Tamia

Tamia is the debut studio album by Canadian recording artist Tamia. It was released on April 14, 1998, on Quincy Jones's Qwest Records, while distribution was handled through Warner Bros. Recorded after the release of her Grammy Award-nominated collaborations with Jones and the single "Missing You", her contribution to the soundtrack of the 1996 motion picture Set It Off, Tamia worked with a plethora of producers on her debut, including Jermaine Dupri, Tim & Bob, Mario Winans, J-Dub, Keith Crouch, and Christopher "Tricky" Stewart, many of which would become frequent producers on subsequent projects. The album received generally favorable reviews, with critics praising Tamia's vocal abilities and its ballads and midtempo R&B tracks, while noting some inconsistency in the material. Commercially, it achieved moderate success, peaking at number 67 on the US Billboard 200, number 18 on the US Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums and number 11 on the Canadian R&B Albums, while reaching number 25 in Japan and receiving a gold certification there. By 2003, Tamia had sold 416,000 copies in the United States and was later certified double platinum by the Recording Industry of South Africa. From Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamia_(...) under Creative Commons Attribution CC-BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...)