she's from borden town new jersey and when she sang this song up there it brought down
the house so when you hear her today i'm sure you're going to be very very impressed with deon
farris who's singing i'm saving all my love for you she is 18 years old dion farris exceptionally
incredibly talented young lady her journey was one full of many trying experiences but she
eventually made it to the top of the music charts unfortunately she wasn't able to keep the momentum
going and decided to walk away from it all when the challenges became just too much to handle
american singer-songwriter producer and actress dion ferris was born in plainfield new jersey
and raised in bordentown she ended up with a famous name after her parents decided to give
their child the moniker of their favorite singer dionne warwick dion was a huge fan of diana ross
as a child she even had a very memorable moment with the superstar after attending
one of her concerts held in manhattan at the age of eight dion's uncle lifted her on stage
and miss ross gave her a kiss dion began taking dance lessons at the age of three she danced
ballet jazz and tap for 10 years then by her early teens her focus had shifted to singing after
graduating from high school in 1987 she entered into a regional pageant competition she won her
first and only pageant as miss hemisphere's adult talent singing whitney houston saving all my love
for you she then continued her education at a community college where she studied photography
also around this time dion joined a band and they began performing on the manhattan club circuit
while looking to sign a record deal after some time it passed and major frustrations set in dion
decided it was time for a move she packed up and relocated to atlanta where her father lived after
a short time she met with music producer jermaine dupree and began writing songs for atlanta-based
acts such as tlc and singing background vocals for the likes of escape and elder barge she signed a
management contract with jermaine's father's company as a solo artist but later became a
member of a girl group they were producing another act that was also signed to the company was the
group dion's boyfriend played drums for hip-hop groove arrested development the group was looking
for a female singer while in the midst of putting their debut album together dionne although she
wasn't interested in being in the group agreed to sing with them and became an unofficial member
she sang on three of the group's songs fishing for religion give a man a fish and their top 10 smash
hit debut single that included a powerful improvised solo by dion called tennessee
after the success of tennessee dion began to receive a lot of media attention and she was again
offered a solo deal the deal though did come with the stipulation that arrested development
founders speech would produce the project not surprisingly considering what was going on
behind the scenes between her in speech dion rejected the offer the
drama between the two began at the very start of arrested development success
since speech and his right-hand man headliner were the only people actually signed to a deal
everyone else played the role of a contract employee earning a fixed salary that would
become a problem for dion the group wanted her to continue to do performances with them
so she felt if that was going to be the case that her original agreement needed to be
renegotiated everything came to a head just a mere six months after the release of tennessee at the
fox theater in atlanta the biggest venue they'd ever performed at and minutes before the group was
about to hit the stage the issues brewing between speech and dionne exploded speech claims that
dion went full reality tv on him even throwing a chair she quit the group right then and there
the following year arrested development walked away two-time winners at the 1993 grammy awards
sadly dion wasn't there to accept the accolades and instead watched it all unfold on tv
dion moved on put together a demo tape and began shopping it around
it eventually ended up at sony music in the hands of their anr executive randy jackson who
would later become well known as a judge on the singing competition reality show american idol
randy signed dion to a deal at columbia records her 1994 debut album wild seed wildflower
featured the single i know which reached number four on the billboard hot 100 and
was nominated for a grammy award for best female pop vocal performance
at this time dion's work would begin being featured on several movie soundtracks
in 1995 her version of billy taylor's i wish i knew how it would feel to be free appeared
on the documentary the promised land she also contributed a version of the stevie wonder classic
for once in my life to the truth about cats and dogs a rendition of heartbreak road for first
wives club and the soulful hit hopeless for love jones even tupac became enamored with dion's music
he referenced her in the 1995 documentary tupac uncensored and uncut the lost prison tapes during
his 23 hours a day in solitary confinement he did a lot of reading and listening to music dion
ferris was one of the artists that he says got him through that tough time dion did record a second
album with colombia however creative differences caused her to part ways with the label before the
project was released she expressed her frustration working with the company in a 2009 interview
with potmatters.com you start feeling like why me am i difficult no record companies are difficult
especially if the music is not able to fit into the guidelines that they're playing in you're in
a bad place unless you're going to get on the r b train rather than actively seek out a new label
dion instead left the music industry altogether by this time she'd become a mother and preferred
to focus on raising her daughter whom she also homeschooled as fate would have it dion and speech
would cross paths again many years after they're falling out at the very same venue where it all
went down at a concert taking place there one night speech noticed that dion was seated directly
in front of him he took the opportunity to write her a note that included a heartfelt apology
and a wish to make amends dion accepted the note and wrote one of her own backs saying very much of
the same in 2007 dion finally released her long delayed follow-up album titled for truth if not
love 2011 was a particularly productive year for dion she released her third album signs of life
as well as a mixtape a live jazz album titled dion get your gun featuring the russell gun quartet
with dion ferris dropped two years later dion's last project a collaboration album with guitarist
charlie hunter titled dion dion was released in 2014 and homage to her namesake legendary
r b singer dion warwick the album featured stripped down versions of such classic numbers
as always something there to remind me and walk on by today dion continues to write
and perform and much of her time is taken up with supporting her daughter who's followed
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