In addition to its commercial success, the tune garnered four Grammy nominations. In the years since, the thong-loving singer has been unable to match the success of his first single. In fact, it sometimes seems as if he fell off the earth entirely. His first solo album, Unleash the Dragon , released in , gave us "Thong Song. In , he acted alongside Cuba Gooding Jr. The following year, he had a small role in the indie hit Pieces of April. In addition to his film roles, he also made appearances on several awards shows, talk shows, and reality shows.
Their daughter, KoKo, was born in He also has an older daughter from a previous relationship. He told Us Weekly :. I [proposed] kinda cool, because I felt like our son [Ryu] was the one that kinda saved [us] I sent him in with a ring box, and she looked into the box and didn't see anything She then went to look for me to figure out what's going on. She came around the corner, and I was [on] one knee, and I asked her, and she said "Yes!
Nope, not the bright lights of LA or New York. Not even his native Baltimore. The album dropped with barely a whisper, and sales were disappointing. They also filed a suit against KEG for unpaid royalties. Gray was a year-old African American man who died from injuries sustained while in police custody, and his death ignited protests throughout the city. The singer also challenged the media narrative of Baltimore as a violent city. Joe Jonas and Lil Wayne. David Bowie and Bing Crosby. The singer said that he was black-listed by mainstream music executives after he began to push back against politics within the industry.
According to SisQo, differences over collaborations and claims that he was hard to work with created rifts between himself and his label. Now, he hopes that the focus will return to the most important thing: the music. According to SisQo, his industry struggles led to the expansion of his independent label, Dragon Music Group.
Working together with his distribution company Massenburg Media — owned by former president of Motown Records, Kedar Massenburg — he now enjoys the freedom of being his own boss. Even though he's no rookie to the field, the soulful crooner says returning to the mainstream is no easy task.
So I've been doing the best I can to walk that line of creativity and trying to sell the music. Despite his success with Dru Hill and a multi-platinum solo career, the name SisQo is still most associated with the female undergarment he sung about in SisQo tells ABC that's fine with him, but now he aims to target new audiences while staying true to his brand.
If newly released singles indicate what to expect on the album, it can be called eclectic, if nothing else. The vocalist became a father for the second time when his son, Ryu, was born in , and his now grown-up daughter, Shaione, has come a long way from the little girl fans remember from the "Thong Song" music video.
Yet, his schedule for shows his determination to juggle family life and a career in entertainment.
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