Keri Hilson gets the cover of the latest edition of Trace Magazine. The caption "Black Girls Rule!" is a very powerful positive statement. This edition featured a very special guest editor, Spike Lee (More on Spike later) and also features a Michelle Obama exclusive. I want to talk about Keri Hilson a bit because I don't think most people know who she really is. Hilson has been in the music business for much longer than most would imagine, she started out as a song writer in 2001 even though she always was a singer her first gigs came about through writing songs for other people and singing background or hooks for other people's songs. Some of the people that she has written for include: Britney Spears, Toni Braxton, Chris Brown, Ciara, Mary J. Blige, The Pussycat Dolls, Teairra Mari, Kelly Roland, Keke Palmer and Danity Kane. Just to name a few, the list goes on quite longer but she still wasn't recognized until 2004 when she performed at the European MTV Awards with Xhibit, they performed a song called Hey Now a song that she sung the background vocals to. In 2007 Hilson signed to Timberlands label and made some appearances on his solo album Shock Value, she was also the lead girl in the video to Usher's Love In This Club and she sung the chorus for Nas' single Hero off of his newest album Untitled. She is now set to release her solo album in 2008 entitled In a Perfect World so we can only wait and see how well she does but I expect nothing but good things from her.
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