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Shareese Renèe Ballard, better known as Res (pronounced reese) is a female R&B singer from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Her music is a mixture of soul, hip hop, and rock. She released her debut album, How I Do, in 2001 featuring the first single "Golden Boys". In spite of the video's heavy rotation on VH1, the song was not a hit on radio. Later the same year she released her second single "Ice King" featuring rapper Nas, unfortunately, like "Golden Boys" the song did not appeal to a mainstream audience and a video was never released for the single. In 2002 she released her third (and first hit) single "They Say Vision" which hit number one on the Billboard Dance chart and number 37 on the Hot 100 Singles Sales chart. With the success of the single, the album entered the Billboard 200 for the first time. A fourth single, "Sittin Back", was also released. After a near four year hiatus she is currently touring supporting vocals with Gnarls Barkley and is in the process of releasing her sophmore album. She just released a song on the Akeelah and the Bee(Keke Palmer,Lawrence Fishbourne and Angela Bassett) soundtrack called TO EMPOWER.
As of July 2006, Res' album "How I Do" has sold 244,000 in the U.S.
Discography
Albums
- How I Do (2001) U.S. #115 R&B #43
Singles
- 2001 "Golden Boys" U.S. Dance #30
- 2001 "Ice King"
- 2002 "They Say Vision" U.S. Dance #1
- 2002 "Sittin Back"
- 2005 "It's Gotta Be Love"
- 2006 "To Empower"
See also
- List of number-one dance hits (United States)
- List of artists who reached number one on the US Dance chart
External links
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