Yummy Bingham

Elizabeth T. Wyce Bingham , also called Yummy , is a singer American of R&B, also author, producing and leading of label. It is a former member of the group Tha' Rayne. She is soprano and was certified 4 octaves. Its voice very particular and distinct from all the others like its capacity to be sung in the acute ones, makes of Yummy Bingham, a liked or hated voice but ever confused with another.

Biography

Childhood

Elizabeth " Yummy" Bingham was born on January 7th, 1986 from the marriage of Dinky Bingham and Patricia Wyce. Goddaughter of two legends of the R&B, Chaka Khan and Aaron Hall, Yummy Bingham was surrounded by the music since her birth. His/her father, Dinky Bingham is a musician of reputation, singer and producer, author of several tubes for Changing Faces, New Edition, Kylie Minogue and Jaheim.

His/her father being always on the roads, Yummy grew with his mother until the social services withdraw its guard with his/her parents following allegations of abuse. At the 10 years age, Yummy is placed in his/her paternal grandparents, pastors with Southside Jamaïca, a difficult district of the Queens (New York). Living conditions that she known in her mother, as well as the heavy legal battle which followed and the family quarrels which surrounded it made of Yummy a child difficult and impulsive, implied, between 10 and 14 years, in from punishable acts filling a whole album enough with gangsta rep. At the 15 years age, his/her father and his mother-in-law again obtain the guard of Yummy, which moves on their premises, in the quieter district of Ten Hills. Yummy finally starts to know stability.

Beginnings of career (1998-2001)

Bingham started by playing of the battery in its church at the 7 years age, then she sang in the choral society of the church. At the 9 years age, a professor of music of his school noticed the voice particulère of Yummy and made it sing in solo with a concert of the school. But Bingham, which was particularly timid when it was a question of singing, started to seriously think of making career only at age the 12 years, when everyone around it ceased wanting to make it sing at all costs.

Bingham wrote and recorded its first demonstration at the 12 years age, in 1998, with his/her father and the cousin of this one, the singer and author Connie McKendrick. During long months, they diffused the demonstration with the professionals. In 2000, the producer KayGee, group Naughty by Nature is then interested by the young singer and sign a contract with it for his label Divine Millet. About at the same time, Supa Dave West, a producer whose his father had been the mentor, comes to find it to record a song with the group Of the Drunk person for the B.O of the film Osmosis Jones, left in 2001. It was the beginning of long series of collaborations, establishing Yummy Bingham as appointed singer of Drunk person.

Tha' Rayne (2000-2004)

In 2000, KayGee, very interested by the demonstration of Yummy, recruits it for its new girl group Tha' Rayne and a contract with the label Arista in 2001 obtains to them. The group records choruses and refrains for artists like Boyz II Men, Queen Latifah, Next and Jaheim.

As a member of Tha' Rayne, Bingham could taste with the spotlights with their vocal participation in the tube of Jaheim, “Fabulous” like with their clean individual: “Rock'n'roll Wit Me” (2002), “No Coils” (2002) and “Didn' T You Know” (2003), produced by Rich Harrison. Their first album, “Reign Supreme”, was planned for March 2004 when Arista went bankrupt in January and the contract of the group was broken. Consequently, the group decided to separate.

Since 2003, while being devoted to its group, Yummy was authorized some escapades in solo to record choruses and refrains for artists like Of the Drunk person, Talib Kweli, Black Sheep, Lupe Fiasco, 2pac, Jae Millz or Salt (of the group Salt-N-Pepa.

Muzik Park (2004-2006)

After the separation of its group, at the beginning of 2004, Yummy decided to be devoted initially to the writing. She collaborated with producers like Troy Oliver, DRE & Vidal, The Buchanans, or Jimi Kendrix, writing and recording for artists like Tarralyn Ramsey, Amerie, Crystal Kay, Philly' S Most Wanted, Shawn Kane, Ja Rule or Patti Labelle.

It is at the same period that it joined again contact with the super producer Rockwilder, a former friend of its father. They started to work together with songs for other artists: Destiny's Child, Mya, Syleena Johnson, Mary J. Blige, JC Chasez or Busta Rhymes, but alchemy was such as Rockwilder very quickly offered to Yummy to become Co-leading of its label Muzik Park, while being there under contract as a singer. Little time afterwards, in September 2004, Muzik Park and Yummy Bingham signed a contract of distribution with the label Cash Money /Universal for a very short experiment. At the 19 years age, Yummy became young person leading of label distributed by a major.

