When you said it, I’m smiling again.ĪHHA: The original release featured the song “Hypothetically” with Erin and then was re-released with Fantasia on the track. And being how the album went platinum the album had been out a year before it really caught on. Lyfe: I was glad, especially in this day and time with albums that are going platinum. How does it feel it to finally have taken off? I think everybody’s come back thru the fire, either in good times or bad times.ĪHHA: Your debut album was out a year before it went platinum. Lyfe Jennings: My son’s name is Phoenix and then the bird Phoenix, re-incarnated the fire. We met up with Lyfe to discuss his rise to success and his place in the mainstream music arena.Ī Alternatives: Where did you get the title from? With the upcoming release of his second album, Phoenix, Lyfe Jennings is ready to go back through the fire to reincarnate both himself and the R&B music scene. Despite unusual challenges, Lyfe Jennings bucked the system, bringing a new style to the mainstream with his slow-burning Platinum debut album, Lyfe 268-192.Īfter his release from prison, Lyfe could have taken the obvious route of a gangsta, but instead choose to speak volumes through music with genuine, conscious lyrics. No school or work the next day.Check out the EXCLUSIVE acapella performance of Lyfe’s new single “S-E-X” on AHHA!Ī stint in jail, an overnight trip to Apollo for a five-win streak and a debut album that was once dropped by the label is not the typical path of an R&B artist. Get intimate with Lyfe Jennings Sunday Oct, 8th. A year after its original release, the album was reissued with a new version of "Hypothetically," featuring American Idol winner Fantasia added as a bonus track. Columbia had the right offer and released his debut, Lyfe 268-192 (his inmate number), in August 2004. Lyfe figured he'd sold 1,000 copies of his four-song demo CD during his Apollo "residency." That, along with a ton of calls from promoters and record label execs on his answering machine back in Ohio, influenced Lyfe to move to New York City and pursue a major-label deal.
He was booed when he walked on-stage with an acoustic guitar, but when the Apollo audience heard his gritty falsetto and lyrical songwriting, they were swayed - swayed to the tune of five amateur-night victories in a row. He had only a month of freedom before he was on-stage at the famous Apollo. The day after that, he was performing live in a club. wo days after his December 2002 release from prison, he recorded a four-song demo CD. Prison made his music deeper, according to Lyfe, and when a copy of Erykah Badu's Baduizm ended up in his cell in 1997, he was inspired and had the feeling that this introspective edge to his music was worth developing. Not that he'd wish it on anyone, but it was during his ten-year sentence in prison that Lyfe Jennings developed his honest sound, thanks to isolation and Erykah Badu.
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