Introduction

Introduction, The Introduction, Intro, or The Intro may refer to:

Intro (R&B group)

Intro is an American R&B trio from Brooklyn, New York City, New York. The trio consisted of members Jeff Sanders, Clinton "Buddy" Wike and lead singer/songwriter Kenny Greene. Intro released two albums (for Atlantic Records): 1993's Intro and their second album, 1995's New Life. The group had a string of US hits in the 1990s. The hits included the singles "Let Me Be The One", the Stevie Wonder cover "Ribbon in the Sky", "Funny How Time Flies" and their highest charting hit, "Come Inside".

Intro's Kenny Greene died from complications of AIDS in 2001. Intro recently emerged as a quintet consisting of Clinton "Buddy" Wike, Jeff Sanders, Ramon Adams and Eric Pruitt. Adams departed in 2014, with the group back down to its lineup as a trio. They are currently recording a new album to be released in 2015. The group released a new single in 2013 called "I Didn't Sleep With Her" and a new single "Lucky" in October 2014.

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Introduction (music)

In music, the introduction is a passage or section which opens a movement or a separate piece, preceding the theme or lyrics. In popular music this is often abbreviated as intro. The introduction establishes melodic, harmonic, and/or rhythmic material related to the main body of a piece.

Introductions may consist of an ostinato that is used in the following music, an important chord or progression that establishes the tonality and groove for the following music, or they may be important but disguised or out-of-context motivic or thematic material. As such the introduction may be the first statement of primary or other important material, may be related to but different from the primary or other important material, or may bear little relation to any other material.

A common introduction to a rubato ballad is a dominant seventh chord with fermata, Play  an introduction that works for many songs is the last four or eight measures of the song, Play  while a common introduction to the twelve-bar blues is a single chorus. Play 

Frenchie

Frenchie is a 1950 American film of the western genre, directed by Louis King and starring Shelley Winters, Joel McCrea and Marie Windsor. The plot is loosely based on the western Destry Rides Again.

Plot

Frank Dawson is killed in the town of Bottleneck by his double-crossing partner Jack Lambert, leaving a young girl without a father. For the next 15 years, she lives in orphanages and works for the Fontaines, originally from Paris, earning her the nickname "Frenchie."

Now grown, she makes a fortune running a casino in New Orleans, then returns to Bottleneck to finally try to find her father's killer. She buys the casino the Scarlet Angel but learns that sheriff Tom Banning has cleaned up the town, forcing gamblers to go to nearby Chuckaluck, where the man in charge is Lambert.

Frenchie gets in touch with Lance Cole, a man who helped her in New Orleans, and asks him to come to Bottleneck to run the Scarlet Angel with her. Lambert's gambling interests are threatened, so he plans to ambush Cole's stage. Tom intervenes and prevents bloodshed.

Raggasonic

Raggasonic are a French ragga group composed of Big Red (born Stéphane Joaquim), Daddy Mory (born Mory Samaké) and Frenchie

They were discovered after the compilation Rapattitude was released in the early 1990s. Two official albums were released by Raggasonic: Raggasonic (1995) and Raggasonic 2 (1997), both produced by Frenchie.

The two members of Raggasonic, Big Red and Daddy Mory each pursuing solo careers. In 2012 they came back with a new compilation Raggasonic 3.

In popular culture

Their hit "Sors avec ton gun" was released in 1995 in conjunction with the cult French film La Haine directed by Matthieu Kassovitz.

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Frenchie (rapper)

Greg Hogan (born May 15, 1985) better known by his stage name Frenchie (also known as Lil Frenchie or Frenchie BSM) is an American rapper from Queens, New York. He is best known as one of the original members of Gucci Mane's So Icey Entertainment, 1017 Brick Squad, and Waka Flocka's Brick Squad Monopoly. Growing up Frenchie frequently traveled back and forth between New York and Atlanta where he has family, before signing with manager Debra Antney. Frenchie is also credited for introducing fellow New York artists Nicki Minaj and French Montana to Debra's Mizay Entertainment before their mainstream breakouts. He released his debut mixtape in 2009.

Early life

Greg Hogan was born and raised in South Jamaica, Queens in New York City. He spent much of his life travelling back and forth between New York and Atlanta, where he has family including cousin/aunt Debra Antney and her sons Waka Flocka Flame and Wooh Da Kid. The cousins had lived in South Jamaica before moving to Atlanta in the mid 90's. He also grew up with childhood friend Lloyd Banks, and his neighbors included other members who founded G-Unit namely Tony Yayo and 50 Cent. According to interviews, Hogan's father Big Frenchie was a notable gangster and drug dealer in the borough in the early 90's, whom 50 Cent has referenced and idolized in his earlier work most notably on "50 Bars" and "Ghetto Quran". Hogan wanted to become a rapper having been inspired after watching Kris Kross' song "Jump" on Video Music Box at an early age. He is of Guyanese ancestry.