Jamie Hawkins comes from a musical family, and at the age of 16 he was already working with such gospel legends as his parents, Walter Hawkins and Tramaine Hawkins, and his uncle, Edwin Hawkins, leader of the Edwin Hawkins Singers. At the age of 19 he was was the assistant musical director for MC Hammer's 1992 Too Legit to Quit Tour, and from there he became the musical director for Jodeci's Forever My Lady Tour. in addition to all this, he was the musical director for the extremely successful MTV Unplugged TV show, featuring Uptown recording artists Jodeci, Mary J. Blige, Father MC, Christopher Williams, and Heavy D & the Boyz. In 1998 Hawkins served as musical director for Lauryn Hill's Miseducation Tour, and for 18 months preceding this, he was musical director for Boyz II Men. He has consistently set his sights high, and started a career as a recording artist with Monami/Elektra Records, with his first single being the catchy 'Lost My Mind' in 2000, taken from the album that he recorded for Elektra Records in 1999. Despite his eye-catching live performances attracting rave reviews, the album was cancelled in 2001, and so his hoped-for singing career came to nothing, which is a shame as he definitely had something, being compared favourably to Stevie Wonder. Luckily some promo copies of the album were pressed, and so we can now enjoy yet another album where the record company had no idea of just what they were giving up.
Track listing
01 Lost My Mind
02 Next To You
03 More And More
04 Tell Me
05 Spend My Life With You
06 I Saw You (Interlude)
07 It's Over Now
08 Thought You Should Know
09 Just Friends
10 Just Jamie (Interlude)
11 Do You Remember
12 You're The One For Me
13 Prelude
14 By My Side
15 The Story
16 Just Jamie - Outro
