A 15 YEAR OLD CURIOUS TEENAGER, WONDERING WHAT IT WOUL BE LIKE TO FOLLOW IN MY FATHERS FOOT-STEPS AND BECOME A QUARTET SINGER. AFTER SITTING THROUGH HOURS OF REHEARSALS EVERY SATURDAY NIGHT, WATCHING AND LISTENING TO THE HARMONIOUS SOUNDS OF MY FATHERS GROUP,"THE SPIRITUAL FIVE" AT 15 I COULDN'T TAKE NO MORE, IT WAS TIME TO SATISFY MY CURIOSITY. I DID JUST THAT, I WENT TO MY SISTER WHO NOW SINGS BACKGROUND FOR ME, "SANDRA PRYOR", AND SAID LET'S START A GOSPEL GROUP, SHE SAID, YOU AIN'T SAID NOTTIN BUT A WORD. WE RECRUITED 4 MORE PEOPLE AND INITIALLY CALLED OURSELF A QUARTET GROUP THOUGH WE HAD 1 EXTRA. OUT OF THAT 5, "THE HARMONETTES" OF PINE BLUFF ARK. WAS BORN. THE HARMONETTES WENT ON TO RECORD THEIR FIRST ALBUM TITELED "STOP BY HERE". WE WENT ON FOR YEARS, DURING THOSE YEARS, I MARRIED INTO THE LEGENDARY "DENISE LaSALLES" FAMILY. THOUGH I WAS IN THE FAMILY NOW, I KEPT MY GOSPEL CAREER GOING. THE HARMONETTES FELT IT WAS TIME TO TAKE OUR CAREER TO ANOTHER LEVEL, SO WE CHANGED OUR NAME TO "DIRECTION". WE WENT ON TO RECORD OUR SECOND ALBUM TITELED "GOD DON'T MAKE MISTAKES". AFTER THE RECORDING, "DIRECTION" PARTED WAYS, LEAVING MY HUSBAND AT THAT TIME & ME , TO START ALL OVER. WE FORMED ANOTHER COUPLE OF GROUPS UNDER THAT SAME NAME, WHEN WE FELT WE FOUND THE RIGHT GROUP, WE FELT IT WAS TIME FOR THE NEXT LEVEL, SO WE CHANGED THE NAME AGAIN TO "SERENITY", AND OF COURSE WENT ON TO RECORD OUR THIRD ALBUM TITELED "EMBRACE THE VISION". EACH ALBUM WAS GREAT AND GOT BETTER EACH TIME, BUT AFTER 28 YEARS IN THE GOSPEL INDUSTRY, BEING DISAPPOINTED ONCE AGAIN BECAUSE "SERENITY" PARTED WAYS, I KNEW I WANTED TO MAKE IT IN THE MUSIC BUSINESS, BEING OFFERED A POSITION SINGING BACKGROUND FOR THE "LEGENDARY DENISE LaSALLE", THAT WAS ALL THE BREAK I NEEDED, OF COURSE I TOOK THE POSITION AND RAN, AND HAVE BEEN RUNNING SINCE 1996 AND IS STILL RUNNING AS IF IT IS MY FIRST GIG EACH AND EVERYTIME WE GO OUT. IN 2006 A WONDERFUL PERSON CAME ON THE SCENE AS "LaSALLES ROAD MANAGER, "MRS. ANNA CODAY" THE WIFE OF THE LATE GREAT LEGENDARY "BILL CODAY"(GET YO LIE STRAIGHT). ANNA CAME TO ME AND SAID SHE WANTED TO CUT A RECORD ON ME, EXCITED AND GREATFUL AT THE SAME TIME I SAID LET'S DO IT.ANNA COLLABERATED WITH ONE OF HER ARTIST & WRITER FOR THE LABEL "MR. JAMES D. SMITH"(THE PLUMBER MAN) OF FLINT MICHIGAN, JAMES IMMEDIATELY PUT HIS WRITING ABLITIES TO WORK AND CAME UP WITH MY FIRST HIT SONG "BACKDOOR LOVE AFFAIR", THE SONG MADE NOISE ALL OVER, AT THAT POINT BILL & ANNA DECIDED IT WAS TIME TO SIGN ME TO THEIR RECORD LABEL "B&J RECORDS MEMPHIS TN". SINCE BACKDOOR LOVE AFFAIR I'VE GONE ON TO DO A SOLO CAREER AS WELL AS SINGING BACK-UP FOR "DENISE LASALLE". I'VE HAD THE PREVILEGE TO SHARE STAGES WITH SUCH GREAT "ARTIST" AS "BOBBY RUSH, SIR CHARLES JONES, WILLIE CLAYTON, MARVIN SEASE, MEL WAITERS, SHIRLEY BROWN, JAY BLACKFOOT, TK SOUL, VICK ALLEN, THE MANHATTANS, R&B SINGER FREDDIE JACKSON, TAMIA, CARL THOMAS, AND MANY MANY MORE. JUST TO NAME A FEW. B&J RECORDS IS CONTINUING ON WITH MY CAREER, GRACIOUSLY GIVING ME ENOUGH TIME TO GIVE THEM A SECOND ALBUM, WE DECIDED TO COLLABERATE WITH ANOTHER GREAT ARTIST AND SONG WRITER, "MR. OMAR CUNNINGHAM" LOW AND BEHOLD , CAME UP WITH AN EVEN BIGGER HIT SONG TITLED "MAN ENOUGH" THAT JUST HAPPEN TO BE MY NEW SINGLE. PLEASE "LOOK FOR THE ALBUM IN STORES SOON" "ANNA CODAY" NOW CEO OF B&J RECORDS HAS BEEN GETTING HER COLLABERATIONS ON!!! THANKS TO THE BEST RECORD COMPANY IN MY WORLD. B&J RECORDS YOU'RE THE BEST.
