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Release Some Tension is SWV's third album. Guest appearances are made by [[E-40]], [[Sean Combs|P. Diddy]], [[Missy Elliott]], [[Foxy Brown (rapper)|Foxy Brown]], [[Lil' Cease]], [[Lil' Kim]], [[Snoop Doggy Dogg]], and [[Redman (rapper)|Redman]]. The album features hits like "Rain" (which samples [[Jaco Pastorius]]'s classic "[[Portrait of Tracy]]"), "Someone", "Can We" (which was originally included on the [[Booty Call (soundtrack)|soundtrack]] for the [[Jamie Foxx]] film, [[Booty Call]]). and cancelled single "Lose My Cool". "Someone", although featuring one of the biggest producers/artists of the year, Puff Daddy, only reached #19 on the Billboard charts which sampled [[The Notorious B.I.G]]'s "Ten Crack Commandment's & [[Les McCann]]'s "Valantra" also the flowing "When U Cry" sampling [[Tyrone Davis]] "In The Mood" .The album was certified gold for shipping 500,000 copies in the U.S. alone. [http://riaa.com/goldandplatinumdata.php?table=SEARCH_RESULTS RIAA Database] A few months later A Special Christmas was released in the United States on November 18, 1997 by [[RCA Records]]. It is a holiday album featuring both cover versions and original material. ''A Special Christmas'' would be the penultimate album the trio recorded together before they disbanded in 1998. [[Coko]], the group's lead singer, released her first solo album in 1999.
Release Some Tension is SWV's third album. Guest appearances are made by [[E-40]], [[Sean Combs|P. Diddy]], [[Missy Elliott]], [[Foxy Brown (rapper)|Foxy Brown]], [[Lil' Cease]], [[Lil' Kim]], [[Snoop Doggy Dogg]], and [[Redman (rapper)|Redman]]. The album features hits like "Rain" (which samples [[Jaco Pastorius]]'s classic "[[Portrait of Tracy]]"), "Someone", "Can We" (which was originally included on the [[Booty Call (soundtrack)|soundtrack]] for the [[Jamie Foxx]] film, [[Booty Call]]). and cancelled single "Lose My Cool". "Someone", although featuring one of the biggest producers/artists of the year, Puff Daddy, only reached #19 on the Billboard charts which sampled [[The Notorious B.I.G]]'s "Ten Crack Commandment's & [[Les McCann]]'s "Valantra" also the flowing "When U Cry" sampling [[Tyrone Davis]] "In The Mood" .The album was certified gold for shipping 500,000 copies in the U.S. alone. [http://riaa.com/goldandplatinumdata.php?table=SEARCH_RESULTS RIAA Database] A few months later A Special Christmas was released in the United States on November 18, 1997 by [[RCA Records]]. It is a holiday album featuring both cover versions and original material. ''A Special Christmas'' would be the penultimate album the trio recorded together before they disbanded in 1998. [[Coko]], the group's lead singer, released her first solo album in 1999.


