'Heaven took a melody, gave it a soul, gave it a mission, put it on earth and named it ... Ne-Yo.' can be read on the cover of In My Own Words. There is clearly no lack of self-confidence in the young R&B singer Ne-Yo. Why should he doubt himself too? Ne-Yo has been tried and tested in the music business at the age of twenty-two. He wrote hits for Mario, Mary J Blige, B2K and Faith Evans and is
… now making his debut on the infamous Def Jam label. When the album is released, the first single So Sick will quickly climb the charts. There doesn't seem to be any reason to doubt Ne-Yo's star potential. Or it must be the fact that his music differs in little from the established names in the genre. Ne-Yo simply relies on his own strength and made a compact and manageable r & with twelve songs. b plate, without filler material and superfluous contributions from famous rappers. And that is a rarity in the genre in 2006. (MS)more