Both pleaded guilty, but that wasn’t all shortly afterwards, DeVante’s house was robbed of over 160,000 dollars in jewelry and clothes as the singer was held with guns in his mouth and at the back of his head. The woman filed charges against the two, saying that K-Ci had threatened her and fondled her breast, while DeVante pointed a gun at her. The group’s troubles got worse in 1993 DeVante and K-Ci were involved in an incident with a woman K-Ci met at a club and brought back to DeVante’s apartment. It didn’t matter much, as Diary went platinum.
Dre’s Death Row Records, which resulted in almost zero promotion for their new album. A minor feud resulted over the band’s follow-up album, Diary of a Mad Band Jodeci, unhappy with their treatment by Uptown, flirted with the idea of leaving for Dr. In 1991, they recorded Forever My Lady, which featured the gold single “Come and Talk to Me” and went on to sell over three million copies. Harrell was impressed, and just like that, Jodeci signed a recording contract. They were almost rejected, but rapper Heavy D overheard the tape and talked Uptown president Andre Harrell into hearing the group. By the time they got to New York, they had demo recordings of 29 songs, which they brought to the offices of Uptown Entertainment. The two planned on going to New York to shop the demo around by themselves, but both K-Ci and Dalvin decided to tag along at the last minute. He returned to Charlotte, where he wrote a song and recorded JoJo singing it. The Hailey brothers and DeVante started hanging out together, partying and talking about making R&B records together, coming up with the name Jodeci at this time.Īt age 16, DeVante ran away to Minneapolis to get a job in Prince’s organization, but was refused. However, when they did meet, K-Ci was with a girl Dalvin had been dating, and a fight nearly broke out.
The boys were able to hear each other’s gospel songs played on the radio, and eventually were introduced through girlfriends as teenagers.
Natives of Charlotte, NC, all four members toured the South as young boys singing gospel music, even recording albums both families belonged to the Pentecostal church, and the DeGrates’ father was a minister. Made up of two sets of brothers, the group’s name is a consolidation of three members’ aliases: “JoJo” Hailey, Donald “DeVante Swing” DeGrate, and Cedric “K-Ci” Hailey the group also includes Dalvin DeGrate. If Boyz II Men are portrayed as a clean-cut, wholesome R&B vocal group, then Jodeci’s wild, sexual, bad-boy image represents the other side of the coin. The group’s name is a combination of the names of its members: Jo-Jo, DeVante and Dalvin, and K-Ci. The group consisted of two pairs of African-American brothers from Charlotte, North Carolina: the DeGrates (Donald “DeVante Swing” DeGrate, the group founder/leader, and Dalvin DeGrate) and the Haileys (main lead singer Cedric “K-Ci” Hailey and second lead singer Joel “Jo-Jo” Hailey). Jodeci was an American musical group, active from 1990 to 1996, whose repertoire included R&B, soul music, and new jack swing.
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