Tionne Tenese Watkins, also known by her stage name T-Boz, was born on 26 April 1970, in Des Moines, Iowa, and as a teen she worked as an apprentice in an Atlanta hair salon, participating in hair shows and competition, and she won her first competition at the age of 14. In 1990 Crystal Jones held auditions for a singing group and chose Watkins, and Lisa Lopes. The group eventually attracted the attention of Perri "Pebbles" Reid and her husband, Antonio "L.A." Reid, head of LaFace Records, and after Jones was replaced with Rozonda Thomas the group were signed to the label as TLC. In order to preserve the TLC name, Watkins is now named "T-Boz", while Lopes became "Left Eye" and Thomas became "Chilli". Having sold over 60 million records worldwide, TLC are one of the five best-selling American girl groups of all time, and Billboard magazine ranked them as one of the greatest musical trios, as well as the seventh-most-successful act of the 1990's. Following the release of their 'Fanmail' album in 1999, they took some time off and pursued personal interests. Lopes was the first to begin recording her solo album, 'Supernova', and Chilli waited until 2006 to begin recording of her shelved album 'Bipolar', while T-Boz had two singles out by 2000, with 'My Getaway' and 'Tight To Def' with Mack 10, who she married later that year.
She had already released a solo single while still part of TLC, when 'Touch Myself' was included on the soundtrack of the 1996 film 'Fled') and 'My Getaway' was also used for the soundtrack of the 2000 film 'Rugrats in Paris: The Movie', and additionally she was a featured vocalist on songs such as 'Ghetto Love' with Da Brat, 'Changes' with Society of Soul, 'He Say She Say' with Keith Sweat. In 2011 she started work on an album, to be called 'Still Cool', which included some tracks going back as far as 2005, when 'My Heart' was recorded as a warm-up demo, and the material later evolved into more club-themed material. An initial offering, 'Get It, Get It', was leaked to the internet around late 2009, but unfortunately it fell on deaf ears, and so the decision was made to go through a re-recording process to satisfy her creative decisions. By 2013, when the song 'Champion' was released as a single, it was discovered that recording for the album had actually ceased around 2011, and that a completely new album was underway, with a track titled 'Fuck It' to be released as a lead single. Unfortunately, both that album and its single were cancelled as well, but we do have the abandoned 'Still Cool' recordings to hear what T-Boz was up to after she left TLC.
Track listing
01 Get It, Get It (feat. Too Short & Yung Joc)
02 U Got Me Open
03 Game Proof (with Chilli of TLC)
04 Champion
05 Rebel Yell (feat. Lil Wayne)
06 Start Off New
07 Can It Be Love
08 My Heart
09 Miracles
10 Someday
