| Jamelia Niela Davis made her breakthrough outside of Europe in 2003, when her single Superstar went top ten in multiple countries, including #1 in Australia and New Zealand. She was signed to Parlophone at the age of 15, after impressing record executives with self-written a cappella songs. In April 1999 Jamelia released her first single, So High, although it wasn't until her second single, I Do that she charted inside the official UK top 40 singles chart for the first time. In 2000, at age 18, she released her first album Drama, which peaked inside the UK top 40 albums chart at #39. The most successful single from the album was Money, featuring a guest vocal from Beenie Man which went top 5. She was nominated for five MOBO Awards in 2000, winning one. The album also spawned the successful follow-up single, Call Me and the final single, Boy Next Door, which peaked just outside the UK top 40. In autumn 2004 she was asked to contribute to the Band Aid 20 single Do They Know It's Christmas?. At the same time she released the theme song for the film Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason, Stop!, a Sam Brown cover, which became her fifth top 10 hit in the UK as a double A-side with the aforementioned DJ. The first single from the third album was R&B/rock fusion Something About You released on 11 September 2006, which had reached #9 in the UK Charts as of 24 September 2006. The second single is Beware of the Dog, which features a sample from Personal Jesus by Depeche Mode. The single will be released on December 4th 2006. Another track, "No More", features a sample from "Golden Brown" by The Stranglers. She also performed Beware of The Dog with Feeder at their London Cornet gig on the 9th November 2006.
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