I’m not checking for anybody. So I’m there and I feel a tap on my shoulder. I look up and it’s him. I didn’t totally recognize him because he had a hat on. So I’m like, “Who are you?” He’s like, “I’m your A&R!” I was like, “Oh I didn’t recognize you with the hat on.” So he took off the hat and I just remember thinking that I knew he was cute but he was on a whole other level. We’re having the session and we just start texting each other back and forth throughout.

We knew each other professionally but not personally, so it was sort of weird at first. But somehow we had a conversation and agreed when we got back to New York we’d go on a date. We went on that date on November 3rd. We’ve been inseparable ever since and that was seven and a half years ago. We remember all of the dates.

ESSENCE: What was your favorite wedding moment?

AMERIIE: There were so many of them. I think when my dad and I were walking down the aisle. It was a long aisle; I think 375 feet, so it was very, very long. My dad was kind of chatting to me in the beginning giving me little father-daughter sound bites. The last thing he said was “Are you ready?” I said, “I’m ready, daddy!” When I got to the end of the aisle he took Lenny’s hand and he took my hand and he joined them together.

ESSENCE: What did you and Lenny say to each other in your vows?

AMERIIE: We did traditional vows. The thing with Lenny and I is that we write each other all the time -- things like personal emails and love letters -- we’ve always done that. The things that people would probably put in their vows we put into our emails, love letters, and cards to each other so we do a lot of those things. For the wedding we were thinking traditional because it’s something that’s been said for hundred and hundreds of years and I love history and old things.

ESSENCE: How does Lenny make you feel special?

AMERIIE: He’s just a gentleman. He does the big things like surprises and we’ll go here and we’ll go there, but it’s the little things too. The little things defy everything to me. That’s the stuff that’s going to happen most often. It could be as simple as him opening my car door or when we’re at a restaurant he always pulls the chair out for me and he stands up when I have to leave the table and when I come back. He’s just so romantic!

I love the way he treats my family. He treats my sister just as well as he treats me and that’s so important to me. She actually mentioned that in her speech. She was my maid of honor.

ESSENCE: What’s up next for you?

AMERIIE: Right now I’m continuing the recording process for the album. The album is called Cymatika, which is named after cymatics, the study of visual sound.

The last album was very hip-hop soul, R&B, and rock, but this time I fused electronica and new wave, and a lot of classic song structure. I usually sing about love but for this album I really wanted to talk about the human experience. Not in the romantic sense but just being who you really are and not running from yourself.

We’re thinking we’re going to put it out probably like spring of next year. It’s not finished yet. It’s all about the creative process. For me it’s more about creating it, getting it off my chest, and then putting it out into the universe. Then I move on to the next thing. When I’m releasing it, I’m releasing it, and I’m on to creating something else. Half the time by the time we deliver the album and it’s already mixed and mastered I’m on to the next sound.

http://www.essence.com/20...z1RYuhfhOn" target="_blank">Link

As long as she avoids Lil Wayne or any rapper, I'm buying her album.

Timmy84 said:

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July 8, 2011

It’s been an exciting year for Grammy-nominated recording artist Ameriie. On June 25th she married her dream guy, former Columbia Records executive Lenny Nicholson, on a cliff in a beautiful island ceremony, and now she’s back in the studio creating a new album for her fans.

We caught up with the new Mrs. Nicholson when she returned from her luxe honeymoon in Anguilla, and she was all smiles over her new life as a wife. To our surprise, the famously private songstress really opened up for the first time ever about her love and connection with Lenny.

Check out what the gushing bride had to say about why she loves Lenny, her top wedding moments, and why she can’t wait to share her new album.

ESSENCE: How did you and Lenny fall in love?

AMERIIE: They asked me whom I wanted to A&R my album. I asked for Lenny Nicholson because he’s the only one I knew I could really trust around my stuff. At the time I just knew I liked what he did. I knew his name but I didn’t completely know how much he’d already helped my career. It was cool. We never really spoke that much. Sparks hadn’t flown yet. I knew he was cute and I know now he thought I was cute because he remembers to this day what I had on.

I was working on my second album. The whole vibe of this album was that I’m free and I’m single and I’m not checking for anybody. So I’m there and I feel a tap on my shoulder. I look up and it’s him. I didn’t totally recognize him because he had a hat on. So I’m like, “Who are you?” He’s like, “I’m your A&R!” I was like, “Oh I didn’t recognize you with the hat on.” So he took off the hat and I just remember thinking that I knew he was cute but he was on a whole other level. We’re having the session and we just start texting each other back and forth throughout.

