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NAME Tweet (a.k.a. Charlene Keys) ALBUM Southern Hummingbird (due April 2) WHY SHE'S A CONTENDER After supa-dupa mentor and old friend Missy Elliott recruited her to sing on four tracks from Miss E...So Addictive, impressed label execs asked Tweet to record her own album. The result is a silky hip-hop/soul hybrid, from the feminist lolling of debut single "Oops (Oh My)" to a sultry duet with Bilal, "Best Friend." FAMOUS FRIENDS Hitmaker Timbaland, another old friend, produced the album. With friends like these, who needs managers? WHERE SHE'S COMING FROM "I grew up in the church," says the 30-year-old Rochester, N.Y., native. "I would sit in the front pew and watch my mom and dad sing." But it wasn't all praise and worship: After six years in the girl group Sugah, Tweet was ready to give up on music--and life. "I got depressed....I tried to find a regular job and it didn't work out. I was feeling like I wanted to end my life," she says. "In the midst of that, Missy asked me to be on her album. I call her my guardian angel because she came to me at a time when I was headed for self-destruction."

Originally posted Jan 25, 2002 Published in issue #636-637 Jan 25, 2002 Order article reprints
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