
"Chocolate High" ( India.Arie featuring Musiq Soulchild) "Why Me" ( Ice Cube featuring Musiq Soulchild) "Break You Off" ( The Roots featuring Musiq Soulchild) Musiq has also been nominated for awards by MTV, The American Music Awards, the NAACP, and has had 11 Grammy nominations. He has received awards from Billboard, BET, the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers, BMI, and Soul Train. He made a special appearance on The CW's #1 comedy The Game on Monday, October 29, 2007, as well as the UPN sitcom All of Us. Outside of music, he has been featured in television and print ads for McDonald's, Nike, Inc., Coca-Cola, Levi Strauss & Co. He then recorded a remake of Arrested Development's song " People Everyday" with British rapper/singer Estelle for the soundtrack to Tyler Perry's Meet the Browns entitled "People Everyday (Metamorphosis Mix)".
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He also lent a song from his latest album Luvanmusiq to the soundtrack for Perry's later movie Why Did I Get Married?. Soulchild has also appeared on the soundtrack to Tyler Perry's movie Daddy's Little Girls and Ice Cube announced that Musiq will appear on his upcoming album, Raw Footage. He has also made guest appearances on rapper Lloyd Banks's album Rotten Apple, Talib Kweli's Eardrum, The Roots's Phrenology, Black Ice's The Death of Willie Lynch and pays tribute to soul music legends Earth Wind and Fire on the tribute album Interpretations: Celebrating the Music of Earth, Wind & Fire. Musiq Soulchild has featured on Nothing At All from Carlos Santana's album, Shaman. The first single is Anything featuring Swizz Beatz. His latest album Musiqinthemajiq was released on May 3, 2011, available on CDs and also as a digital download. In May 2010, he changed management to Victor Grieg. According to Hutson, the two plan to work together again. "SoBeautiful" marked the first collaboration between Musiq and the producer JR Hutson, after Hutson had spent "about eight months" trying to get Musiq to come by his studio. The following singles were the duet IfULeave featuring Mary J Blige and the ballad SoBeautiful. The lead single "Radio" was a complete contrast to the usual smooth soul and R&B Musiq fans were accustomed to. His fifth album OnMyRadio was released on December 2, 2008. Its singles were "B.U.D.D.Y.", "Teachme", and "Makeyouhappy". In March 2007, Musiq's released his fourth album Luvanmusiq. Musiq took a four year break and changed his management to Solqi Management as well as his record label from Def Soul to Atlantic Records. It included the singles "Forthenight" and "Whoknows". In 2003, Musiq released his 3rd album, Soulstar. The singles were "Halfcrazy" and "Dontchange". Musiq’s second album, 2002's Juslisen, debuted at number 1 on the Billboard Charts and went platinum. Musiq's second single "Love" spent 22 weeks on the Billboard Hot 100 charts. Its lead single was "Just Friends (Sunny)". Musiq Soulchild released his debut album, Aijuswanaseing, in 2000. It's basically me as an artist in this generation, representing the traditions and the legacies of the past soul stars." Career 'Musiq' is the front man and 'Soulchild' is the idea behind it. Musiq quotes it as, "Musiq Soulchild is technically two ideas. That's how much I dug it when you see me, I want you to automatically think of music." The nickname Soulchild came from two ideas. "There were people who knew of me but they didn't really know me they just knew me as 'that music dude.' So after getting that so much, I was like 'Just call me Musiq.' It was so fresh to me because if I had to be called anything, I would have wanted to be called Music. He has received awards from BillbMTV, American Music Awards, NAACP, and 11 Grammy nominations, including 3 for his 2007 album Luvanmusiq. Musiq Soulchild has had 2 platinum albums, 2 gold albums and 7 hit singles. Musiq has also earned award nominations from Moard, BET, ASCAP, BMI, and Soul Train. He cites as his inspiration such icons as Stevie Wonder, James Brown, Patti LaBelle, Billie Holiday, Sly & the Family Stone and Ray Charles.
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It was during that time Musiq started to build a reputation for being musically gifted, beat boxing for MC's, free styling on the open mic circuit, scatting at a jazz club, or just performing a cappella in the streets of Philadelphia, which is where he got the name "Musiq" and later added "Soulchild", which is intended to respect and represent the legacy and traditions of past soul artists. At an early age, Musiq decided he would discontinue his high school education, and left home at 17. Musiq was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and is the oldest of nine children.
