
It debuted at number 20 on the Billboard 200, domestically selling over 10,000 copies in its first week of sales. Kelly’s “Trapped in the Closetâ€, entitled “Open the Closetâ€.His debut album, I Gotta Make It was released in July 2005 by Atlantic Records. While recording his debut album, Songz released mixtapes under the alias Prince of Virginia. After graduating from high school, Songz moved to New Jersey to begin his music career. Record producer Troy Taylor discovered Songz during a talent show, which led him to a record contract with Atlantic Records. Reluctant to sing, he began performing with encouragement by friends and family. Raised a military brat, he recognized his vocal abilities at the age of 14. Songz was born Tremaine Aldon Neverson on November 28, 1984, in Petersburg, Virginia. He also performs under the alias Trigga when he raps and is known as Songz 00711 while performing in the group Ocean's 7.

His latest album, Ready, was released in September 2009 and debuted at #3 on the Billboard 200, and his upcoming album Passion, Pain & Pleasure is expected to be released September 14. His second album, Trey Day, was released in 2007 and earned him a Grammy nomination. After releasing many mixtapes under the name Prince of Virginia he signed to Atlantic Records in 2005 and released his debut album I Gotta Make It. This story originally appeared in Los Angeles Times.Tremaine Aldon Neverson (born Novemin Petersburg, Virginia), better known by his stage name Trey Songz, is a Grammy award nominated American singer, producer and actor. The woman sued Neverson in August of that year, Pitchfork reported, but her attorney requested the case be dropped a few weeks later. Neverson was arrested on suspicion of domestic violence in March 2018 after allegedly punching and choking a woman in February at a Hollywood Hills party.

Also included in the sentence were anger-management classes and drug testing, per TMZ. He had originally been charged with felony assault of a police officer and misdemeanor assault of a photographer. In August 2017, Neverson got 18 months of probation after pleading guilty to two misdemeanor counts of disturbing the peace related to a violent outburst after he refused to end a 2016 concert in Detroit. Literally my last option was to hide because you all would not listen when I said I did not want to be in the video the FIRST time.” “After you found me in a closet HIDING because I was so afraid of anymore conflict. How am I in this video Trey?” Palmer wrote on Twitter back then, according to Billboard. The "Bottoms Up" singer has been accused of misconduct in the past but hasn't faced any legal repercussions beyond probation in an assault case where the charges ultimately were reduced.Įmmy-winning actor Keke Palmer accused Neverson of "sexual intimidation" in January 2017 after he allegedly secretly filmed her and without her permission put that footage into his video for a remix of the song "Pick Up the Phone." It reportedly was a refiling of a previous case - in which Jeffries was named as a "Jane Doe" - that according to the Daily Beast was near a settlement when the judge suddenly dismissed it based on a prior motion. In the court filing, reviewed by The Times, Jeffries alleges that she got a ride to a Miami nightclub with Neverson in the hours after a New Year's Eve party when they got to the club's VIP section, he inserted his fingers in her vagina without her permission while she was dancing on a couch.Īfter they left the club, the lawsuit alleges, Neverson and a member of his security team pulled Jeffries out of his car and threw her to the street on the way back from the club, injuring her.Īlso named in that case are Sean "Diddy" Combs, who hosted the New Year's Eve party that Neverson and Jeffries attended, and E11even nightclub. Mitchell, another attorney at Vrabeck Adams and Co., also filed a $20-million lawsuit in Florida on behalf of a woman named Jahuara Jeffries regarding an incident alleged to have happened in the early hours of New Year's Day 2018. Vrabeck said he had "been overwhelmed with support for Dylan and her courage."
