CHERI DENNIS

'Cheri Dennis' (born 1982 in Cleveland, Ohio) is an American singer, signed to Bad Boy Records.

Contents

Biography

Career

Arrest

Voice

Discography

Albums

Singles

Guest Appearances

External links

Biography

Cheri Dennis was born in 1982 in Edenwald projects, Cleveland, Ohio. Cheri grew up in Shaker Heights, Ohio. She was initially a member of a group by the name of Spoiled. After that ended, Cheri left Shaker Heights and moved to New York where she began her recording career.

Career

Dennis first appeared on the Ma$e tracks ''"No Matter What"'', ''"All I Ever Wanted"'' and ''"If You Want To Party"'' from his 1999 album ''Double Up'', after running into Diddy during a party in New York. After appearing briefly on Puff Daddy's ''Forever'' album (''"Is This The End? (Pt. 2)"'') also in 1999, in 2001 she reappeared signed to Bad Boy Entertainment with her first solo track "So Complete" from the P. Diddy and The Bad Boy Family album "The Saga Continues...". Afterwards she was heard on several mixtapes, before finally releasing her first single, the Ryan Leslie produced track "I Love You", in fall 2005. The single has peaked at #38 on Billboard's Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles & Tracks so far, a video was filmed in March and premiered on 106 and Park on May 1, 2006. The Second single is rumored to be a track featuring Bad Boy's Low entitled "Showdown". Her song "Oh La La" was originally used as an Opener for Making The Band 3, Which suggested that the final band recorded the song. The girls often referred to the song in competitions.
Her debut album, which was originally self-titled, was scheduled to be released June 13, 2006, but got pushed back to August 8, then to October, then January 2007, then to an undetermined date. In a recent Sohh.com column, Dennis stated that the label delays were simply due to label politics as well as image conflict, and the album was still a go. The album in question, now titled ''I Finally Made It'', is set to hit stores Fall 2007. The album was recently pushed back to January 2008.^[1]
Recently, a track of hers called "All I Wanna Do" premiered on Diddy's myspace page. You can listen to it here. Another song, titled "Portrait" which features Yung Joc and Boyz N Da Hood member Gorilla Zoe leaked onto the internet.

Arrest

On Friday, June 8, 2007, Dennis was arrested for nonviolently resisting arrest after an incident in Tampa, Florida where they suspected her cousin of unlawful weapons posession. When they threw her against the car, Dennis became concerned and asked for badge numbers. The officers then arrested her and she spent the night in the county jail. She was released the next morning on $500 bond.

Voice

'Voice'

★ Lyric Mezzo-Soprano
'Highest note'

★ F#5 in "I Love You"
'Highest Full Voice Note'

★ D5 in "Oh La La"
'Lowest note'

★ F3 in "Showdown"

Discography

Albums

''I Finally Made It'' (2008)

Singles

Year	Title	Chart Positions			Album
		US Hot 100	US R&B/Hip-Hop	UK Singles
2006	"I Love You" (featuring Jim Jones & Yung Joc)	-	#38	-	I Finally Made It
2007	"Showdown"	-	-	-	I Finally Made It

Guest Appearances

Year	Artist	Album	Title (s)	Notes
1999	Ma$e	''Double Up''	"If You Want To Party", "All I Ever Wanted", "No Matter What"	-
1999	Puff Daddy	''Forever''	"Is This The End (Pt. 2)"	-
2001	Faith Evans	''Faithfully''	"Faithful (Interlude)"	Co-writer
2001	P. Diddy & The Bad Boy Family	''The Saga Continues...''	"Incomplete (Interlude)", "So Complete", "Back For Good Now"	-
2001	Olivia	''Olivia''	"Look Around"	Co-writer
2005	The Notorious B.I.G.	''	"Living The Life"	-
2005	Black Rob	''The Black Rob Report''	"B.R."	-
2006	Danity Kane	''Danity Kane''	"Back Up"	Co-Writer, Originally recorded by Cheri Dennis
2006	Yung Joc	''New Joc City''	"Flip Flop	-
2006	Diddy	''Press Play''	Outro to ''"Diddy Rock"''	-

External links

★ Cheri Dennis official site

★ BadBoy Records official site

★ BadBoy Records Fansite

★ PDiddy Fansite