their mutual love and talent for singing brought them together in the right place and
at the right time they honed their skills and slowly began to get the attention of
some major players in the industry however after many years of working so well together
cracks began to appear that would ultimately lead to an unfortunate result
let's find out whatever happened to american 90s r b duo changing faces
charisse rose from south bronx and cassandra lucas from east harlem first met while attending
laguardia high school of music and art and performing arts in new york city
after graduation they attended different colleges
but kept their musical aspirations burning by doing a variety of gigs and auditions
they would reconnect when they both became supporting vocalists while on tour for r b pop
artist sybil after that experience they decided to create their own group since there were only two
of them it was a challenge trying to get ahead in an industry that was already saturated with groups
with multiple members and people didn't want to try something different they both retreated back
to new york and got regular nine to five day jobs in manhattan while continuing to record
demos at night they were discovered by a local record producer named kenny smooth he brought
them to the man who would go on to become the chairman and ceo of atlantic records craig coleman
after showing up late which resulted in an impromptu audition on a street corner
they were signed to big beat records a subsidiary of atlantic initially after going through hundreds
of names they settled on face to face however just days before they were about to drop their first
single they found out that another group already had the name so everyone at the label wrote their
suggestions down and they were placed in a hat the first name that the ladies picked out would be the
winner their debut single called stroke you up dropped in july 1994 peaking at the number three
position on the billboard hot 100 chart the song would become their first platinum hit and make
the album reach gold status with the ir double a just a couple of months later they blew up so big
and so fast that prince himself called the office of their label to find out who changing faces was
their self-titled debut album was released the following month and produced two other singles
fooling around and keep it right there the latter was written and produced by devonta swing of r b
group jodeci even though the duo wrote the majority of their songs they were asked by
the label at the start of their journey which producers they were interested in working with
their first two singles were both written and produced by the one at the top of their
list american r b singer songwriter and producer robert sylvester kelly professionally known
as r kelly it's no small feat that he was still able to find time to produce on this level
while also tending to his other full-time job of cultivating relationships with teenage girls
when you say teenage how are we talking
also around this time the duo would make a cameo with numerous other r b and hip-hop artists
in rapper the notorious big's music video for his smash hit one more chance
three years later their follow-up album titled all day all night
was released the first single called get out another r kelly penned and produced effort
shot to number eight on the hot 100 and number one on the r b chart
it became their biggest hit to date their second platinum single
and just like their debut this album would also achieve gold status
many of the duo's songs would also appear on movie soundtracks such as the remix version of stroke
you up for the 1994 action comedy film a low down dirty shame all of my days off their second album
for the live action animated sports comedy space jam and a song called same tempo for the dark
comedy drama the players club three years would pass before their third album was released titled
visit me the album's first single called that other woman would blaze up the dance club songs
charred it also included the song come over that fans of the r b singer aaliyah will recognize and
attribute to being her song the song was recorded by both aaliyah and changing faces but the duo
actually purchased it after baby girl's untimely passing the song was dug out of the archives and
released considering the circumstances changing faces had no problem with that
the album didn't put up anywhere near the same numbers as their previous two efforts in a 2017
interview with rnb junkieofficial.com cassandra spoke about the fact that the two women creatively
were moving in different directions in addition they were also battling with the record label
there were a lot of promises being made that the record label didn't keep on their end
the label also had other popular up-and-coming artists on their roster
and the duo felt that they got lost in the shuffle
changing faces wasn't heard from again for nearly 10 years
during that time the duo maintains that they never officially split up
they each just focused on other business ventures having children and living life
in 2009 a new song was leaked online called crazy love and rumored to be included on
their upcoming album however these rumors were never confirmed by either group member
two years later cassandra announced that she and charisse were working on new material and that
a new changing faces album would be released in 2012. that wouldn't happen but a new single did
drop in the spring of 2013 on itunes called hate love then things took a turn for the
worse after shooting the music video for the song cherise spoke to the marty a johnson show in 2020
and explained what went down the song wasn't doing well and she felt it was best to just cut their
losses and move on to the next project cassandra didn't agree at that point cherise decided to send
her a text message asking cassandra to let her know that when she was ready to work together as a
team to give her a call legend has it that cherise is still waiting for that call cassandra decided
to strike out on her own and release her debut solo track called damn in september 2013. she was
also working on a solo album and formed her own record label with her husband and business partner
she would go on to release a couple of other non-album singles over the next few years with
the intention of releasing a full album however other things she was involved with at the time
made it difficult to complete cassandra's debut album titled long way home the intro would finally
be released in april 2019. the first single called name on it would become a hit on the urban adult
contemporary chart she's active on social media and can be found on instagram facebook and twitter
charisse has continued performing and for the last several years she's been seen touring the u.s and
abroad with temporary new changing faces member reefy scott charisse doesn't have social media
and she has no interest in getting any since she stays booked without it neither cassandra
nor cherise have any plans to reunite and both women appear to be enjoying their individual paths
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