Singer Shir� is all too familiar with the feeling of her dreams slipping through the fateful hands of someone else�s fingers, after suffering a broken record deal when she was only a teenager. Shir� (pronounced �sha-ray�) was once a part of the first female group ever to be signed to Def Soul/Def Jam Records and made her debut on Dru-Hill�s second album on a duet with R&B singer, Sisqo. Both her group LovHer and Sisqo, the group�s founder, were later dropped from the label due to internal problems within. Shir� went on to feature on several platinum rap artist albums, such as DMX, Cam�ron and Method Man as well as a landing a single on the Rush Hour 2 soundtrack.
Rediscovered by Steve Rifkin and now signed to SRC/Universal Motown, Shir� is preparing her debut album Pickin� up Da Pieces, slated to be released early 2009, and is busy promoting her controversial single �Used To LovHer� as well as her just-released debut single “Movin’ On,” produced by Midi Mafia and J. “Supa” Stokes for Hot City Music Group.
Shir� speaks with Dubcnn as part of A Woman�s Touch, a special Dubcnn series created to shine light on some key players of the female gender who have shaken our world of hip-hop and urban music — and made it a better place. Oh yea � you�ve got to check her shoutout — she sang a lil something for Dubcnn.
A Woman’s Touch: The SHIR� Interview
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