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Joe can be an accomplished vocalist of even and sultry R&B productions with occasional hip-hop beats, and his extensive history in gospel music has allowed him to create his albums in addition to sing in it. A indigenous of Georgia, Joe afterwards shifted to Opelika, Alabama; since he was the boy of two preachers, he spent enough time in cathedral singing, playing electric guitar, and also directing the choir. Inspired in early stages by gospel superstars just like the Winans, Commissioned, and Vanessa Bell Armstrong, Joe grew to like spirit legends Stevie Wonder and Marvin Gaye plus modern stars Bobby Dark brown and Keith Perspiration. Joe graduated from senior high school and continuing to sing and write music while functioning at occasional short-term careers. Finally, he journeyed to NJ, hoping to create connections within the music sector. While working in a gospel record shop and carrying on his music education through an area cathedral, he met manufacturer Vincent Herbert and documented a three-song demonstration tape. He authorized to Polygram and in 1993 released his recording debut, Everything. Joe also made an appearance around the soundtrack to YOU SHOULDN’T BE a Menace to South Central AS LONG AS YOU’RE Taking in Your Juice within the Hood, and relocated to Jive/RCA for his second recording, 1997’s EVERYTHING I Am. The solitary “Don’t Wanna Be considered a Player” hit the very best 40, because of its exposure around the soundtrack of Booty Contact. While EVERYTHING I Am went platinum, Joe remixed a duet by Tina Turner and Barry White colored, “Never within your Dreams”; he also created and published for the debut albums of Ideal and Deja Groove. In 1999, Joe made an appearance on Mariah Carey’s “Say thanks to God I CAME ACROSS You” solitary (from Rainbow) and captured another break from a soundtrack appearance, this time around with “I Wanna Understand” from your Wood. Released mainly because a single within the fall, “I Wanna Understand” languished in the low reaches from the graphs until suddenly getting fireplace in early 2000; the solo reached the R&B Best Five in March, placing the stage for Joe’s next record, the multi-platinum I AM Joe. Despite hardly ever achieving that degree of product sales once again, his five albums through the rest of the 10 years, from Better Times through Signature, had been solid. From a graph perspective, they fared well. Each one reached the very best Ten of Billboard’s R&B graph. Through the early 2010s, Joe continuing release a relatable, mature R&B albums. THE NICE, the Poor, the Sexy (2011) highlighted four productions from Brandon “B.A.M.” Alexander. Fantasia and As well Short made visitor performances on Doubleback: Progression of R&B (2013), which Joe and Derek “DOA” Allen split a lot of the production function, while Stargate added to “Bargain.” Bridges (2014) presented Kelly Rowland on “Like and Sex, Pt. 2.” His 12th appropriate recording, #MyNameIsJoeThomas (2016) was preceded by four disparate singles, including “Content Hour,” offering Gucci Mane, and “Our Anthem,” a retro-soul belter with an Otis Redding interpolation.

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Full Name Joe
Died December 22, 2014, Crawford, Colorado, United States
Height 1.96 m
Nationality American
Spouse Susan Waren, Melanie Hinton
Children Ryan Cartagena, Joey Cartagena, Azariah Cartagena
Awards Soul Train Music Award for Best Independent R&B/Soul Performance, Billboard Music Award for R&B Singles Airplay Track of the Year, Billboard Music Award for Soundtrack Single of the Year
Music Groups Black Men United
Music Songs I Wanna Know, If I Was Your Man, All the Things, The Love Scene, No One Else Comes Close, Stutter, What If a Woman, If You Lose Her, More & More, Don't Wanna Be a Player, Lets Stay Home Tonight, Lean Into It, I'd Rather Have a Love, Miss My Baby, Ghetto Child, All That I Am, Good Girls, Dear Joe, Somebody Gotta Be on Top, Ride Wit U, I'm in Luv, Why Just Be Friends, One Life Stand, Very Special Friend, Lover's Prayer, Till the Rope Gives Way, Another Used to Be, You Dropped Your Dime, Love Don't Make No Sense, Friends Don't Let Friends, Table for Two, Slow Kisses
Albums All That I Am, My Name Is Joe Thomas, My Name Is Joe, Better Days, Doubleback: Evolution of R&B, The Good, the Bad, the Sexy, Bridges, Joe Thomas, New Man, Signature, And Then..., Everything, Greatest Hits, Ain't Nothin' Like Me, Home Is the Essence of Christmas, "Industry Ready" A&r'stape, Make Sure You're Home for Christmas
Nominations Grammy Award for Best R&B Album, Grammy Award for Best Male R&B Vocal Performance, Grammy Award for Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals, BET Award for Best Male R&B/Pop Artist, Grammy Award for Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals, Soul Train Music Award for Best R&B/Soul Single – Male, World Music Award for World’s Best Album, NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Album, Soul Train Music Award for Best R&B/Soul Album – Male, Billboard Music Award for Top Hot 100 Song, Billboard Music Award for Top R&B Song, Billboard Music Award for Hot 100 Airplay Single, Billboard Music Award for Top Male Artist, Billboard Music Award for R&B/Hip-Hop Songs Artist of the Year, Billboard Music Award for R&B/Hip-Hop Male Artist of the Year, Billboard Music Award for Hot 100 Singles Male Artist of the Year

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