

Most popular songs are 3:16 AM, The Worst, this song got a platinum for the RIAA. "It was really special for me and I'm just glad that he got to hear it," she told the site.In November 2013, she released her first work for Artium, the song was called Sail Out. On the day of his death, she played a touching tribute she penned for him called "For My Brother," according to. Sadly, in July 2012, Her 26-year-old brother Miyagi passed away after a 2-year battle with brain cancer. Her older sisters Miyoko and Jamila were in the R&B group Gyrl and toured with Immature. "I grew up in a household where my dad always wanted to be a songwriter and a singer, my sisters were in a group and my brother was singing, and so they're all supportive." Music runs in her family: "My family is very supportive because there's a lot of people in my family that do music," she told. After getting featured on Big Sean's "Beware" and Drake's "From Time," she later released her debut EP in November 2013, Sail Out, which debuted #1 on the R&B charts.Ĥ. Then, in 2012, she signed with Def Jam-ARTium Records and released the single, "3:16AM." The songstress went on to tour with Nas and Lauryn Hill that year on their "Life Is Good/Black Rage" Tour. The last few years have been big for Jhene: She released her comeback mixtape, Sailing Soul(s), in 2011, which featured collaborations with Drake, Kanye West and Gucci Mane, and went certified gold. "I have always been about getting work done but with a child, something needs to happen and she just put more passion as far as what I wanted to do with my music, what I wanted to sing about and my message."ģ. "She gave me the focus, the drive and the urgency to get something done," she told Complex. She's a mom: After getting pregnant by her ex-boyfriend, Omarion's R&B singer brother O'Ryan Omir Browner, she gave birth to their daughter Namiko on Novemat the age of 20. "They were willing to give me a deal along with the B2K deal and of course as a 13 year old, you agree."Ģ. "I was in school and it was this random opportunity," Aiko went on.

From there, she recorded over two hundred songs, was marketed as "Lil' Fizz's cousin" to try to launch her career, and served as B2K's opening act during their Scream Tour 3. She was 13 when she was signed to Epic Records, she told Complex, adding that it was a "piggy back deal" that was "thrown on me" because of her affiliation with B2K. They aren't actually related, but he was in a group with her oldest brother when she was seven, and they grew up together like family. She started her career known as "Lil Fizz's Cousin": Aiko was first introduced to the world via her appearances in B2K's music videos as group member Lil Fizz's cousin.
