Artist's albums
Saturday Night
1997 · album
Crush Remixes
1997 · single
Request Line Dance Remixes
1996 · single
Sending My Love
1994 · single
Groove Thang
1994 · single
Pronounced Jah-Nay
1994 · album
Vibe
1994 · single
Similar artists
Hi-Five
Artist
Montell Jordan
Artist
Jodeci
Artist
Al B. Sure!
Artist
Soul For Real
Artist
SWV
Artist
702
Artist
Changing Faces
Artist
Mint Condition
Artist
After 7
Artist
Case
Artist
Brownstone
Artist
Koffee Brown
Artist
Shai
Artist
Aaron Hall
Artist
Chanté Moore
Artist
Groove Theory
Artist
Monifah
Artist
Tony! Toni! Toné!
Artist
Biography
Given a high-profile spot on the all-star compilation Roll Wit tha Flava as their first recording opportunity, Zhané lived up to the pressure and came away with one of the R&B party anthems of the '90s, "Hey, Mr. DJ." Jean Norris and Renee Neufville met while both were studying music at Philadelphia's Temple University (Norris is originally from Rhode Island, Neufville from Brooklyn). After meeting Naughty by Nature's Kay Gee, Zhané impressed the producer enough to go right into the studio to record for Roll Wit tha Flava. When "Hey, Mr. DJ" was released as a single, it hit number six on the Billboard Hot 100 and earned the group a contract with Motown in 1994. Their debut album, Pronounced Jah-Nay, produced two additional Top 40 hits ("Groove Thang," "Sending My Love") and went gold by the end of the year. Zhané kept busy during 1995-1996 with spots on tracks by Busta Rhymes and De La Soul as well as new songs of their own on the NFL Jams and NBA 50th Anniversary compilations and the soundtracks to Higher Learning and A Low Down Dirty Shame -- the latter, "Shame," became their fourth Top 40 hit. Norris and Neufville returned with Saturday Night in April 1997, co-produced by Kay Gee, Eddie F., and themselves. It peaked just outside the Top 40. Two years later, the duo split. Baylor worked as a solo artist and with the group Free Day (alongside husband Marcus Baylor), and she also collaborated with Elisabeth Withers, Eric Roberson, and SWV. Neufville joined Roy Hargrove's RH Factor and recorded with the likes of Leela James, Terrence Howard, and Pete Rock. ~ John Bush, Rovi