Latest Release
- 12 JAN 2024
- 3 Songs
- Tamia · 1998
- Street Dreams · 2003
- Tamia · 1998
- Tamia · 1998
- More · 2004
- More · 2004
- Beautiful Surprise · 2012
- Between Friends · 2006
- More · 2004
- Beautiful Surprise · 2012
Albums
Music Videos
- 2024
- 2018
- 2018
Artist Playlists
- Seductive R&B with gospel poise, from a virtuosic voice.
Singles & EPs
Appears On
More To Hear
- Happy Valentine’s Day from Tamia and this 1998 classic.
About Tamia
Tamia’s smooth and smoky voice, coupled with a soulful and deeply romantic debut album, carved out a space just for her in the landscape of late ‘90s R&B and beyond. Born in Ontario, Canada in 1975, she got her first taste of the big leagues when the legendary Quincy Jones tapped her to sing on “You Put a Move On My Heart”, the lead single from his 1995 album, Q’s Jook Joint. That song—which nabbed her a Grammy nomination for Best Female R&B Vocal Performance—gave her the momentum to jump-start her solo career with 1998’s Tamia, collecting two more Grammy nominations in the years between. In 2000, she released A Nu Day, establishing a more modern sound with crisper, poppier production and collabs with artists like Missy Elliott and Dallas Austin. But it’s Tamia’s powerful mezzo-soprano—an instrument she honed in the gospel choirs of her youth—that has always been at the forefront of her music, a gift that conjures conviction in ride-or-die odes (“Still”), falling-in-love songs (“So Into You”) and venomous kiss-offs (“Single”). It’s carried her well into 21st-century success, with her 2015 album, Love Life, hitting No. 1 on the Billboard Top R&B Albums chart with the strength of songs like the seductive “Sandwich and a Soda”.
- FROM
- Windsor, Ontario, Canada
- BORN
- 9 May 1975
- GENRE
- R&B/Soul