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Sammie Biography
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Talk about the ultimate "How I Spent My Summer Vacation" back-to-school composition: For 12-year-old Sammie, "school's out" celebrations in June 1998 meant it was time for him and his mom to pack up and leave their Miami home for a six week stay in Atlanta. There in Atlanta Sammie completed recording his debut album with super hit making producer Dallas Austin and his team. "We've found a lot of singing kids," Austin says, "but the difference between a singing kid and a star is charisma, the nerve to do certain things that other people won't. It's a gift from God."
In fact, six weeks turned into ten weeks. Sammie's appeal lies as much in his disarming sense of humor - "He is hilarious," Austin says - as it does in his insatiable curiosity and drive, "His workmanship inside the studio is incredible," Austin adds.
Sammie's easy going personality is a quality that won Dallas Austin over. Anyone familiar with Austin's track record with young performers like Monica and Another Bad Creation, appreciates how songs like "Can't Let Go," "Crazy Things I Do," and the first single, "I Like It" all contribute to presenting Sammie as a 12-year-old with a 12-year-old's desires and confusions, joy and yearnings, and budding feelings of romance and heartbreak.
But amidst these titles - "Fell For Her," "Do It For You," "Catching Feelings," "Friend Like You" - there is a song dedicated to the city where Sammie grew up, "The Bottom." As Austin explains, "That's Miami of course, from the bottom to the top. Sammie was real adamant that Miami was supported on the record. So I wrote that song inspired by his connection in Miami."
"Sammie has a street appeal to him,'" Austin continues, "but at the same time his mom raised him well so he also has a very intelligent appeal linked to a supportive spiritual background. So, 'From the Bottom to the Top' was a very important theme for his album."
Although 'Sammie From Miami' was a headline that made its way into the Miami Herald and other newspapers during 1999, Sammie Bush was actually born in Boynton Beach, located in Palm Bach County, on March 1, 1987. His mom, former singer Angila Baxter, believes that "when I was singing in church, everything that went through my womb also went through him. He doesn't have any limits on the music he listens to - rap, R&B, gospel, jazz, he just loves music."
Sammie was raised in Boynton and Delray where his grandmother lives, and it was at the Church of Christ in Delray where, at age four, he experienced his first standing ovation for his delivery of "Troubles Don't Last Always" as a soloist.
He attended Pine Grove Elementary School in Delray for a year or so before Angila took him and his sister Krystal Tiara (four years younger) to live in the Brownsville section of Miami in 1993 (Sammie also has a three-year-old younger brother, Anthony Jordan.)
His talent caught the attention of a music teacher at Charles Drew Elementary in Liberty City, a magnet school with a performing arts program that Sammie transferred into at the start of third grade. His music training accelerated as he eagerly performed at almost every school program.
Along with Phillip? And Terrel? - two older boys from a Dade County junior high school - Sammie formed the Wonder3. The music teacher taped a rough-cut home video of them and submitted it to producers of the amateur and children's segment at "It's Showtime At the Apollo." The producer was struck by the group's performance and flew the boys in to New York for an audition in December 1997. Within weeks the producer decided to have Sammie return to New York for a solo performance on the kids of segment that aired in February 1998.
"I got a standing ovation and everything." Sammie says of his broadcast premiere. Not yet 11 years old, he won the semi-final competition singing "My Cherie Amour" by his favorite artist, Stevie Wonder.
Returning to the Finals in April, Sammi reprised "My Cherie Amour." This time, the winning notice came by way of a 2:00am phone call to Angila from Atlanta-based Joyce Irby. After two meetings with Angila and Sammie, Irby filmed new video footage. She showed it to her friend Dallas Austin. "I saw his appeal just from the tape," Austin said. Sammie received additional exposure when he performed (with a high school choir as the background) at the nationally televised "Teacher of the Year" awards held at Universal Studios in Orlando.
While Austin was working on a project in Nashville, he brought Sammie there to try out some tracks. "By the time he left," Austin said, "I had done three songs, because we worked so fast." By April-May 1999, Angila had been asked by Dallas Austin recording Projects (DARP) to plan a six-week leave of absence from her job as a Marketing Coordinator to start recording in Atlanta. The sessions continued for ten weeks. By the end of the summer with the album still not complete, Sammie and his mom returned to Florida for the new school year. Eager to finish the album, session time was booked at a local Miami studio in early fall of 1999, to finish the final vocal tracks for the album.
