Cheyenne feat. F.O.H. Half of Me (2000)
Aaliyah, Timbaland, Missy Elliott, 50 Cent, Destiny’s Child, Sean Paul. If you are in your 30s or 40s, odds are that you grew up on a musical diet of urban music: hip hop, rap, R’n’B. Even if you were a guitar-kinda-person back in your youth, it was hard not to know these names, and it’s fair to say that the music they produced shaped what would become one of the last pop phenomenons before streaming platforms and algorithms took control of most people’s taste in music. Most of the artists associated with urban music are from the US. However, it was a global phenomenon—not just on the listeners’ end, but also for the acts. A valid example of non-American urban music is Full Of Harmony aka F.O.H., a Japanese R’n’B trio that formed in 1997 and is active to this day. F.O.H.’s heyday is long gone, though. Around the turn of the millennium the trio was en vogue, with a handful of hot releases in their pocket. A highlight from back then is today’s song: “Half of Me”, a feature on fellow Japanese artist Cheyenne’s album A Thousand Miles Away that could easily take on material by TLC, Brandy and the like.
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