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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