even though they were from a different world their adopted home embraced these two lyricists
with open arms their new home would also provide the perfect environment for them to make their
musical dreams come true however from the start the loyalty and respect between the two seemed to
be one-sided and eventually rip them apart let's find out what happened to british r b duo floetry
natalie stewart known as the floacist and marsha ambrosius known as the songstress came together to
form the british r b duo the world would come to know as floetry in the late 90s natalie was born
in germany to jamaican parents her family moved around a lot during her formative years but that
jamaican influence remained constant liverpool born marsha had music pumped into her veins on
both sides her father was in a band and her mother was a singer in a girl group she has fond memories
of breaking out her mother's vinyls and listening to the likes of sly in the family stone queen and
duran duran her father was also a basketball coach and marsha naturally developed a love for it as
well she credits her father's encouragement to play the game helping her learn the fundamentals
and discipline of teamwork the girls first met as pre-teens on the basketball courts of london
rivals at first they quickly bonded over their love for music and poetry one day marcia reached
out to natalie who was in a performance poetry group called three plus one about adding some
poetry to a song she was working on natalie obliged and that song called fantasize would
get such a great reception when they performed it they knew they had something special several
years later in 2000 with full support from their families they both moved across the pond to the
u.s first landing in atlanta but later settling in philadelphia planning their routes in philly
was a surprise blessing the duo got an invitation from a promoter to come out and perform at an open
mic event after a friend of marsha's played their demo tape for him after walking into the venue and
seeing wall-to-wall hip-hop and r b icons such as the roots common music soul child erica badu below
and jill scott there they knew they never wanted to leave their debut album titled flowetic was
released in 2002. it was recorded in just seven days and entered the music scene at the height
of the neo-soul sound movement it spawned three singles including their biggest hit today say yes
the track peaked at number 24 on the billboard hot 100 and number eight on the r b chart one year
later they dropped the live studio album flowicism their third and what would be their final album
flowology was released in november 2005. it included the single superstar featuring rapper
common shortly after the hype over the album died down floetry would be no more in a 2017 interview
with new york's power 105.1 radio station morning show the breakfast club marcia spoke about the
contributing factors that led to the split that had to do with issues going on in natalie's
personal life allegedly she was in an abusive relationship things became so volatile that at
one point she didn't want to live anymore however she urged marsha not to say anything to her family
and friends natalie's relationship issues then spilled over into the business when she began
having issues with management and elected to place her boyfriend in that role he demanded a
solo deal on natalie's behalf and said she would walk if she didn't get it the label didn't budge
another issue was natalie's belief that their manager really wanted marsha to go solo
and blackballed her in the u.s when she found herself not able to book gigs natalie's pettiness
also took center stage earlier in their career when she was choosing a manager she selected
someone that had been a mutual friend of the duo however things between marsha and this individual
had become intimate and resulted in a pregnancy and eventual miscarriage natalie was well aware
of all of this and clearly wasn't concerned about the conflict of interest she even went
as far as sharing with marsha that she too had a miscarriage that marsha later found out was a lie
another more obvious and simplistic reason that marcia alluded to in her tv one uncensored episode
in april 2021 was natalie's inability to handle marsha's individual success natalie's side of
the story not surprisingly is quite different in a 2013 interview with uk newspaper the voice
she maintains that things fell apart as a result of management's desire for the duo to cross over
and branch out into more mainstream music her refusal to do so she believes was what pushed
her and marsha apart after floydic hit the streets everyone wanted to know who these two young but
incredibly talented and soulful artists from the uk were marcia started getting a lot of attention
and requests from other artists to sing write and produce material for them fyi the king of pop's
2002 hit butterflies was written by marsha right after the split marcia joined forces with singer
actress amanda seals known at the time as amanda diva to make floetry a twosome again their union
didn't last long and that was probably a good thing since the energy between them was so off
that they almost came to blows natalie released her debut solo album in 2010 titled floetic soul
her second album titled floetry rebirth would follow two years later around this time she would
also marry her longtime boyfriend and producer nolan weeks marsha went on to release a mixtape
several years before her debut solo album dropped in 2011 titled late nights and early mornings
it features trucks penned by alicia keys and lauren hill 2014 would be a big year for both
ladies natalie released her third album titled rise of the phoenix mermaid and marsha released
her second album titled friends and lovers at the end of that year they finally reunited during a
concert of marsha's and performed together soon after marsha would confirm that the duo would be
touring and recording a new album their reunion lasted for two years however another split was
on the horizon and would happen on the second leg of the tour in august 2016. in the same breakfast
club interview marsha let it rip about what really happened during the tour that left a
permanent bad taste in her mouth about natalie she revealed that during the first year of the tour
when she met and was getting intimately acquainted with their tour bus driver des phillips she
overheard natalie co-signed disparaging comments centered around marsha's past sexual escapades
and also made inquiries as to when dez was going to become the next notch on her belt
those comments came from some of the men in their camp via a voice note to dez's phone however
marsha heard them loud and clear she chalked it up to boys being boys engaging in typical locker
room talk but when she heard natalie chime in in agreement it cut like a knife however it was
natalie's behavior during the second year that really solidified that their partnership and
friendship was over for good during the first week of the tour marsha found out that she was pregnant
after several more weeks had passed she finally revealed everything to natalie who didn't appear
to be very excited at all then to add insult to injury natalie continued to smoke ganja on
the tour bus which marsha didn't appreciate it was then that marsha realized that her
loyal to a fault approach to their relationship was hurting her it was finally starting to
register that natalie never really was the friend that marsha wanted her to be and maybe never would
be natalie married for the second time to former drummer for english rock band the stone roses
robbie maddox in 2017. in 2020 they debuted their husband and wife supergroup called
i and i marcia andez welcomed a daughter in 2016 and married the following year her latest project
her third solo album titled nyla which is also her daughter's name was released in september 2018.
throughout 2020 marsha spent her time working on what she thought would be a quarantine ep she says
that all her loved ones that she played it for think it's her best work yet hopefully fans will
get to hear it too very soon thanks for watching please like share and comment also don't forget to
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