===1998-07: Hiatus and Reuniting of SWV ===
===2005 – present===
The group split in 1998. The members began leading their own careers. After SWV disbanded, Coko went on to release her first solo album under [[RCA]], titled ''Hot Coko'', released August 1999. The first single, "Sunshine," which was dedicated to her son Jazz, reached the Top 40 position in the R&B charts that summer. However, both the album and singles did not gather the same mainstream success as Coko once did with SWV. Meanwhile, Coko was working on a second solo album titled ''Music Doll'' in early 2001, but RCA closed the black music division and the project was shelved. Since then, she has concentrated more on her family, and eventually married gospel producer and drummer for [[Israel and New Breed]], Mike "Big Mike" Clemmons, the father of her second son, Jaylon. She currently resides in Virginia Beach, Virginia.{{citation needed|date=March 2010}} In 2001, Coko and her Mother Lady "Clyde" Tibba Gamble did a remake of the song "[[Tears in Heaven]]" (originally recorded by [[Eric Clapton]]) on the album ''Rhythm and Spirit: "Love Can Build a Bridge"''. The album featured other artists such as [[Jennifer Holliday]], [[Patti Labelle]], and [[Tramaine Hawkins]]. Clemons sang on the Brent Jones & TP Mobb single "Midnite" in 2002. She also appeared on Youthful Praise's 2003 gospel album ''Thank You for the Change'' singing lead on "Up There".
Coko's full gospel solo debut, ''Grateful'', was released in the United States on October 31, 2006<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.gospelflava.com/articles/cokointerview2006.html|title=Interview with Coko: A New Beginning|publisher=GospelFlava.com}}</ref> and debuted at #5 on Billboard's Top Independent albums chart.<ref name="cokono5"/> ''Grateful'' includes an all-star cover of [[The Clark Sisters]]' "Endow Me" which features R&B singers [[Faith Evans]], [[Fantasia Barrino]] and [[Lil Mo]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.gospelflava.com/reviews/coko.html|title=Grateful Album Review|author=Bonner, Gerald|publisher=GospelFlava.com}}</ref> An alternate version, minus Faith Evans was performed on [[BET]]'s ''Celebration of Gospel '07''. A special edition of ''Grateful'' only available through [[Wal-Mart]] includes two bonus tracks "I Wish" and Brent Jones' "Midnite" featuring Coko on lead vocals.
Coko was reported to have joined an all-black touring cast performing the critically acclaimed play ''[[The Vagina Monologues]]'', along with [[Sherri Shepherd]], [[Star Jones]], [[Vanessa L. Williams]], and others.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.eurweb.com/story/eur39840.cfm|title=STAR JONES, SHERRI SHEPHERD IN 'MONOLOGUES': New black version of 'Vagina Monologues' to begin tour next month.|date=2008-01-09|publisher=EURweb}}</ref> In June 2008, Coko performed in Japan for the Billboard Live Tour. She sang some of her solo hits "Sunshine", "Clap Your Hands", and the SWV song "[[Right Here/Human Nature]]".

After SWV officially disbanded in 1997, Johnson-George was signed to a two-year contract with the [[Ford Modeling Agency]]. Shortly after this contract ended, Johnson-George began dating Tennessee Titan [[Eddie George]], whom she'd met at a shopping mall in 1994.<ref>{{cite web|url = http://video.aol.com/video-detail/eddie-and-taj-george-tca-intv/342879776/?icid=VIDLRV04|title = Eddie & Taj George |publisher = TCA INTV| year = 2007}}</ref> Johnson-George contributed to the anthology ''Souls of My Sisters: Black Women Break Their Silence, Tell Their Stories and Heal Their Spirits'', which was published in 2000. In 2002, Johnson-George enrolled in [[Belmont University]] in Nashville, earning a Bachelor's of Business Administration in May 2004.<ref>{{cite web|url = http://www.hhnlive.com/features/more/430|title = SWV's Tamara "Taj" Johnson|publisher = HHNLive.com}}</ref> The following month, Johnson-George married Eddie George in Rockleigh, New Jersey. Their son, Eriq Michael, was born in 2005<ref>{{cite web|url = http://www.swvonline.com/news.htm#news15|title = Taj Gives Birth!|publisher = SWV Online}}</ref> after a difficult pregnancy that left Johnson-George bedridden for the first five months of her pregnancy.<ref>{{cite web|url = http://www.nashvillescene.com/2005-03-17/news/the-longest-yard/5|title = The Longest Yard|publisher = The Nashville News| date = March 17, 2005}}</ref> Johnson-George is also the stepmother of Eddie's first son, Jaire David, whom she refers to as her oldest son,<ref>{{Cite journal|series = I Married a Baller|title = episode #3 ("Road Trippin'")|quote = I got my sons with me...my youngest is hyped. He's ready and excited, and my oldest is just excited to be on a bus.|postscript = <!--None-->}}</ref> and the godmother of [[Coko|Coko's]] oldest son, Jazz.<ref>{{cite web|url = http://new.music.yahoo.com/various-artists/news/coko-talks-about-swv-breakup--12058363|title = Coko Talks About SWV Breakup|publisher = Yahoo! Music|date = July 21, 1999}}</ref> Along with her friend Katrina Chambers, Johnson-George wrote the book ''Player hateHER: How to Avoid the Beat Down and Live in a Drama-Free World'' in 2007. That same year, Johnson-George and husband Eddie George starred in the reality TV show ''I Married a Baller'', which depicted five weeks in the George household over a course of nine shows. The show focused on Johnson-George and her marriage to Eddie George, her struggle to lose her "baby weight,"<ref>{{Cite journal|series = I Married a Baller|title = episode #7 ("California Dreamin'")|quote = I'm still trying to get my little 17-month-old son's weight off!|postscript = <!--None-->}}</ref> and performing with SWV, who came together to perform the theme song of the show. ''Baller'' also highlighted Visions with Infinite Possibilities, the Georges' not-for-profit charity for survivors of domestic violence and their children.


