The 90s R&B crooner was once quite famous in the 90s and early 2000s, especially amongst the ladies. Apart from surviving a bullet going through his neck, he additionally gave Beyoncé her first starring function in his track video.
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Case Woodard, identified simply as Case, used to be a fan favorite together with his soulful voice and remarkable lyrics. He had hit singles like “Touch Me, Tease Me,” “Missing You,” and “Happily Ever After” the place he featured Beyoncé.
Much of Case’s recognition additionally came from his singles being featured as movie soundtracks. The 42-year-old usually had a excellent run till around 2006 when he parted techniques together with his document label at the time, Def Jam.
Narrating his scenario at the time, Case said:
“I recorded a couple more songs with them and then we started to have too many problems. I noticed the writing on the wall, so I determined to go away Def Jam. As you recognize, that’s now not a very easy thing to do – all the prison wrangling. …I had to determine what the subsequent move was going to be and I wasn’t sure if that used to be to go to any other primary label or cross impartial. I wasn’t somewhat certain precisely what I was going to do.”
The label stalled the free up of his album for just about two years, resulting in an uncongenial combat. He eventually launched the album, “The Rose Experience” in 2009 under an unbiased label.
In an interview with Kiss FM, the “Shook Up” singer additionally explained why he have been off the song scene for a very long time. He spoke about the time he shot himself in the throat:
“Originally I was going to take time without work to spend time with the family; with the children, and moved right down to Atlanta to be nearer to them. During that point I had got to work on the album, doing little issues here and there just trying to put all the items together. Then, I had an twist of fate in ’02 where I by chance shot myself in the throat, in order that put things on cling for a minute.”
He also revealed on TV One’s “Unsung” that the gunshot used to be fired all the way through an argument with a girlfriend. Case is now married to the mom of his 3rd kid and is now living in Atlanta to be nearer to his different two kids from a previous relationship.
Watch Case discuss where he's been a lot of these years:
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