Charlene Keys was born on 21 January 1971), and is better known by the stage name Tweet. In the early 90's she Tweet joined the female trio Sugah, which comprised Tweet, Susan Weems, and Rolita White, and they were part of Devante Swing's Swing Mob collective. While there, she met Missy "Misdemeanor" Elliott, with whom she formed a close friendship' leading to her appearing on Missy Elliott's platinum-selling third album, 'Miss E... So Addictive', being featured on one track and providing background vocals to another four. In March 2002 she released her debut solo single, 'Oops (Oh My)', which was produced by Timbaland and features guest vocals by Missy Elliott, and which hit number one on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs. In April 2002, Tweet released her debut album Southern 'Hummingbird', which featured Missy Elliott, Bilal, and Ms. Jade, and it reached number three on the Billboard 200 chart. In 2002 she appeared as a guest vocalist on a number of albums, including those from Trina, Meshell Ndegeocello, Karen Clark Sheard, Ms. Jade, and Whitney Houston. This continued throughout 2003, with appearance on records by Madonna, Monica, and Mark Ronson, and she also began recording songs for her follow-up to 'Southern Hummingbird'. The album was supposed to be released in early 2004, but was pushed back when Tweet moved from Elektra Entertainment Group to Atlantic Records, but she did release the single 'Turn Da Lights Off' that year, which was produced by Missy Elliott and Kwamé. In March 2005 her second album appeared, and 'It's Me Again' peaked at #17 on the Billboard album charts, before quickly falling out of the charts.
She then broke away from her manager, Mona Scott, and Violator Management, and signed with Mathew Knowles of Music World, leading to her departing from Missy Elliott's Goldmind Inc. camp and signing to Jheryl Busby and Mike City's record label, Umbrella Recordings. There, she began recording material for her third album, along with producers Nisan Stewart, Warryn Campbell and Novel. Initially titled 'Love, Tweet', the album was preceded by the buzz single 'Good Bye My Dear', a collaboration with rapper T.I., it was expected to be released on 8 April 2008. The release of lead single 'Anymore' failed to materialize, however, and after a couple of years she grew tired of Umbrella's lack of promotion and ongoing delays to her releases, and so she left them and signed to MC Lyte's record label DuBose Music Group. In June 2012 she began posting previously unreleased material from the 'It's Me Again' and 'Love, Tweet' recording sessions on her new website, as a part of her weekly SoundCloud-hosted special, Tweet Tuesdays, and in 2013 DuBose did finally release her 'Simply Tweet' EP, which was recorded live with a full band. In July 2015, Tweet confirmed that she had signed with the independent eOne Music label, and her third album 'Charlene', was released in 2016, confirming that 'Love, Tweet' would never appear. This post is therefore made up of the tracks that she posted from both of her early album sessions, most of which would probably have appeared on the 'Love, Tweet' album, had it appeared in 2008 as intended.
Track listing
01 I Just Wanna
02 Remedy
03 Everything
04 Cruisin'
05 Alone
06 Trouble
07 Anymore
08 Love Again
09 My Dear (feat. T.I.)
10 I Admit It
11 Real Lady
12 Can't Live Without You (feat. Novel)
13 See Ya
14 Whisper
15 Give It To Ya
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