In 2005, SWV reunited and announced plans to record a new album the following year<ref name="mtv" /> (the album has not materialized). In 2007, the group performed dates with [[After 7]], [[Bobby Brown]], [[New Edition]], and [[Blackstreet]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.blackvoices.com/black_entertainment/bvbuzzcanvas/_a/april-2-2007/20070402143709990001|title=Candidly Coko|last=Murray|first=Jawn|date=2007-04-02|publisher=blackvoices.com|accessdate=2008-07-20}}</ref>
In 2005, SWV reunited and announced plans to record a new album the following year<ref name="mtv" /> (the album has not materialized). In 2007, the group performed dates with [[After 7]], [[Bobby Brown]], [[New Edition]], and [[Blackstreet]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.blackvoices.com/black_entertainment/bvbuzzcanvas/_a/april-2-2007/20070402143709990001|title=Candidly Coko|last=Murray|first=Jawn|date=2007-04-02|publisher=blackvoices.com|accessdate=2008-07-20}}</ref>
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In 2007, Johnson-George appeared in the [[TV One (US TV network)|TV One]] reality series ''I Married a Baller'' which documented her life with husband [[Eddie George]], former NFL player and present Nashville entrepreneur.<ref>[http://www.tvoneonline.com/shows/show.asp?sid=706] TV One Original Shows - I Married a Baller</ref> SWV members Coko and Lelee (who sing the theme song along with Taj) appear in a couple of the show's episodes. On June 24, 2008, SWV made a special appearance at the [[BET Awards]] of 2008, performing "Weak" with [[Alicia Keys]]. They also sang the chorus to [[TLC (band)|TLC's]] "[[Waterfalls (TLC song)|Waterfalls]]". Coko currently resides in [[Virginia Beach]], Lelee in [[Atlanta]] and Taj in [[Nashville, Tennessee|Nashville]].{{Citation needed|date=October 2008}}. Tamara "Taj" Johnson-George was a contestant on ''[[Survivor: Tocantins]]'', in which she came in fourth place. She was blindsided by her former alliance of [[James "J.T." Thomas, Jr.]] and Stephen Fishbach. She became the sixth Jury Member.<ref>{{cite news|title = Brazilian Wacks|publisher = [[TV Guide]]|date = 2009-01-13|pages = 40–41}}</ref> She participated in a 2009 national tour of the ''[[Vagina Monologues]]'' with an all-black cast, most of whom are also former reality show contestants.<ref>{{cite web|url= http://www.realityblurred.com/realitytv/archives/related_news/2009_Feb_05_vagina_monologues|title= Reality Stars Will Perform in the Vagina Monologues|publisher= Reality Blurred|date= February 5, 2009}}</ref>

In 2007, Johnson-George appeared in the [[TV One (US TV network)|TV One]] reality series ''I Married a Baller'' which documented her life with husband [[Eddie George]], former NFL player and present Nashville entrepreneur.<ref>[http://www.tvoneonline.com/shows/show.asp?sid=706] TV One Original Shows - I Married a Baller</ref> SWV members Coko and Lelee (who sing the theme song along with Taj) appear in a couple of the show's episodes.

