This Little Cutie Grew Up To Become An R&B Songstress With A Lotta Baggage
This little girl grew up to have one of the most beautiful voices in the music industry and when she first stepped onto the scene in the 90’s, folks were like ‘Dang that girl can SANG!’
Look closely at her pic and see if you can figure this one out, scroll down and let us know if your guess was on point…
Who’s That Girl?!!
It’s our girl, Marsha Ambrosius of the R&B duo, Floetry! She looks just like she did when she was a youngin’ doesn’t she?
We love us some Marsha, here at ILOSM, and we really love Floetry. With hits like, “Say Yes,” “Butterflies,” Getting Late,” “Floetry,” and more, they were killing the music game in the 90s and early 2000’s. Then things took a turn for the worse…
Their Breakup & Baggage
Unfortunately, when Floetry split up in 2006 they had many of us neo-soul lovers damn near about to shed a tear over it because they were part of the last generation of the only true soul music artists left. So them splitting up contributed to the demise the dwindling soul music genre as we knew it.
In mid 2014, Marsha gave her version of the story as to why they split up in the first place:
“When we first started out, I was already writing and producing. Nat was a poet,” said Ambrosius. “I called her to do a song called ‘Fantasize’ I already had and put some poetry to it, and it became a fusion of two solo artists that did something awesome together. So when it works, it works, and it didn’t work anymore.
“When you disagree on where you are in your lives you can’t create.”
But in 2012 Natalie “The Floatist” spoke out to give her side of the story and it’s a tad bit different from Marsha’s:
“Marsha left Floetry, after so much joint success and foundation building, to join Aftermath Records, with no assurance of an album release. Ultimately, holding Floetry to ransom, to pursue a possibility of ‘mainstream’ success and all that was gained, was whatever they would’ve put into her pocket, and a mixtape release entitled ‘Neo Soul is Dead’. This to me is the perfect example of someone selling out, or selling their soul.”
Then Floetry bounced BACK like they never left! In the end of 2014 and once again graced us with that dynamic Floetry sound like this…
