Tamia Inland northwest-Hill (born May 9, 1976 in Windsor, Ontario), known simply when Tamia, occurs as Canadian R&B singer who first debuted in 1995 as a featured vocalist on Quincy Jones' single, "You Put A Move On My Heart" which was nominated for a Grammy. A song was late featured in her hanker awaited self coroneted debut album. 4 more singles were freed, a Jermaine Dupri produced only "Imagination", a original top X R&B single produced by Tim & Bob "So Into You", radio play only single "Falling For You", which samples Cheryl Lynn's "Got To Be Real" and last but not least "Still Loving You" produced by Darryl Simmons.

Nu Day

Since so, she has freed 2 more albums, a best known of which was her second-year album, 2000's A Nu Day. It featured a megahit "Stranger In My House,", which introduced Tamithe to a fresh audience thanks to its vastly popular dance remix, which received far more radio airplay inside Us than a original, nu soul-flavored album version.

Past Success

Tamia is too known for her 1996 pop and R&B hit, "Missing You", from the Set It Off soundtrack. Along sustaining Tamia, Brandy, Gladys Knight, and Chaka Khan performed the song, which peaked in the top Xxx in Billboard's Hot 100 chart.

Last, a chorus from either Tamia's "So Into You" was sampled and used within Fabolous' 2003 hit, "Into You". Sustaining a profits of that lone & Tamia's appearance around its music video, Tamia's mainstream popuarity grew again.

Recent Projects

Within 2003, Tamia freed her third album, Supplementary, which has spawned a singles "Officially Missing You" & "Questions". Therefore far, it develop two performed when with success in urban radio as any of her former singles. Neither, nevertheless, has crossed assibilate to mainstream radio. Nonetheless, Tamia's popularity has managed to maintain itself despite her comparatively lackluster performance in Western mainstream radio, and so it could just exist as the matter of period prior to Tamithe becomes a personal title.

Personal Life

Tamia is married to the Orlando Magic's Grant Hill. Them have a girl known as Myla Grace.

Early Life

Innate, Tamia Reneé Inland northwest, Tamia began singing at church at a age of Half a dozen. By X, she signed higher for vocal lessons, so the immature lyric soprano. She gained lay own experience singing popular songs prefer Whitney's You Give Good Love. Across pubescence, her voice matured into the spinto mezzo-treble, the rangy trio octaves, capable of two dark alto depths & angelical soprano highs. She exclusively aspired to exist as the vocal coach, after the risk hike brought her to L.The. With merely an nighttime bag, she caught Brenda Richie & Quincy Jones' attention at the 1994 awards indicate, in which Jones' was asked to present her sustaining an award. A year late, she, so Nineteen, was in the studio recording, "You Put A Move On My Heart" for Jones' ''Q's Jook Joint, a as punishment season a individual hit a stock and index charts within 1996. Late that season, Tamia participated in the Missing We, which showcased recently chanteuses Brandy, along with veterans Chaka Khan and Gladys Knight. She experienced a uncommon distinction of existence nominated for deuce Grammys while forgoing getting an album of her have retired.

Keeping bases around Detroit (through a flow of any stream from either Windsor), she was introduced to previous Detroit Pistons star Grant Hill by Motor City songstress Anita Baker. Them married in July 2 dozen, 1999.

Fabolous Collaboration

Within 2004, rapper Fabolous sample her hit And so Into We from either her eponymic debut. She appears in a streaming videos, & a bit of of the streaming videos stills became the art for her album, Supplementary. Within 2005, Tamia & her hubby, Grant Hill announced on Additional that she has Multiple Sclerosis, although in an locate by owning Smooth Magazine, she reported that the disease is apparently arrested. Capitol hill presently sleep in Florida, where Grant plays for the Orlando Magic in the NBA.

Discography
Albums
Tamia (1998) U.s.: #67 JAP:(Gold) The Nu Day (2000) The states: #46 (Gold) Extra'' (2004) United states of america: #17

Singles
Solo
"Imagination" by owning Jermaine Dupri (1998) R&B: #12 US: #37 "So Into You" (1999) R&B: #7 US: #30 "Falling For You (1999) radio play only "Caring Smart shoppers However" (1999) R&B: #78 "Might't Go for That" (2000) R&B: #23 Dance: #12 US: #84 "Alien in the Home" (2001) R&B: #3 Dance: #1 US: #10 "Tell Maine World health organization" (2001) R&B: #63 Dance: #2 "Officially Missing We" (2003) R&B: #31 Dance: #4 US: #83 "Questions" (2004) R&B: #40 "However" (2004) R&B: #83 Dance: #34

Collaborations
with Quincy Jones: "You Put the Pass on Our Heart" (1994) R&B: #16 US: #98 with Babyface: "Slow Jams" (1995) R&B: #19 US: #68 with Chaka Khan, Gladys Knight, and Brandy: "Missing You" (1996) R&B: #10 US: #25 with Eric Benet: "Spend My Life By having Your family" (1999) R&B: #1 US: #21 with Fabolous: "Into You" (2004) R&B: #1 US: #4 UK: #18