On June 24, 2008, SWV made a special appearance at the [[BET Awards]] of 2008, performing "Weak" with [[Alicia Keys]]. They also sang the chorus to [[TLC (band)|TLC's]] "[[Waterfalls (TLC song)|Waterfalls]]". Coko currently resides in [[Virginia Beach]], Lelee in [[Atlanta]] and Taj in [[Nashville, Tennessee|Nashville]].{{Citation needed|date=October 2008}}.

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Tamara "Taj" Johnson-George was a contestant on ''[[Survivor: Tocantins]]'', in which she came in fourth place. She was blindsided by her former alliance of [[James "J.T." Thomas, Jr.]] and Stephen Fishbach. She became the sixth Jury Member.<ref>{{cite news|title = Brazilian Wacks|publisher = [[TV Guide]]|date = 2009-01-13|pages = 40–41}}</ref> She participated in a 2009 national tour of the ''[[Vagina Monologues]]'' with an all-black cast, most of whom are also former reality show contestants.<ref>{{cite web|url= http://www.realityblurred.com/realitytv/archives/related_news/2009_Feb_05_vagina_monologues|title= Reality Stars Will Perform in the Vagina Monologues|publisher= Reality Blurred|date= February 5, 2009}}</ref>

SWV appeared on ''[[The Mo'Nique Show]]'' on February 2, 2010, performing [[Patti LaBelle|Patti LaBelle's]] "[[If Only You Knew]]". Lelee and [[Coko]] provided the lead vocals. As of 2011 SWV has recently signed a record deal with Mass Appeal Entertainment and E1 Entertainment. On June 10, 2011 SWV was featured on the official remix of Chris Brown's remake of their Right Here/Human Nature song, "[[She Ain't You]]".
SWV appeared on ''[[The Mo'Nique Show]]'' on February 2, 2010, performing [[Patti LaBelle|Patti LaBelle's]] "[[If Only You Knew]]". Lelee and [[Coko]] provided the lead vocals. As of 2011 SWV has recently signed a record deal with Mass Appeal Entertainment and E1 Entertainment. On June 10, 2011 SWV was featured on the official remix of Chris Brown's remake of their Right Here/Human Nature song, "[[She Ain't You]]".


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For other uses, see SWV (disambiguation).
SWV
Also known asSisters with Voices
OriginNew York City, New York, United States
GenresR&B
Years active1990–1998,
2005–present
LabelsRCA, Mass Appeal Entertainment/E1 Music
MembersCheryl "Coko" Clemons
Tamara "Taj" Johnson-George
Leanne "Lelee" Lyons
Websitehttp://www.therealswv.com

Sisters with Voices, better known as SWV, is an American female R&B trio from New York. Formed in 1990 as a gospel group,[1] SWV became one of the most successful R&B groups of the 1990s. They had a series of hits, including "Weak", "Right Here/Human Nature", "I'm So Into You", and "You're the One". The group disbanded in 1998 to pursue solo projects, and reunited in 2005. SWV is currently ranked #100 on the Top 500 Pop Artists of the Past 25 Years at the website Rock on the Net.[2]

History and early career

SWV (an abbreviation for Sisters With Voices) was formed by three friends: Cheryl Gamble, Tamara Johnson and Leanne Lyons (the group's founder).[3] SWV got its start after the three friends sent a five song demo to record labels in the United States. Soon after, they were signed to a record deal with RCA Records in 1992 after producer Teddy Riley, a former member of Guy, heard the demo.

1992-95: It'a About Time and The Remixes

It's About Time is the debut studio album by American female R&B trio SWV, released by RCA Records on October 27, 1992 (see 1992 in music). It was certified triple platinum by the RIAA for more than three million copies shipped to store. [4] SWV's first single, "Right Here", was released in the fall of 1992, reaching #16 on the R&B charts. Their second single, "I'm So Into You," peaked at #2 on R&B and reached #6 on the Billboard Hot 100. The third single, "Weak", reached #1 on both the R&B and Hot 100 charts. "Right Here/Human Nature," the fourth single and a remix of their first single, "Right Here", featured samples of Michael Jackson's hit "Human Nature." "Right Here/Human Nature" peaked at #1 on R&B and #2 on the Hot 100. It was followed up with the additional Top10 R&B hits, "Downtown" (#2), and "Always On My Mind" (#8).[4][5] The album peak at 8 on the US Billboard 200. Following the success of their first album, SWV appeared on the soundtrack for the 1994 film Above the Rim. The single, "Anything", became a Top Ten R&B hit and reached #18 on the Hot 100 in the spring of 1994. That same year, SWV released The Remixes, which went gold by the end of the year. In the summer of 1995, the trio lent vocal harmonies to Blackstreet's Top 40 R&B hit "Tonight's the Night."

