Jones is currently writing songs for Usher, Whitney H.
Four years later, he released his fourth album, Journey of a Gemini, which featured the Tim & Bob hit, I'm Gonna Be, which became a big hit on Urban AC. In 2002, Jones released the gold-selling Life Goes On album, which featured the hits, You Know That I Love You and Put Me Down featuring Styles P. Other hits included Shorty (Got Her Eyes on Me) and This Luv. The album yielded the number-one hits such as U Know What's Up, which featured TLC member Lisa Left-Eye Lopes and the title track. It wasn't until 1999 however that Jones began to establish himself as a R&B hit maker with the album, Where I Wanna Be.
In 1996, he signed with LaFace Records and released his debut album, My Heart, which included his hit cover of Stevie Wonder's 1976 ballad Knocks Me Off My Feet. However, Jones was gaining notice as a writer penning songs for established R&B acts such as Usher, producing the singer's 1995 hit, Think of You, 702's Get It Together and also wrote for groups such as Brownstone and Silk. After a brush with death, Jones left the gang and focused on a music career forming the group Porscha. He struggled between wanting to be a musician and to be a member of a street gang.
Donell Jones (born May 22, 1973) is an American R&B singer, songwriter and producer, most notable for the hits U Know What's Up, Where I Wanna Be and his cover of Stevie Wonder's Knocks Me Off My Feet.īorn in Chicago, Illinois, Jones' upbringing was rough.
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