Following problems of nonpayment on behalf of Cash Money, Bingham very quickly could leave the label and sign with one of leading of Universal, Sylvia the Rhone, which absolutely wanted Yummy for its own label, Motown.

Its individual As Get It (which counts Jadakiss) initially seemed a title of Mixtapes and individual digital (exit in may 2005), but the title was very quickly appreciated of the public and DJs, so that Motown decided to turn the clip and of officially launching the song on the radios in the month of August 2005. The individual one became an average tube in the United States. As of October, the song was used in a publicity for the automobile mark Pontiac, giving to individual audience even broader.

The individual following, Is It Good To You , produced by Rockwilder, was originally written for the Destiny's Child but when the title their was proposed, only Beyoncé wanted it, so that Yummy decided to keep the song for its own album. The title was ready to be launched on the American radios in March 2006, but very little DJs had retained the song, so that the label this individual for another changed quickly: One More Chance unloaded on the American radios on April 24th, 2006, with an entry crashing to pieces in the second place of titles R&B the most added to the playlists of the radios. But little time afterwards, Yummy entered in conflict, within its label Muzik Park, with Rockwilder and Randy Parker, its manager and third joint owner of the label. While remaining shareholder of the company, Yummy decided to change managament. The promotion of its individual was stopped and the exit of its album, temporarily suspended.

The First Seed (2006)

Individual the One More Chance profited from an excellent exposure within British community R&B, the being classified title 5 weeks consecutive in the 2nd place of the BBC will 1xtra R&B Charts (based on the sale of vinyl). This fact drew the attention of the English label Island Record Group (partner of Motown in England) which selected Yummy for an English exit.

Yummy Bingham was introduced with the English public at the end of August, like one of the revelations of Canaval de Notting Hill. During the carnival, the clip of its individual As Get It was bombarded by various music channels. The clip received a sharp success and particularly suddenly, the public strongly wondering about the identity of this Yummy Bingham, presents everywhere like unloading nowhere. Unfortunately the success of As Get It was as in short as suddenly, and when the individual one left in the vats on October 2nd, 2006, the audience of individual was already gone down again. The title was classified 82e sales the individual ones in England and 38e of sales R&B.

The album of Yummy, The First Seed left to England on October 9th, with Muzik Park, always associated with the project. It is for the dubious moment that the album left to the United States.

Czar Entertainment (2006-)

Yummy Bingham right now started to work on its second album. In England, its second individual “One More Chance” is planned for an exit in January 2007. The vinyls and promotion CD were already distributed since November 20th, 2006.

Bingham signed an new agreement of management with Czar Entertainement. It also develops its own company of production: Sweat Station-wagon Entertainment/Sweat Muzic Station-wagon.

Yummy interprête currently credits of the new emission TV of Czar Entertainment: an emission of Hip Hop and Poker entitled Hip-Hop Hold' em' whose first episode, diffused on October 6th, 2006 recorded an audience of 1,5 million.

Collaborations

Here the list (nonexhaustive) of the artists with whom Yummy Bingham collaborated, as a singer, author or producing. Amerie - Ashanti - Beyoncé - Billy Guy - Black Sheep - Boyz II Men - Busta Rhymes - Chaka Khan - Christina Aguilera - Christina Milian - Cory Gunz - Hook Kay - Dalia Rayen - Of the Drunk person - Destiny's Child - Dr. DRE - Faith Evans - Gemini - Jadakiss - Ja Rule - Jae Millz - Jaheim - Jarron - JC Chasez - Kelly Rowland - Keshia Chante - Mary J. Blige - Merlino - Midwikid - Monica - Mos Def - Mya - Next - P. Diddy - Patti Labelle - Philly' S Most - Queen Latifah - Ray Cash - Redman - Rob Jackson - Salt (from Salt NR Pepa) - Shawn Kane - Shayla G - Spazzout - Syleena Johnson - Natasha Ramos - Talib Kweli

Bonds

Yummy Bingham online
Yummy Bingham official US site

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