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Keri Lynn Hilson is an American singer, songwriter, actress and record producer born and raised in Decatur, Georgia. She spent most of her youth working with producer Anthony Dent as a songwriter and background vocalist for several R&B and hip hop artists, and wrote songs for artists including Britney Spears and Mary J. Blige with the production and songwriting team The Clutch. In 2006 she signed with Timbaland's record label, Mosley Music, and her breakthrough came in 2007 on Timbaland's single “The Way I Are”. This page collects the fashion blog coverage of what she has been wearing.
Keri Lynn Hilson is an American singer, songwriter, actress and record producer. She was born and raised in Decatur, Georgia, and spent most of her youth working with producer Anthony Dent, as a songwriter and background vocalist for several R&B and hip hop artists. By the age of 14, Hilson had secured a record deal with the girl group D'Signe, who later disbanded. She attended Oxford College of Emory University and Emory University in Atlanta, while she continued writing songs for artists, including Britney Spears and Mary J. Blige, with the production and songwriting team, The Clutch. In 2006, Hilson signed with American rapper and producer Timbaland's record label, Mosley Music. Her breakthrough came the following year after appearing on Timbaland's single "The Way I Are", which topped charts around the world.
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The Songwriter Behind the Scenes Who Stepped in Front
Keri Hilson's biography is a behind-the-scenes career that turned into a performing one, and each stage is marked. Born and raised in Decatur, Georgia, she spent most of her youth working with producer Anthony Dent as a songwriter and background vocalist for several R&B and hip hop artists — the apprenticeship roles of the recording industry, where the work is essential and the face is not the product. A first step toward the front came early: by 14 she had a record deal with the girl group D'Signe, who later disbanded. The writing career continued through education — Oxford College of Emory University and Emory University in Atlanta — and into professional songwriting for other stars, including Britney Spears and Mary J. Blige, as part of the production and songwriting team The Clutch. Writing for performers of that scale means writing for artists whose visual presentation is as managed as their sound, a useful education for someone who would soon be presented herself.
The turn came in two steps: signing with rapper and producer Timbaland's label, Mosley Music, in 2006, and the breakthrough the following year as the featured voice on Timbaland's single “The Way I Are”, which topped charts around the world. A featured breakthrough of that size introduces a new artist to a global audience inside someone else's hit — the voice is heard everywhere at once — and the biography's four-part description of her, singer, songwriter, actress and record producer, records the widened career that followed from it. For fashion coverage, a songwriter-turned-singer is a subject whose public dressing starts at the breakthrough moment and builds from there, and the blog search on this page gathers the Apparel Search posts that follow what she has been wearing since.
Resources on This Page
The resource list is among the fullest in the K group: the blog search, her own website, Instagram, Twitter and Facebook accounts, Wikipedia and IMDb references, and a YouTube link. In the K index she files between Kendall Jenner and Kerry Washington — a model, a singer-songwriter and an actress in sequence — and her page is the letter's clearest example of the writer-first career, the counterpart in music to Jennifer Westfeldt's writer-first page under J.
Common Questions
How did Keri Hilson start in the music business?
Born and raised in Decatur, Georgia, she spent most of her youth working with producer Anthony Dent as a songwriter and background vocalist for several R&B and hip hop artists. By 14 she had secured a record deal with the girl group D'Signe, who later disbanded.
For which artists did Keri Hilson write songs?
While attending Oxford College of Emory University and Emory University in Atlanta, she wrote songs for artists including Britney Spears and Mary J. Blige, working with the production and songwriting team The Clutch.
What was Keri Hilson's breakthrough?
She signed with Timbaland's record label Mosley Music in 2006, and her breakthrough came the following year after appearing on Timbaland's single “The Way I Are”, which topped charts around the world.