Ambersunshower

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Biography

Alternative soul artist Ambersunshower first emerged as one half of the rap duo Groove Garden, best known for their 1992 underground hit "You're Not Coming Home"; after touring as the opener for Digable Planets, the group dissolved, and she temporarily left the music business to work in her ailing grandfather's restaurant. Upon signing to the Gee Street label, Ambersunshower (her real first name) began moving away from rap toward contemporary soul-funk; her debut solo LP, Walter T. Smith, appeared in 1996. ~ Jason Ankeny, Rovi
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Ambersunshower
Birth name Ambersunshower Nadine Miligros Villenuevo Smith
Origin United States
Genres R&B, hip hop
Occupations Musician
Instruments Singing
Labels Gee Street/Island/PolyGram Records
Shamalama Music
Associated acts Groove Garden

Ambersunshower (born Ambersunshower Nadine Miligros Villenuevo Smith[1]) is an R&B singer and former member of the hip hop duo Groove Garden. Gee Street Records released Ambersunshower's debut solo album, Walter T. Smith, in 1996. A single from the album, "Running Song", later appeared on the soundtrack album from the film The Great White Hype, while another song, "Look Around My Window", was included on the Senseless soundtrack. In 2001, she appeared on Tricky's album Blowback, singing on the tracks "Over Me", "You Don't Wanna" and "Your Name". Ambersunshower later returned with a second album, The Turtle Chronicles, released by Shamalama Music on April 17, 2008. That same month, Ambersunshower collabortated with Kenny Baraka on a single entitled "Mortal Deities", the video for which was filmed on location in Brooklyn by Carl Ford for Black Nexxus Films.

Ambersunshower is the daughter[citation needed] of actress, writer, and experimental theater director Laurie Carlos (née Smith), one of the original cast members of the Broadway production of Ntozake Shange's For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf.

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Discography (as solo artist)

Album

  • Walter T. Smith, 1996
  • The Turtle Chronicles, 2008

Singles

  • "Walter T.", 1996
  • "Running Song", 1997
  • "Rhythm Child", 1997

References

  1. ^ "Ambersunshower's Biography". Peeps Republic. GetMusic. Archived from the original on 2001-01-11. http://web.archive.org/web/20010111055600/www.getmusic.com/peeps/amber/bio.html. Retrieved 2007-02-23. 

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Senseless (1998 Album by Original Soundtrack)
MTV's Amp 2 (album)
Blowback (album)
Shower (disambiguation)