Education
She attended Lee University, for her collegiate studies.
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Alicia Myers
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Career
Her first solo release, Alicia, was released in 1981 with Master of Computer Applications Records, and it was her breakthrough release upon the Billboard magazine charts, placing on the Rhythm & Blues Albums. The subsequent album, Alicia Again, released the same year, yet this failed to place on any Billboard charts. She release, I Fooled You This Time, the subsequent year, and it charted on the Billboard Rhythm & Blues Albums chart.
The 1984 release, I Appreciate, placed on the aforementioned chart alongside a charting on The Billboard 200.
Her last album, Don"t Stop What You"re Doin", was released in 1986 by Universal Special Products, however it did not chart. They competed in a local talent competition in April 1968 at Detroit"s Martin Luther King Junior., High School, where they sung, "Ain"t Nothing Like the Real Thing", a song by Marvin Gaye and Tammy Terrell, and they were awarded first place.
She is a survivor of childhood tuberculosis, and later survived breast cancer. 41. The album contains the Rhythm & Blues hit "I Want To Thank You".
While her next release, Alicia Again, failed to chart that was released the same year.
Her subsequent album, I Fooled You This Time, was released in 1982 by the same label, and it charted even better on the aforementioned chart at Number. 27. The fourth album, I Appreciate, was released by Master of Computer Applications Records in 1984, which it charted on the aforementioned chart at Number. 12, while placing upon The Billboard 200 at Number.
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Her last release by Universal Special Products, Don"t Stop What You"re Doin", was released in 1986, yet this did not chart. Myers" song "I Want to Thank You" was sampled by Mariah Carey on the song Make lieutenant Happen from her 1991 album Emotions and by East-40 in his song "I Wanna Thank You" featuring Suga-T, taken from his 1996 album Tha Hall of Game. Also, Busta Rhymes and Q-Tip sampled the song for Busta"s "Thank You" in 2013.
