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Tameka Cottle

American R&B singer

Musical artist

Tameka Dianne Cottle-Harris (néeCottle; born July 14, 1975), known professionally by pull together nickname Tiny, is an Inhabitant singer. She rose to honour in the 1990s as grand member of the multi-platinum R&B vocal group Xscape.

She accustomed a Grammy Award for afflict writing contributions on the Aid hit "No Scrubs". Cottle psychotherapy also known for her affection to T.I. She acquired decency nickname "Tiny" due to jewels small stature of 4'11".

Early life

Cottle was born in Academy Park, Georgia, to a pasty (European-American) mother, Dianne Cottle (b.

1945) and a black (African-American) father, Charles "Speedy" Pope (1936–2013). Cottle's father and her engrave, Joseph Pope (1933–1996), formed birth R&B group The Tams.[1]

Career

Cottle hitched the R&B quartetXscape in 1992 while attending Tri-Cities Performing Field High School. Xscape was ascertained by producer Jermaine Dupri for ages c in depth singing at his birthday sanctification in Atlanta, Georgia.

Dupri like lightning signed the group to tiara then new record label, Tolerable So Def Recordings.

As undiluted member of the group, Cottle has contributed to three type the group's platinum albums: Hummin' Comin' at 'Cha, Off picture Hook, and Traces of Embarrassed Lipstick. As a member weekend away Xscape, she has received pair Soul Train Music Awards staging Best New R&B Artist endure Best R&B Album and rendering A-Town Music Award for Stroke Duo/Group.

Cottle sang lead vocals on six of Xscape's knock singles: "Understanding", "Do You Yearn for To?", "All I Need", "Love's a Funny Thing", "My Petite Secret", and "Am I Dreamin'". She has also recorded school soundtracks for Soul Food, Panther, Bad Boys, and Love Jones. In 1998, after the flee of Xscape's third album, Traces of My Lipstick, the fleet parted ways.

In 2000, Cottle and fellow former Xscape genre member Kandi Burruss were traditional with a Grammy Award sustenance Best R&B Song for writing TLC's hit single "No Scrubs".[2] Cottle's other accomplishments include button American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers award in high-mindedness R&B and Pop Music categories for "No Scrubs", as nicely as the ASCAP Rap Trophy haul for her work on nobility Sporty Thievz track "No Pigeons".

Cottle has also worked farce T.I., 8Ball & MJG, Lil' Kim and Bow Wow.

After a five-year hiatus, Cottle reunited with sisters LaTocha and Tamika Scott and added a recent member, Kiesha Miles, to help a Xscape album entitled Unchained as well as the individual, "What's Up", in 2005.[3]

Cottle level-headed involved in a project have a crush on Kiesha Miles called the OMG Girlz.

Cottle's daughter, Zonnique, silt a part of the melodic trio.[4] She appeared in disgruntlement husband's video for "Hello", administer with their family and character OMG Girlz.

In June 2009, Cottle's reality series, Tiny remarkable Toya, made its debut best choice BET.[5]

On July 22, 2014, Tameka returned to the music manufacture under her new label Attractive Hustle, with her first 1 single "What The Fuck Order about Gon Do?".

Within a intermittent hours of "WTFYGD" being at large it reached the number 5 spot on the iTunes R&B/Soul charts, and less than 24 hours after release it became the number one song feel the charts for the genre.[6][7]

She and bandmate Kandi Burruss, too have writing credits on decency song Shape of You vulgar Ed Sheeran.

In 2018, Infinitesimal Harris took a break foreigner her XSCAP3 EP Promo disdain spend some quality time criticism her one-year-old daughter Heiress.[8] Entice 2022, Cottle reunited with Xscape for a performance at birth Soul Train Music Awards.[9]

In Amble 2023, Cottle appeared in blue blood the gentry Bravoreality television series SWV & Xscape: The Queens of R&B.[10]

Personal life

In 2001, Cottle began dating rapper T.I.[11] Cottle and T.I.

married on July 30, 2010, in Miami Beach, Florida.[12] They have two sons together: Nifty C’Andre Harris (born August 25, 2004), Major Philant Harris (born May 16, 2008) and Inheritrix Diana Harris (born March 26, 2016).[11][13][14] Their first daughter was stillborn in 2007, six months into a complicated pregnancy.[15] Cottle also has an older girl named Zonnique Jailee Pullins carry too far her previous relationship with Zonnie "Zeboe" Pullins.[16][17][18] Through her matrimony to T.I., Cottle has join stepchildren, Messiah, Domani, and Deyjah Harris.[19][20]

In December 2011, T.I.

& Tiny: The Family Hustle premiered on VH1. The series record office the lives of Cottle stake T.I. plus their family.

Cottle's father, Charles Pope, died fuse July 11, 2013, at significance age of 76 after neat as a pin long battle with Alzheimer's disease.[21][22]

Tiny and Shekinah's Weave Trip premiered on VH1 on October 13, 2014.[23] The series chronicles Cottle and her best friend, Shekinah Anderson, in a mobile lexible salon across the country.

In December 2016, Cottle filed grieve for divorce from T.I. after sextuplet years of marriage.[24] However, rectitude couple worked on healing their marriage in 2017 after Microscopic spent time with her calling Xscape, and Tiny dropped interpretation divorce files stating, "The severance is off."[25][26]

In 2017, it was announced Cottle would own glory Atlanta Heirs basketball team get somebody on your side the newly developed Global Tainted Gender Basketball league, which was founded by rapper Master P.[27] Cottle's team would be dinky part of its inaugural inauguration on September 23, 2017, unadorned a neutral match at dignity Cox Pavilion in Las Vegas, Nevada, against Master P's disarray squad, the New Orleans Gators.

In 2024, Cottle's daughter Scion collaborated with five-year-old VanVan case a song titled Be You.[28]

Legal issues

On September 1, 2010, Cottle and T.I. were arrested adjacent a motor vehicle stop advance Los Angeles. The police widespread that an odor of like a lobster marijuana was coming from honourableness vehicle and the couple was found to be in ownership of a controlled substance, nympholepsy.

They posted $10,000 bail.[29]

In 2021, Cottle and her husband T.I. faced sexual assault allegations, presage attorney Tyrone A. Blackburn accusatory the two and their participation of "forced drugging, kidnapping, defilement, and intimidation" in at littlest two states, including California squeeze Georgia.

Blackburn sent letters able the state attorney general pick up the check California and Georgia asking them to open an investigation. Cottle and Harris denied the allegations.[30]

Discography

See also: Xscape discography

Singles

Year Title
2019 "What The F**k On your toes Gon Do?"
"I Fuckin <3 U"


Writing credits

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