Jagged Edge (group)
Jagged Edge is an American mainstream R&B group signed through Jermaine Dupri's So So Def Recordings. The group has had a number of hit singles, many of which are produced by Dupri. The group's members include identical twin lead singers Brandon and Brian Casey as well as Kyle Norman and Richard Wingo. In addition to writing the bulk of the group's material, the Casey brothers have also written for Usher, Nivea and Toni Braxton.
Wingo was a late addition to the group after the departure of an original member Al, he was added after Kandi Burruss of Xscape recommended he be added. Burruss was also the one who brought the group to the attention of Dupri, who signed them to his Columbia Records distributed imprint, So So Def Recordings.
History
1997–2000: A Jagged Era and J.E. Heartbreak
Jagged Edge began their mainstream recording career with the single "The Way That You Talk". They followed this in 1997 with the album, A Jagged Era which managed to go gold featuring the singles "I Gotta Be" and "The Way That You Talk". "I Gotta Be" which was written by the twins, reached #11 on the R&B charts and #23 on the Hot 100.
Jagged Edge
Jagged Edge may refer to:
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Jagged Edge (film)
Jagged Edge is a 1985 American film starring Glenn Close, Jeff Bridges, and Peter Coyote. It is a courtroom thriller, written by Joe Eszterhas and directed by Richard Marquand. Robert Loggia was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role.
Plot
An intruder in a black mask and clothing ties up San Francisco socialite Page Forrester at her remote beach house, kills her with a jagged-edged hunting knife, and writes the word "Bitch" on the wall with her blood. Her husband Jack (Bridges) later recovers in a clinic with a bloody head wound, claiming to have been knocked unconscious and awoken to find Page's body. After Page's funeral, Jack is arrested by DA Thomas Krasny for her murder, based on evidence that includes a witness at a club who saw a hunting knife in Jack's locker; medical suggestion that Jack's head wound was self-inflicted; Jack's fingerprints, which were found at the crime scene with Page's; and Jack's inheriting all of Page's corporate and personal assets in the event of her death. Forrester tries to hire high-profile lawyer Teddy Barnes to defend him after hearing of her high success rate, but Barnes used to work for Krasny and is reluctant to take the case, as she stopped working in criminal law after an incident with Krasny.
Jagged Edge (rock band)
Jagged Edge, also known as Jagged Edge UK in the US where there is an American R&B band with the same name, were a glam metal/rock band formed in London in 1987 by Myke Gray, former guitarist of the band Dorian Gray and briefly of UFO. The band went through numerous line-up changes before a somewhat stable line-up emerged. This line-up consisted of Gray, bassist Billy Kulke (former Chinatown, Persian Risk and Bronz), drummer Steve Hopgood and ex-Baby Tuckoo and Accept, vocalist Rob Armitage. The band toured with Ozzy Osbourne in the UK during June and July 1988.
However this line-up split before the band was signed to Polydor Records, and the band´s first EP, as well as the album Fuel for Your Soul, was recorded by the 1989 line-up of Gray, Swedish vocalist Matt Alfonzetti (ex-Bam Bam Boys), bassist Andy Robbins (ex-Tokyo Blade and Shogun and Italian drummer Fabio Del Rio who incidentally was a member of UFO shortly after Gray´s brief tenure. The line-up also included keyboardist Dave Rosingana who performed with Flashpoint, another rock band, not the Miami jazz ensemble.
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