In 1989, he’d auditioned over the phone for Bobbi Humphrey, a jazz flute player and singer known for her work on Blue Note. When Campbell started working on I’m Ready late in 1992, he was still just 16, but was already feeling “a lot of pressure” to deliver a hit album. The two reconvened to work on four more songs that would end up on Campbell’s double-platinum second album, I’m Ready, including another hit, “Shhh.” It was a brief but successful partnership: Campbell appeared in the Graffiti Bridge film, a sequel to Purple Rain, and sang the Top 15 single “Round and Round,” a brittle track penned by Prince that split the difference between “Sign o’ the Times” and the New Jack Swing that was ascendant in 1990. To me, meeting Whitney would’ve been, ‘Aaaah!'”īut Campbell’s inability to to scrape the lower register didn’t stop him from working with Prince. “I knew who Prince was, of course, but at the time, I had a really, really, really high voice, so I didn’t pay attention to a lot of male artists - I couldn’t sing male artists’ songs. “I remember riding in the limo and talking to him over the phone,” Campbell says.
It was before he started going with Rashaan Patterson.At age 12, Tevin Campbell - freshly signed to Warner on the strength of a voice that was already drawing comparisons to Michael Jackson - hopped on a call with Prince. I remember this article and when it came out. It’s amazing what the celebrity lifestyle can do if you are not a grounded and wise person. I forget what song Tevin did on that, but it was his first, and it was off the hook. It was hard to read that having really looked at him as the next big star back in the day when Quicy’s Juke Joint album came out. The article was deep because he hit on some issues that were really tearing his life apart-drugs, the whatever-however sex, etc. He looked like all he’d been doing was drugs and having sex. He referred to himself as a freak, and the photos of him in the magazine were awful. He was raw and hardcore with his sexuality. He told her about his times on tour, when on the tour bus he would have sex with whomever (this meant female and male dancers), however and how-many-ever. Jamie Foster Brown did a VERY in-depth interview with Tevin Campbell about 3 years ago or so, and he told her some stuff that made my mouth drop open and my stomach turn. I don’t know if any of you are familiar with a magazine called Sister 2 Sister, it’s kinda cheesy, but the info in it is factual. The odds are that if you solicit a male prostitute you are probably gay. Man if Prince finds this out, I wonder how he's going to take it.
I'm taken aback by it by it,but I don't see anything about him being gay. What do you think of this story? You Tell Us
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The singer was arrested in a police sting outside of Van Nuys Elementary School in Los Angeles.Ĭampbell made his debut at the age of twelve when he sang on "Tomorrow (A Better You, Better Me)," from Quincy Jones' 1989 album, "Back On The Block." Soon after that, the artist then known as Prince invited Campbell to sing on the 1990 "Graffiti Bridge" soundtrack Campbell contributed "Round And Round." In 1991, Campbell released his debut album, "T.E.V.I.N."Ĭampbell's most recent release is his self-titled record (and his fourth album overall), which was released earlier this year.įor more on Tevin Campbell, check out the MTV News Archive He was ordered to return to court February 7 with proof that he has completed the drug rehabilitation and AIDS education requirements of his sentence. R&B singer Tevin Campbell was ordered to attend Narcotics Anonymous meetings and an AIDS awareness class after pleading no contest to soliciting a lewd act from an undercover policeman, according to the Associated Press.Īlso fined $1,080 Monday for the misdemeanor conviction stemming from his July 8 arrest.
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