Meanwhile, "I'm learning a lot about the business and how it works and how people work. I consider myself blessed and very excited that I have this opportunity to share my music with the world." |
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Sammie your cool | Reviewer: Tyra(not Banks) | 2/23/2008Hi Sammie I am 10 and I just wanted to say I am a big fan.I have CD of when you were younger and I loved all the songs.My favorite is Bottom To The Top.It used to be I Like because I skipped to it the first time and I never heard number 1 but when we moved a found it wa year later I heard 1 first and loved.And I also love you should be my girl.Bye Sammie.
Chardona' | Reviewer: Chardona' | 1/23/2008
HEY SAMMIE... I KNOW SO MUCH ABOUT YOU. YOU ARE ONE OF MY FAVORITE SINGERS. IM TRYING OR SHOULD I SAY I AM GETTING INTO THE MUSIC INDUSTRY BECAUSE THATS SOMETHING I HAVE BEEN WANTING TO DO SINCE I WAS A YOUNG CHILD. IM FROM DETROIT, MI AND IM JUST TRYING TO MAKE IT HAPPEN. I MOVED TO CALIFORNIA WITH MY AUNT TO REACH MY DREAM ABOUT 7 OR 8 MONTHS AGO. JUST A QUESTION... HAVE YOU EVER WANTED SOMETHING SO BAD AND IT IS SO CLOSE YOU CAN ALMOST TASTE IT. THATS HOW IT IS FOR ME. IM MAKEING MY DREAMS A REALITY. I LOVE YOU SO MUCH AND I WISH ALL THE BLESSINGS AND SUCCESS OF THE UNIVERSE. PLEASE E-MAIL ME BACK
iI luv uuuuuuuuuuuuuu sammie | Reviewer: keia | 10/17/2007
WATS UP SAMMIE DIS YO MAIN GIRL KEIA I LUV U SO MUCH. THESE OTHA GIRLS IS NOT WERE ITS AT U IS MI ONE AND ONLY SO GET BACK AT YO GIRL U KNOW WHO I BE
hey sexy | Reviewer: merci | 8/28/2007
hey sexy,
sammie i missed you so much. everytyme i see u i go weak. oh my gosh, im so in love with u.i wish u could sing to me 4 my b-day.well,hope 2 see ya,
4rm yo wife merci
Hey Baby | Reviewer: Taylar Reed | 8/23/2007
Hey Sammie I Love you so much man when u came to milwaukee for jam 4 peace i fell in love with you i love you so much i got you saved on my phone as my screen saver and a whole lot more baby i love you and i will make a myspace to come to your page and talk 2 u im yo biggest fan and i love u more than anyone else and i mean it. i love you more than anyone of your other fans love you baby
Taylar Bush
let it ride | Reviewer: carissa | 7/16/2007
i just wanted to say hi and not to bore you for long. As a fan of yours since way back when, I took a liking to your admiration and ability to stay focused on your music, that break you to made you grow more of an artists and just continue to do good at what you do best, being SAMMIE.
I LOVE UUUUUUUUU SOOOO MUCH!!!! | Reviewer: Sheice | 7/9/2007
Hey Sammie this yo gurl Sherice I Love U So Much!
Hey sammie i love u so much sammie i was glad tha u had went to june 10th the only reason y i was gone go 2 june 10th was because of u but i didnt get 2 go and i was disapointed because i did not get to go but sammie if i was to every meet u in person face to face i would sing u your song Come Wit Me because i wouldnt want 2 leave u or i wouldnt want u 2 leave me... well Sammie i was writin u to tell u how i feel bout u..Sammie please write me back 2 show me some love..MUCH LOVE FROM YO #1 FAN SHERICE... I LOVE UUUUUUUUU!!!
i knew it | Reviewer: starr | 7/5/2007
i knew that you were going to come back who didnt know this is your mind your life you dream
hey whats up sexy? | Reviewer: Ericka87 | 6/15/2007
Hey whats up?
This your biggest fan.
I love all your music especially you should be my girl.
I should be your girl all day long baby.I think you should come to my house and surprise me because I love you so much I will die for you.Everytime someone says your ugly I tell them dont hate because you dont have everything he has and more because if anybody should be hating it should be you because you might wished that you could of had a regular life instead of always being away from your family and friends>this yo girl Ericka87@k@Shanelle:>)
i meet u once before but that was in 2001...my b-day wish iz too c u | Reviewer: nee nee | 6/12/2007
if i had only 1 wish it would be to met u...i remember the first time i meet u like it was yesterday. i wish u would come too 106&park on the 14 instead of the 13....that would be im wish come true
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