SISTA(DEVANTE SWING) - SECRET ADMIRER(REARRANGED)

In the late-1980s, Missy Elliott, LaShawn Shellman, Chonita Coleman, and Radiah Scott formed an R&B group called Sista, for which Elliott served as a singer and songwriter. She recruited her neighborhood friend Timothy Mosley as the group's producer and began making demo tracks. In 1991, Sista caught the attention of Jodeci member/producer DeVante Swing by performing Jodeci songs acapella for him backstage after one of his group's concerts. In short order, Sista moved to New York City, now signed to Elektra Records through DeVante's Swing Mob imprint. Elliott took Mosley (whom DeVante re-christened Timbaland) and their friend Melvin "Magoo" Barcliff along with her. All 20-plus members of the Swing Mob, among them future stars such as Ginuwine, Playa, and Tweet, lived in a single two-story house in New York and were often at work on material both for Jodeci and for their own projects. While Elliott (credited as Melissa Elliott) wrote and rapped on Raven-Symoné's debut album's lead single "That's What Little Girls Are Made Of", she also contributed songwriting duties, credited and uncredited, to the final two Jodeci albums: 1993's Diary of a Mad Band and 1995's The Show, The After Party, The Hotel. Timbaland and DeVante produced a Sista LP, 4 All the Sistas Around the World, completed in 1994. Though videos were released for the original and remix versions of the single "Brand New," the album was shelved and never released. Sista then sadly went their separate ways. By 1995, Swing Mob had folded and many of its members dispersed; Elliott, Timbaland, Magoo, Ginuwine, and Playa remained together and collaborated on each others' records for the rest of the decade. This superb and extremely underrated album was a mix of 20 R&B and hip-hop flavors, segued together with skits and interludes. The highlight of the album is the searing ballad "Feel of Your Lips," which features surprise cameo appearances by Mary J. Blige and K-Ci Hailey of Jodeci.

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Music

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• SISTADEVANTE
• SWING
• SECRET
• ADMIRERREARRANGED

[SongCreator71]

DAVANTE IS VERY TALENTED

[mrbiggstuff25]

shit jammin!!

[Meandnotyou]

Do you have the regular Sista songs?