Lumidee
She signed with Universal Records, where she released her debut album
called Almost Famous on June 23, 2003. Her single peaked at number 3 in
the U.S. and number 2 in the UK, but it was her only hit until the 2007
release of "She's Like The Wind." According to Nielsen SoundScan,
Almost Famous sold 276,000 copies in the U.S.
For the next few years, Lumidee was not in the mainstream music
industry in the US, instead veering more towards reggaeton and
dancehall music. After her hit single "Never Leave You" faded, Lumidee
went overseas to continue her musical career in Belgium, Germany,
France and The Netherlands etc.. in 2004 She released a feat single
"sintelo" with reggaeton artist Sir Speedy witch peak #1 in France &
she also release "Grimey Streets" in which was a mixtape consisting of
new material, freestyles and tracks from Almost Famous. Lumidee was
also featured on several tracks in this era, having moderate success in
Europe.
In 2006, Lumidee released a song for the FIFA World Cup album
soundtrack entitled "Dance!". It featured a sample of the Whitney
Houston track, "I Wanna Dance With Somebody." The song was a club hit
in the most of Europe, successfully entering the charts in the
countries where it was officially released.
2007: Unexpected
For the New York branch, Cedeño was named youth ambassador of the
Arthritis Foundation’s arthritis walk in 2007.[5] On April 17, she
released her second album called Unexpected,[6] which was released
under TVT Records. In an interview with Vibe Magazine, Lumidee spoke
about signing with TVT Records stating, "TVT Records is the perfect way
for me to come back and again I'm coming out of left field, just like
with Never Leave You. Nobody ever thought of me coming back on a street
credible label like TVT ... Actually, nobody ever thought of me really
even coming back, period."[7] The U.S. single, "She's Like the Wind",
peaked at 43, but it was not released in Europe. There, the label
released the single "Crazy" featuring Pitbull which had moderate chart
success in Germany, Austria and the UK. Lumidee made an appearance on
MTV Cribs, showing her New Jersey home, which aired on August 6, 2007.
2009-Present
On May 13, 2009, Lumidee released a mixtape called I'm Up, Vol. 1 from
her label, Logy Music Entertainment.[9] In late 2009, Lumidee worked on
another mixtape entitled Luminadee, which was released exclusively on
Coast2CoastMixtapes.com in early January 2010.[10]
In 2010 Lumidee started her Own Digital Label (LOGY MUSIC ENT) she
signed two artist Willis Brook ,Chase Manhattan .in 2010 she also team
up with House works / Ministry sounds and release the new single "i'm
No superstar" witch hit top 10 on itunes charts for 4 months in Germany
& Austria .she has a New single with France most selling rap artist
Rohff on his new album "la cuneta" single called "la cuneta" . in 2010
she team up with New jersey artist Chad b & hardroc records and singed
the new single "hit it'' to her digital label (LOGY MUSIC ENT) witch is
Currently getting played heavy on New York hottest stations HOT 97fm &
POWER 105.1fm "hit it" video on worldstarhiphop.com .
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