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Rec with Iphone4s Musiq Soulchild or Musiq born Taalib Johnson on September 16 1977 is an American R B soul singer-songwriter whose style blends contemporary R B soul funk alternative blues jazz some gospel influences and hip hop Musiq was born in Philadelphia Pennsylvania and is the oldest of nine children At an early age Musiq left home and dropped out of school at the age of 17 It was during that time Musiq started to build a reputation for being musically gifted beat boxing for MC's free styling on the open mic circuit scatting at a jazz club or just performing a cappella in the streets of Philadelphia which is where he got the name Musiq and later added Soulchild which is intended to respect and represent the legacy and traditions of past soul artists He cites as his inspiration such icons as Stevie Wonder James Brown Patti LaBelle Billie Holiday Sly the Family Stone and Ray Charles Musiq Soulchild has had 2 platinum albums 2 gold albums and 7 hit singles He has received awards from Billboard BET ASCAP BMI and Soul Train He has also earned award nominations from MTV the American Music Awards the NAACP and 11 Grammy nominations including 3 for his 2007 album Luvanmusiq Musiq Soulchild released his debut album Aijuswanaseing in 2000 Its lead single was Just Friends Sunny Musiq's second single Love spent 22 weeks on the Billboard Hot 100 charts Musiq's second album 2002's Juslisen debuted at number 1 on the Billboard 200 and went platinum The singles were Halfcrazy and Dontchange In 2003 Musiq released his third album Soulstar It included the singles Forthenight and Whoknows Musiq took a four-year break and changed his management to Solqi Management as well as his record label from Def Soul to Atlantic Records In March 2007 Musiq's released his fourth album Luvanmusiq Its singles were B U D D Y Teachme and Makeyouhappy His fifth album OnMyRadio was released on December 2 2008 The lead single Radio was a complete contrast to the usual smooth soul and R B Musiq fans were accustomed to The following singles were the duet IfULeave featuring Mary J Blige and the ballad SoBeautiful SoBeautiful marked the first collaboration between Musiq and the producer JR Hutson after Hutson had spent about eight months trying to get Musiq to come by his studio According to Hutson the two plan to work together again In May 2010 he changed management to Victor Grieg His latest album Musiqinthemajiq was released on May 3 2011 available on CDs and also as a digital download The first single is Anything featuring Swizz Beatz He has received awards from Billboard BET the American Society of Composers Authors and Publishers BMI and Soul Train Musiq has also been nominated for awards by MTV The American Music Awards the NAACP and has had 11 Grammy nominations

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