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?

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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

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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 Floacist” 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…

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If you’re like us, here at ILOSM, and were hoping to eventually get new Floetry music soon, think again. Just when you thought everything was finally all good between Marsha Ambrosius (the ‘Songstress’) and Natalie Stewart (the ‘Floacist’), turns out, it’s just not. Marsha finally revealed why in a 2017 interview with The Breakfast Club and she pinpointed three major situations that caused them to break up three times.

The Pregnancy Drama

At the 6:58 mark of the video below, Marsha talks about how they’d stopped speaking to each other, after tension  over Marsha’s high risk pregnancy of her and fiancee, Dez’s, child. Marsha found out she was pregnant while on tour in 2016 and she says prior to getting pregnant, she already didn’t like smoke on the tour bus because it damages the singing voice. But then this happened:

“If I’m already vocally going for blood every night as I did on that tour, I don’t really want any smoking on the bus…I don’t want no smoke on the bus anyway.” After telling Natalie she was pregnant, Marsha recalled, “I remember telling her [Natalie] and she’s like ‘Oh I kinda figured it out on my own.’ I was like ‘Okay…thanks…you’re welcome’ and moved on.”

Following the dry reaction from Natalie, Marsha claims Natalie continued to smoke on the bus, out of blatant disrespect and disregard for her unborn child.

(Video) Natalie Betrayed Her With Their Band Members?

Marsha then revealed a time when Natalie allegedly betrayed her:

“The band had this app called Zello, and remember the Sprint Chirp phones? You would send a message like ‘Yo what’s up?’ and it would come up on your phone as a voice note on the loud speaker. So…we’re sitting there (Marsha and her then new boyfriend, Dez)…his phone is on the table, we’re at the diner choppin’ it up, getting to know each other type sh*t. And on the loud speaker, [it’s] like ‘Yo Dez you ain’t fu%k yet?’ So I’m like ‘No, please let it play’ because I’m a ball player first, I’ve done locker room talk, so that’s cool. Then another band member chimes in and said ‘Yo you ain’t perp yet? You know she fu%ked everybody in Philly.’ I’m like ‘Wow! My pu$$y’s legendary…Geez!’ (LOL) It’s a myth, I’m trying to figure out all these Philly people I’ve perped.”

But here’s where the ‘funny’ chirps came to a screeching halt:

“Then another one chimes in and it’s her [Natalie]…she was co-signing everyone else’s lines, like ‘Yeah Dez, what’s up with you?’ So I was like okay…once again, affirmation- when someone shows you who they are, believe them…believe them, believe ’em every time. So I let it go, but what they didn’t understand is I had to get on stage every night with these people. […] Guys are gonna be guys, so I can let that slide. … But HER? Nah, not so much, like…you don’t ride for me like that. So I still got on stage every night for the fans and did what I had to do. But that app, Zello, it saves everything as voice notes…it’s all recorded.

At one point in the interview Marsha added “We’ll never be cool, because she’ll just never be there for me like a friend should.” We truly hope they can once and for all reconcile, not just for the sake of music, but for the sake of their genuine love for one another.

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