We knew each other professionally but not personally, so it was sort of weird at first. But somehow we had a conversation and agreed when we got back to New York we’d go on a date. We went on that date on November 3rd. We’ve been inseparable ever since and that was seven and a half years ago. We remember all of the dates.

ESSENCE: What was your favorite wedding moment?

AMERIIE: There were so many of them. I think when my dad and I were walking down the aisle. It was a long aisle; I think 375 feet, so it was very, very long. My dad was kind of chatting to me in the beginning giving me little father-daughter sound bites. The last thing he said was “Are you ready?” I said, “I’m ready, daddy!” When I got to the end of the aisle he took Lenny’s hand and he took my hand and he joined them together.

ESSENCE: What did you and Lenny say to each other in your vows?

AMERIIE: We did traditional vows. The thing with Lenny and I is that we write each other all the time -- things like personal emails and love letters -- we’ve always done that. The things that people would probably put in their vows we put into our emails, love letters, and cards to each other so we do a lot of those things. For the wedding we were thinking traditional because it’s something that’s been said for hundred and hundreds of years and I love history and old things.

ESSENCE: How does Lenny make you feel special?

AMERIIE: He’s just a gentleman. He does the big things like surprises and we’ll go here and we’ll go there, but it’s the little things too. The little things defy everything to me. That’s the stuff that’s going to happen most often. It could be as simple as him opening my car door or when we’re at a restaurant he always pulls the chair out for me and he stands up when I have to leave the table and when I come back. He’s just so romantic!

I love the way he treats my family. He treats my sister just as well as he treats me and that’s so important to me. She actually mentioned that in her speech. She was my maid of honor.

ESSENCE: What’s up next for you?

AMERIIE: Right now I’m continuing the recording process for the album. The album is called Cymatika, which is named after cymatics, the study of visual sound.

The last album was very hip-hop soul, R&B, and rock, but this time I fused electronica and new wave, and a lot of classic song structure. I usually sing about love but for this album I really wanted to talk about the human experience. Not in the romantic sense but just being who you really are and not running from yourself.

We’re thinking we’re going to put it out probably like spring of next year. It’s not finished yet. It’s all about the creative process. For me it’s more about creating it, getting it off my chest, and then putting it out into the universe. Then I move on to the next thing. When I’m releasing it, I’m releasing it, and I’m on to creating something else. Half the time by the time we deliver the album and it’s already mixed and mastered I’m on to the next sound.

http://www.essence.com/20...z1RYuhfhOn" target="_blank">Link

As long as she avoids Lil Wayne or any rapper, I'm buying her album.

I would totally love to see her shut the door on that WORLD. It will depend label wise though because they in the end "want a single" and that remix with Lil Wayne was 100% the idea of DefJam to get the record notice. But Amerie is 30 years old, she doesnt need the "kids" digging her shit, that day is LONG GONE, in the words of George Carlin "Fuck the Kids", i would love to hear some rock oriented stuff on the order of what she did with the track "Higher".

countdown till lastdecember post on this thread

oops while i was posting this message, he already made a post.

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Amerie

What's an Ameriiiiiiie?

RKJCNE said:

What's an Ameriiiiiiie?

The artist formerly know as Amerie, singer of the hits "Why Don't We Fall in Love" and "One Thing".

Timmy84 said:

RKJCNE said:

What's an Ameriiiiiiie?

The artist formerly know as Amerie, singer of the hits "Why Don't We Fall in Love" and "One Thing".

When will she get a symbol?

RKJCNE said:

Timmy84 said:

The artist formerly know as Amerie, singer of the hits "Why Don't We Fall in Love" and "One Thing".

When will she get a symbol?

She could use the profile of her body.

RKJCNE said:

Timmy84 said:

The artist formerly know as Amerie, singer of the hits "Why Don't We Fall in Love" and "One Thing".

When will she get a symbol?

Her name change is actually her name in retrospect where as PRINCE to a symbol was a contract/marketing thing "masked" behind a "spiritual" change.

^ I wonder if she was originally born Ameriie with two i's.

Timmy84 said:

^ I wonder if she was originally born Ameriie with two i's.

she basically just took the I out of her middle names and inserted it.

Amerie Mi Marie Rogers is the name on her birth certificate.

lastdecember said:

Timmy84 said:

^ I wonder if she was originally born Ameriie with two i's.

she basically just took the I out of her middle names and inserted it.

Amerie Mi Marie Rogers is the name on her birth certificate.

I see.

lastdecember said:

Timmy84 said:

^ I wonder if she was originally born Ameriie with two i's.

she basically just took the I out of her middle names and inserted it.

Amerie Mi Marie Rogers is the name on her birth certificate.

And the point of changing her name was...