Brooke Valentine
b. Houston, Texas, USA. This R&B vocalist's solo career was launched in 2005 with the provocative "Girlfight", a minor hit that earned more notoriety for its subject matter than any intrinsic artistic value. Valentine grew up singing in the church choir but earned her mother's disapproval when, while still at high school, she was enlisted by Houston-based producer Deja to join his girl group, Best Kept Secret. The group did the rounds of the international club circuit but by the start of the new millennium had failed to make the expected breakthrough. When Deja disbanded Best Kept Secret he continued to work with Valentine, who he had already begun to encourage as a writer. The producer enjoyed more success with his new prot‚g‚e than any of his previous signings, securing Valentine a recording contract with the Virgin Records subsidiary Subliminal Entertainment. The duo recorded Valentine's debut album with the help of a number of leading producers, including Jermaine Dupri and Soul Diggas. With in-demand crunk king Lil Jon and Big Boi of Outkast handling production and guest vocals respectively, "Girlfight" raised a few eyebrows with its lurid depiction of female violence but was not as successful as might have been expected, scraping into the R&B Top 30 and the lower regions of the Hot 100 in January 2005. Chain Letter, which followed two months later, was more successful in reaching the R&B Top 5 and pop Top 20.

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Top Tracks
  • Girlfight
  • Cover Girl
  • Dying From a Broken Heart
  • Boogie Oogie Oogie
  • I Want You Dead
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