1996-97: New Beginning, Release Some Tension and A Special Christmas

New Beginning is the second album from R&B group SWV. The first single, "You're the One", became one of there signuture songs peaking at number five on Billboard's Hot 100 and topped the Hot R&B Singles. The second single, "Use Your Heart", saw the debut of the super producers The Neptunes. This song peaked at twenty-two on the Hot 100 and number six on the R&B chart. The last single, "It's All About U", found Taj taking most of the lead as opposed to Coko. The album was certified platinum for shipping 1,000,000 copies in the U.S. alone.[6] Also, in 1995 SWV appeared on the Waiting to Exhale: Original Soundtrack Album, recording the track, "All Night Long".

Release Some Tension is SWV's third album. Guest appearances are made by E-40, P. Diddy, Missy Elliott, Foxy Brown, Lil' Cease, Lil' Kim, Snoop Doggy Dogg, and Redman. The album features hits like "Rain" (which samples Jaco Pastorius's classic "Portrait of Tracy"), "Someone", "Can We" (which was originally included on the soundtrack for the Jamie Foxx film, Booty Call). and cancelled single "Lose My Cool". "Someone", although featuring one of the biggest producers/artists of the year, Puff Daddy, only reached #19 on the Billboard charts which sampled The Notorious B.I.G's "Ten Crack Commandment's & Les McCann's "Valantra" also the flowing "When U Cry" sampling Tyrone Davis "In The Mood" .The album was certified gold for shipping 500,000 copies in the U.S. alone. RIAA Database A few months later A Special Christmas was released in the United States on November 18, 1997 by RCA Records. It is a holiday album featuring both cover versions and original material. A Special Christmas would be the penultimate album the trio recorded together before they disbanded in 1998. Coko, the group's lead singer, released her first solo album in 1999.

1998-07: Hiatus and Reuniting of SWV

The group split in 1998. The members began leading their own careers. After SWV disbanded, Coko went on to release her first solo album under RCA, titled Hot Coko, released August 1999. The first single, "Sunshine," which was dedicated to her son Jazz, reached the Top 40 position in the R&B charts that summer. However, both the album and singles did not gather the same mainstream success as Coko once did with SWV. Meanwhile, Coko was working on a second solo album titled Music Doll in early 2001, but RCA closed the black music division and the project was shelved. Since then, she has concentrated more on her family, and eventually married gospel producer and drummer for Israel and New Breed, Mike "Big Mike" Clemmons, the father of her second son, Jaylon. She currently resides in Virginia Beach, Virginia.[citation needed] In 2001, Coko and her Mother Lady "Clyde" Tibba Gamble did a remake of the song "Tears in Heaven" (originally recorded by Eric Clapton) on the album Rhythm and Spirit: "Love Can Build a Bridge". The album featured other artists such as Jennifer Holliday, Patti Labelle, and Tramaine Hawkins. Clemons sang on the Brent Jones & TP Mobb single "Midnite" in 2002. She also appeared on Youthful Praise's 2003 gospel album Thank You for the Change singing lead on "Up There". Coko's full gospel solo debut, Grateful, was released in the United States on October 31, 2006[7] and debuted at #5 on Billboard's Top Independent albums chart.[8] Grateful includes an all-star cover of The Clark Sisters' "Endow Me" which features R&B singers Faith Evans, Fantasia Barrino and Lil Mo.[9] An alternate version, minus Faith Evans was performed on BET's Celebration of Gospel '07. A special edition of Grateful only available through Wal-Mart includes two bonus tracks "I Wish" and Brent Jones' "Midnite" featuring Coko on lead vocals. Coko was reported to have joined an all-black touring cast performing the critically acclaimed play The Vagina Monologues, along with Sherri Shepherd, Star Jones, Vanessa L. Williams, and others.[10] In June 2008, Coko performed in Japan for the Billboard Live Tour. She sang some of her solo hits "Sunshine", "Clap Your Hands", and the SWV song "Right Here/Human Nature".

