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Shiré
12+ albums
r&bsoulrnbfemale vocalists00s
about
A native of the tough city of Baltimore, MD, Talia "Shiré" Burgess always knew that she would someday be a star. She began singing and dancing at the tender age of 7, however, oddly enough singing was not her first love. She loved the theatre and began acting in numerous school plays. She competed in the state competitions for the Arts and for three years in a row she won the award for The Best Theatrical Performance. Then one day while still in high school she met R&B mega-star "Sisqo" of the the group "Dru Hill". Sisqo always wanted to create a female version of Dru-Hill so he formed a girl group around Shiré and named the group Lovher. He signed them to his production company and quickly signed them to a deal with Def Soul/Def Jam Records as the first female group ever on that label. Shiré and Lovher were quickly thrusted into the music world. Still as an impressionable teenager and barely out of high school, Shiré (at the time known as "Chinky") got her first brush with stardom when she did a duet with Sisqo and he put it on Dru-Hill’s second album. He took the group on tour with him and they performed with him on national television shows like TRL and the 1st Annual BET Awards. Then in 2003, without ever even officially releasing an album, Shiré had a memorable performance at the nationally televised Lady of Soul Awards. In that same year she had a Single and Video on the soundtrack for the Box Office Movie Smash "Rush Hour 2", entitled "How's It Gonna Be". She was feat
