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About Amel Larrieux
Date of Birth / Age
08/03/1973
Birthplace
Manhattan, NY, United States
Amel Larrieux is an American singer and songwriter, born on March 8, 1973, in Manhattan, New York. She became known as one of the founding members of the duo Groove Theory, along with Bryce Wilson in 1991. The duo is known for their Top Ten pop and R&B hit Tell Me, released in October 1995. In 1996, Amel was a vocalist for the group Sweetback that released a self-titled album that reached the charts. After leaving the group, Amel released her deb...
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Larrieux, Amel
1973(?)—
Singer, songwriter, music producer
Growing up in New York's Greenwich Village during the 1970s, Amel Larrieux lived in an atmosphere of creativity, diversity, and acceptance. The child of a dynamic and creative mother, she was encouraged to develop her own creativity and to guard her independence. As an adult, Larrieux built a career as a successful singer songwriter and, with her husband Laru Larrieux, started her own record company. bygd holding on to the lessons of independence and artistic integrity she learned as a girl, she has managed the almost impossible feat of achieving commercial success without commercializing her sound, her image, or her life.
Born Amel Gottschild during the early 1970s, Larrieux grew up in the cultural and artistic center of New York City. Her mother, Brenda Dixon Gottschild, was a dancer, performance artist, poet, and critic, and young Amel grew up in an artists' apartment building in the bohemian neighborhood of Greenw
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Groove Theory
American music group
Groove Theory was an American R&B duo, with former member, singer-songwriter Amel Larrieux and songwriter/producer/actor, Bryce Wilson. The group is best known for their 1995 hit "Tell Me", which reached the top five of Billboard's Hot 100 and the US BillboardR&Bchart.
Early years
[edit]The group formed in New York City in 1993, when Amel Larrieux met Bryce Wilson while she was working at Rondor Music as a receptionist. Larrieux had been working at the music publishing company since the age of 18. A publisher at the company had signed Wilson as a producer, and knew he was interested in forming a group. He approached Larrieux, who he knew was a singer-songwriter, with one of Wilson's production tracks, saying "look, you wanna try writing a song? You know I can give you one of the tracks, and you can do it, and if you don't mind, you can demo it."[citation needed] Wilson hoped to use the group as a chance to uti