Career
In 2000, at age 14, Bingham was recruited by producer KayGee to form the group Tha' Rayne, signed to Arista. [4] The group recorded an album, [5] appeared on a bunch of labelmates tracks [6] including Jaheim's Fabulous that hit #1 on the US Billboard Adult R&B chart for three weeks from February 1, 2003, to February 22, 2003. [7] The group released the single "Didn't You Know", [8] peaking at #76 in September 2003 on the US Billboard R&B chart. [9] Their debut album, "Reign Supreme" [4] never came out and the group disbanded in 2005. [4]
While being a member of Tha' Rayne, Bingham was also getting a name for herself as the appointed vocalist of veteran hip-hop group De La Soul, [10] being featured on various of their songs and singles, and accompanying them on tour between 2000 and 2004. [11] From 2003, Bingham started to collaborate to various artists, getting writing and/or vocals credits on songs from Talib Kweli, [3] Patti LaBelle, [12] Lupe Fiasco, [13] Black Sheep, [14] P. Diddy, [15] Christina Aguilera [16] Mary J. Blige, [16] Sunshine Anderson, [17] Busta Rhymes, [18] Nas, [19] Keyshia Cole, [19] Amerie, [16] Mýa [20] or Monica. [21]
At age 18, Bingham became the youngest female CEO of a major-affiliated label [22] and the youngest female record executive. [4] She formed the label "Muzic Park" with Grammy award-winning beatmaker Rockwilder [3] and was the label's first artist through a record deal with Motown in the United States [23] and Island Records in the United Kingdom,. [24] She released the singles "Come Get It", [4] "Is It Good To You" and "One More Chance" [25] and released her debut album The First Seed in the UK in October 2006. [24]
She continued writing and recording for other artists and gave birth to her daughter Aviela in September 2007. [4] She took some time out of the record industry to do Gospel/Inspirational music [26] but eventually returned to secular R&B in 2010 with a new song called "Circles" that was featured in the movie "King of Paper Chasin". [27] She also announced acting projects. [4]
In 2013, she teamed up with alternative R&B producer [28] Nyce Hitz to record new material. From October 29 to December 31, 2013, Bingham offered a music series entitled "Taste Tuesdays" consisting of the release through the online music magazine Singersroom, [29] of 10 unreleased songs, [30] most of them being exclusive songs not appearing on her 10-tracks mixtape "No Artificial Flavorz" that she released subsequently, on January 7, 2014, [31] promoted by singles "Cuffin" and "Can We Stay" (featuring Kardinal Offishall). [28] The same year Bingham was featured on Cam'ron's single "So Bad" with Nicki Minaj.
In April 2015, Bingham released the single "Hard to Love". [33]
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