Roz

b. c.1972, Bronx, NY, USA. After a youngsters spent performing in college and chapel choirs, and a program in traditional music at New York’s Mannes University, Roz broke through in 1994 using what she referred to as “sassy hop”. She experienced originally arrive to prominence in hiphop circles when D-Nice asked her to sing on “SPEAK TO Me”, from his To The Save album. Following this D-Nice decided to make his rapping abilities designed for Roz’s debut solitary, “A Yo Ah’lte (Hey Yo Alright)”. This monitor, originally predicated on another track, “JUST WHAT EXACTLY”, was made in the studio room with maker Carl Bourelly, after he asked the vocalist to expose some chants – the producing “Aaa-Yo’s” being therefore distinctive they offered the monitor its name. Roz subsequently published all of those other track around that hookline. It had been Bourelly who 1st discovered the youthful singer at an area nightclub, before starting her around the session-singing marketplace. She experienced already documented as support vocalist for Dannii Minogue, the Hi-Five and Melissa Morgan, and toured with Monie Like, before she embarked on her behalf solo career.