After SWV officially disbanded in 1997, Johnson-George was signed to a two-year contract with the Ford Modeling Agency. Shortly after this contract ended, Johnson-George began dating Tennessee Titan Eddie George, whom she'd met at a shopping mall in 1994.[11] Johnson-George contributed to the anthology Souls of My Sisters: Black Women Break Their Silence, Tell Their Stories and Heal Their Spirits, which was published in 2000. In 2002, Johnson-George enrolled in Belmont University in Nashville, earning a Bachelor's of Business Administration in May 2004.[12] The following month, Johnson-George married Eddie George in Rockleigh, New Jersey. Their son, Eriq Michael, was born in 2005[13] after a difficult pregnancy that left Johnson-George bedridden for the first five months of her pregnancy.[14] Johnson-George is also the stepmother of Eddie's first son, Jaire David, whom she refers to as her oldest son,[15] and the godmother of Coko's oldest son, Jazz.[16] Along with her friend Katrina Chambers, Johnson-George wrote the book Player hateHER: How to Avoid the Beat Down and Live in a Drama-Free World in 2007. That same year, Johnson-George and husband Eddie George starred in the reality TV show I Married a Baller, which depicted five weeks in the George household over a course of nine shows. The show focused on Johnson-George and her marriage to Eddie George, her struggle to lose her "baby weight,"[17] and performing with SWV, who came together to perform the theme song of the show. Baller also highlighted Visions with Infinite Possibilities, the Georges' not-for-profit charity for survivors of domestic violence and their children.

In 2005, SWV reunited and announced plans to record a new album the following year[4] (the album has not materialized). In 2007, the group performed dates with After 7, Bobby Brown, New Edition, and Blackstreet.[18] In 2007, Johnson-George appeared in the TV One reality series I Married a Baller which documented her life with husband Eddie George, former NFL player and present Nashville entrepreneur.[19] SWV members Coko and Lelee (who sing the theme song along with Taj) appear in a couple of the show's episodes. On June 24, 2008, SWV made a special appearance at the BET Awards of 2008, performing "Weak" with Alicia Keys. They also sang the chorus to TLC's "Waterfalls". Coko currently resides in Virginia Beach, Lelee in Atlanta and Taj in Nashville.[citation needed]. Tamara "Taj" Johnson-George was a contestant on Survivor: Tocantins, in which she came in fourth place. She was blindsided by her former alliance of James "J.T." Thomas, Jr. and Stephen Fishbach. She became the sixth Jury Member.[20] She participated in a 2009 national tour of the Vagina Monologues with an all-black cast, most of whom are also former reality show contestants.[21] SWV appeared on The Mo'Nique Show on February 2, 2010, performing Patti LaBelle's "If Only You Knew". Lelee and Coko provided the lead vocals. As of 2011 SWV has recently signed a record deal with Mass Appeal Entertainment and E1 Entertainment. On June 10, 2011 SWV was featured on the official remix of Chris Brown's remake of their Right Here/Human Nature song, "She Ain't You".

SWV released their first single "Co-Sign" on December 15, 2011 via iTunes off their fourth studio album, I Missed Us, set to be released on April 10, 2012 via eOne Music and Mass Appeal Entertainment.[22][23][24]

Personnel

  • Cheryl "Coko" Clemons - (born June 13, 1970), New York, New York
  • Tamara "Taj" Johnson-George - (born April 29, 1971), Brooklyn, New York
  • Leanne "Lelee" Lyons - (born July 18, 1973), New York, New York

Discography

Further information: [[:SWV discography]]

Tours

Opening Acts

SWV featured a number of successful female groups as opening acts throughout their various touring engagements. Those groups included such contemporaries as Xscape, Jade, Total, 702, and Destiny's Child.[citation needed]

