Unsung

702 shot to stardom in the mid 90’s with top ten hits and platinum album success. But personnel changes and jealousies led to their disbanding in 2003. After 15 years apart, they tell their story to Unsung.

702 shot to stardom in the mid 90’s with top ten hits and platinum album success. But personnel changes and jealousies led to their disbanding in 2003. This is TV One Shortcuts: Unsung The Story of 702 Fighting and Disrupting Destiny.

Serving hot sex on a platter, sultry singer Adina Howard became a star in the mid-1990s with the chart topping hit “Freak Like Me.” But after making unsavory comments about the head of her record label, Howard was all but blackballed from the industry.

For five decades and counting Betty Wright has brought the “real” to R&B, with a powerful voice and sassy delivery that produced over ten top twenty hits. But those songs reflected aspects of a harder life, as label troubles and family tragedy threatened to silence her voice.

Hailing from Toronto, Canada, Deborah Cox became a worldwide star in the late 90s when her breakthrough hit “Nobody’s Supposed To Be Here” took over the R&B charts for 14 weeks.

Michel’le stormed the music scene with a voice like no other, and scaled the charts with help from romantic attachments in high places. But that success came with a terrible cost, as a terrorized victim of domestic violence.

Lloyd became a hip hop heartthrob with hits like “Southside”, “Get It Shawty” & “You”. But his ties to the Murder Inc. record label nearly put an end to his career. This is TV One Shortcuts: Unsung The Story of Lloyd.

Christopher Williams, a singer and actor from the Bronx, emerged during the late 1980s with a string of new jack swing hits and a pretty boy look. But scandals and arrests would derail his career.

When their debut album produced four top singles, Dru Hill seemed destined for superstardom. But clashes with their label and each other all but derailed their career.

Glenn Jones lit up the airwaves in the late 80's and early 90's with love ballads that made women swoon. But he later battled financial woes, and a health crisis that imperiled his life.

Now that we traveled back in time to the golden era of R&B and Soul music, it's time we remember one of the best decades, the 80s! To see the beloved artists that'll keep the party going during the #Unsung15 anniversary marathon on Thanksgiving.

Alright y'all, it's time to travel back to the golden era of music, or what we know and call the decade of soul as we celebrate the 15th anniversary of #Unsung!