american r b singer horace brown made his mark on the charts in the mid-90s alongside
many other popular male crooners such as keith sweat black street and genuine by the turn of the
new millennium though his career had cooled off considerably and people were left wondering if he
would ever recapture his previous level of success again charlotte north carolina native horace brown
jr grew up the son of a baptist minister so naturally singing in the church was a weekly
event horus though never believed he would one day have a career as a singer his big childhood dream
was to be a professional basketball player but a knee injury immediately squashed those plans
nonetheless as the old saying goes when one door closes another one opens so when his hoop dreams
ended that just freed up more time for horus to work on music in addition to singing horus
also played a couple of instruments namely trombone and baritone saxophone in his high
school marching band other than the gospel music he heard in church horus was also encouraged by
his older brother to explore different styles and genres of music from the gap band to genesis bobby
caldwell and stevie wonder horus admits that he didn't even really think he could sing until
other people started commenting on how good of a voice he had it was then that he started wrapping
his head around the idea of taking the craft more seriously things solidified after he recorded his
first demo in new york city it was such a profound experience for horus that he actually shed tears
things would really take off for him after a future major player in the industry
heard one of his demos it was devante's swing of r b quartet jodeci now jodeci wasn't even jodeci at
the time but devonte liked what he heard and asked horace if he could swing by the studio one day
he came through with casey jojo and mr dalvin in tow and listen to some more of what horus had to
offer the next thing horace knew he was getting flute out to la to take advantage of some amazing
opportunities to sing background for the likes of christopher williams as well as writing and
producing for duo terry and monica not long after horus would score his own deal with uptown records
after head andre harrell threw another hookup courtesy of devonte saw him in a recording session
right away horace got to work recording his debut album his next move though would ruffle a lot of
feathers he caused some major controversy when his single taste your love was released in 1994.
it was an ode so to speak to an intimate act of the oral persuasion and was subsequently banned in
certain parts of the south specifically the bible belt region not surprisingly it failed to perform
well on the charts another single was released as a promo but turned out to be a waste of time
uptown upped and shelled horace's album years later horus did allude to the fact that the
reason may have been a case of uptown's other artists like jodeci and mary j blige blowing up
so quickly upon their release that resulted in the label not being interested in pushing his project
many artists end up fading into the background after their albums failed to launch and many
more still after the person who believed in them from the beginning and they signed on with ends
up leaving the label thankfully this wouldn't be the case for horus when andre harrell left
uptown for motown he brought horus with him the label went into overdrive promoting him
by first releasing what would go on to be his biggest hit one for the money in 1996.
it was followed up with things we do for love and then finally his self-titled debut album the album
featured appearances by several r b and hip-hop artists like sean puffy combs foxy brown and jay-z
a little-known fact about horus and puffy's connection is that before things took off for
horus at motown the music mogul made horus an offer to join the family over at bad boy
the official final single release from the album was how can we stop
featuring faith evans several more songs did drop afterwards but are only considered to
be promotional singles at the start of the new decade horus released the single shake
it up in 2000 and followed that up with this is the one with styles p in 2001 even though
he's only released one album horus continues to write and produce alongside many other artists
in the industry such as donnell jones and silk over the last several years he's made
germany his main base while enjoying a successful international touring career
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