Awards and nominations

Year Result Award Category
1993 Nominated American Music Award Favorite New Artist - Pop/Rock
1993 Nominated Favorite Band, Duo or Group - Soul/Rhythm & Blues
1993 Nominated Favorite Album - Soul/Rhythm & Blues for It's About Time
1993 Nominated Favorite New Artist - Soul / Rhythm & Blues
1993 Win Kids Choice Awards Female Group Of The Decade
1993 Win Billboard Music Award Top Hot 100 Singles Artists - Duos/Group
1993 Win Top R&B Artists - Duos/Group
1993 Win Top R&B Singles Artists - Duos/Group
1993 Win Top Pop Artists - Duo/Group
1993 Win Top New Pop Artist
1993 Win Top Hot 100 Singles Artist
1993 Win Top Hot 100 Airplay Track for "Weak"
1993 Win Top R&B Artist
1993 Nominated Top New R&B Artist
1993 Nominated Top R&B Album Artists - Duos/Group
1993 Nominated Top R&B Singles Artist
1994 Nominated Top R&B Singles Artists - Duos/Group
1994 Nominated Top R&B Artists - Duos/Group
1997 Nominated Soul Train Lady of Soul Award Best R&B Soul single by a Group, Band, or Duo
1997 Nominated Soul Train Lady of Soul Award Best Soul/R&B album by a Group, Band or Duo
1998 Nominated Soul Train Lady of Soul Award Best Soul/R&B album by a Group, Band or Duo
1998 Nominated Soul Train Lady of Soul Award Best Soul/R&B single by a Group, Band or Duo
1994 Nominated Grammy Award Best New Artist

See also

Template:Wikipedia-Books

References

  1. ^ SWV Online
  2. ^ "Top Pop Artists of the Past 25 Years: 51-100". Rockonthenet.com.
  3. ^ "All about Leanne "Lelee" Lyons". With her love for singing, and sparse support from her family as motivation, Lelee's desires to put together a group were fueled. Lelee was initially responsible for putting SWV together, but success did not come easily.
  4. ^ a b c "SWV Biography". mtv.com. Retrieved 2008-08-01.
  5. ^ "SWV: Billboard chart history". billboard.com.
  6. ^ http://riaa.com/goldandplatinumdata.php?table=SEARCH_RESULTS
  7. ^ "Interview with Coko: A New Beginning". GospelFlava.com.
  8. ^ Cite error: The named reference cokono5 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  9. ^ Bonner, Gerald. "Grateful Album Review". GospelFlava.com.
  10. ^ "STAR JONES, SHERRI SHEPHERD IN 'MONOLOGUES': New black version of 'Vagina Monologues' to begin tour next month". EURweb. 2008-01-09.
  11. ^ "Eddie & Taj George". TCA INTV. 2007.
  12. ^ "SWV's Tamara "Taj" Johnson". HHNLive.com.
  13. ^ "Taj Gives Birth!". SWV Online.
  14. ^ "The Longest Yard". The Nashville News. March 17, 2005.
  15. ^ "episode #3 ("Road Trippin'")". I Married a Baller. I got my sons with me...my youngest is hyped. He's ready and excited, and my oldest is just excited to be on a bus. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  16. ^ "Coko Talks About SWV Breakup". Yahoo! Music. July 21, 1999.
  17. ^ "episode #7 ("California Dreamin'")". I Married a Baller. I'm still trying to get my little 17-month-old son's weight off! {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  18. ^ Murray, Jawn (2007-04-02). "Candidly Coko". blackvoices.com. Retrieved 2008-07-20.
  19. ^ [1] TV One Original Shows - I Married a Baller
  20. ^ "Brazilian Wacks". TV Guide. 2009-01-13. pp. 40–41.
  21. ^ "Reality Stars Will Perform in the Vagina Monologues". Reality Blurred. February 5, 2009.
  22. ^ http://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=213731605373542&id=368183310894. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  23. ^ http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/co-sign-single/id489925812?ls=1. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  24. ^ "SWV to Release First Album in 15 Years". Rap-Up.com. Rap-Up. January 23, 2012. Retrieved January 23, 2012.
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