Blackstar is the second album of American singer, Yahzarah

YahZarah

Dana Nicole Williams is an American singer. She is commonly known by her stage name, Yahzarah or Purple St. James.Yahzarah rose to fame when she became a back-up singer for Erykah Badu in 2000. In 2001, Yahzarah signed to Keo Music Records released her first album, Hear Me...

. The album was released on September 23, 2003.

Recording

Yahzarah began the new recording sessions for the album in 2002. She worked with musical producers Eric "88 Fingers" Parham, Chip Shearin, Eccentric, Sol Messiah, Kenisha Pratt, Madia Logan, Bob Baldwin, Phonte Coleman, Black Beat, Khalifani, G. Murdock, and J. Kennedy. The album features R&B songs with hip-hop

Hip hop music

Hip hop music, also called hip-hop, rap music or hip-hop music, is a musical genre consisting of a stylized rhythmic music that commonly accompanies rapping, a rhythmic and rhyming speech that is chanted...

 and reggae

Reggae

Reggae is a music genre first developed in Jamaica in the late 1960s. While sometimes used in a broader sense to refer to most types of Jamaican music, the term reggae more properly denotes a particular music style that originated following on the development of ska and rocksteady.Reggae is based...

 influenced elements. The album also features eight returning songs from her previous album "Hear Me" which were re-recorded and seven newly recorded material.

Promotion

The album's lead single "Wishing" was released to radio stations in August 2003. A music video aired on BET's 106 & Park: BET's Top 10 Live. The song "Blackstar" was released as the album's second single. The song "One Day" followed as the album's third single.

Commercial Success

The album charted at #44 after spending 12 weeks on the Billboard

Billboard (magazine)

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's Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums

Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums

Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums is a chart published by Billboard magazine that ranks R&B and hip hop albums based on sales compiled by Nielsen SoundScan. The name of the chart was changed from Top R&B Albums in 1999...

 chart and #37 on the Top Independent albums chart.

Track listing

1. "Yah Intro"
2. "One Day"
3. "Wishing"
4. "Nova
5. "So Amazing"
6. "Cry"
7. "Love Is You"
8. "Blackstar"
9. "Feel Me"
10. "Rooftop"
11. "Same Page"
12. "Bury It"
13. "Baby"
14. "Friday"
15. "Babylove"
16. "Blackstar (Remix)"