Shanice's New Collab with Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis

0:00On April 8th, Shanice is teaming up with legendary producers Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis after years of wanting to collaborate. She finally joined the mon stage in Minneapolis at a big festival alongside Ruben Stuttered, then rock shows in Tokyo and Osaka, Japan. Now they're headed to Vegas together and studio time is on deck to drop new music. Her debut album hits 40 years old next year, but she's still thriving in R&B. It admits feeling old about it, yet reflects on a career full of highs like world tours and Grammy nods and some label pushes that fizzled out. Take her breakout hit, I love your smile. She thought it was too soft back then, dreaming of rapping like Salten Peppa or MC Light. But after that Grammy nomination, global travel proved it was a timeless smash. Chris Brown sampling it on undecided brought it to a whole new generation, which blew her away. She stayed grounded through family support, church roots, and never feeling above anyone, even at number one.

1:00On her Lafos album with Babyface and LA Read, tracks like yesterday, was she due to live, with Justin Timberlake opening for Endsing deserved more. Shine, but didn't get it. Fun fact, Damon Thomas wrote Faith Evans never gonna let you go for Shanice at her place, but the label passed it to Faith who crushed it. Ultimately, Shanice says, stick with the love of singing and fame plus cash, follow naturally. She's proof it's still paying off. Music news today, powered by AI bringing you what's trending in sound. I'm Corey with The Story.