DONELL JONES LYRICS ALBUM SALES LICENSEUser-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License and may also be available under the GNU FDL. Jones is currently writing songs for Usher, Whitney Houston and Mariah Carey on their upcoming albums. Four years later, he released his fourth album, Journey Of A Gemini, which featured the Tim & Bob hit, "I'm Gonna Be", which became a big hit on Urban AC. In 2002, Jones released the gold-selling Life Goes On album, which featured the hits, "You Know That I Love You" and "Put Me Down" featuring Styles P. Other hits included "Shorty (Got Her Eyes On Me)" and "This Luv". The album yielded the number-one hits such as "U Know What's Up", which featured TLC member Lisa "Left-Eye" Lopes and the title track. It wasn't until 1999 however that Jones began to establish himself as a R&B hit maker with the album, Where I Wanna Be. In 1996, he signed with LaFace Records and released his debut album, My Heart, which included his hit cover of Stevie Wonder's 1976 ballad "Knocks Me Off My Feet". However, Jones was gaining notice as a writer penning songs for established R&B acts such as Usher, producing the singer's 1995 hit, "Think Of You", 702's "Get It Together" and also wrote for groups such as Brownstone and Silk. After a brush with death, Jones left the gang and focused on a music career forming the group Porscha. He struggled between wanting to be a musician and to be a member of a street gang. Told of the compliment, Jones replies, “Wow, I appreciate that.Donell Jones (born May 22, 1973) is an American R&B singer, songwriter and producer, most notable for the hits "U Know What's Up", "Where I Wanna Be" and his cover of Stevie Wonder's "Knocks Me Off My Feet".īorn in Chicago, Illinois, Jones' upbringing was rough. The singer recently told Billboard that he likens his latest chart-topping set, “Passion, Pain & Pleasure,” to Jones’ previous work. One admirer of Jones’ brand of smooth R&B is Trey Songz. Presently on a stateside promotional tour, Jones hopes fans old and new will continue to embrace his music. While he was out of the limelight, Jones continued creating heartfelt love songs that would make up the 13 tracks on “Lyrics.” These include “You Can Burn,” featuring the singer’s own artist, Breeze “The Finer Things in Life” and “All About the Sex.” Tracklist with lyrics of the album MY HEART 1996 of Donell Jones: In The Hood (Playas Version) - Knocks Me Off My Feet - No Interruptions - Waiting On You. “I wanted to make sure that when I came back with another album, my situation was correct and my music was on point,” Jones says. 7 Chiefly produced by Jones' himself, it debuted and peaked at number 28 on the US Billboard 200 and at number nine on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums, becoming his fourth entry on the latter chart. Besides launching his own label, Jones also signed with a new manager, Ruben Rodriguez of RAM Talent Group. Lyrics, Jones' fifth regular album, was released in September 2010 via Candyman and eOne Music. 8 on the Adult R&B airplay chart.Ĭhanges in his career plan kept Jones away for four years. Lead single “Love Like This” has so far reached No. 9 on Billboard’s Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart and at No. Issued on the singer’s own Candyman Music through eOne Music, the album bows at No. Born and raised in Chicago, Jones grew up in a musical household and showed at a young age an aptitude and an attitude for music. 28 release of his sixth studio set-the-matters-of-the-heart-driven “Lyrics”-it looks like people are getting it. An artist with the voice of an angel, but whose complex, heartfelt lyrics often expressed a hardscrabble life, Donell Jones shot like a meteor into the center of the R&B world in the 1990s.
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