Harlemm Lee, "Bless My Soul Again" ('Fame' winner)

[George Tropicana]

Apparently, "Bless My Soul Again" went to Adult Contemporary stations on February 23rd.

www1.allaccess.com/sounds/harlbles.ram

It is the first single from Harlemm Lee, the winner of NBC's "Fame."

I guess when you're the winner of an "American Idol" rip-off, you end up signed with Wire, the label to Stevie Brock, Triple Image, and Jer-z. It's pretty embarassing.  :(

His debut album features a bunch of covers. Check out www.HarlemmLee.com for more info. The "Fame" runner-up Shannon Bex is also signed to Wire.

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Mineable1004 said:

It is the first single from Harlemm Lee, the winner of NBC's "Fame."

His album's been out since last fall and he already released his cover of "Get Here" and it flopped.

[George Tropicana]

Why would anyone play his cover when they can play Justin Guarini's? ???

[George Tropicana]

There's a little bit of interesting info here:
modelminority.com/article626.html

And lately she has other stars to look up to: Harlemm Lee won the singing and dancing reality television show, "Fame"; Jin Tha MC won Freestyle Friday on BET's "106 and Park"; Dat Phan won "Last Comic Standing"; and Jun Song swept "Big Brother 4."

But after his 15 minutes of fame, Lee's future is uncertain. "All my life, people have told me that I was unmarketable," says Lee, who's still struggling to come up with his own image. On his album cover he dons a cowboy hat -- although he doesn't sing country -- and on his poster he wears a leather jacket.

And although Lee won, he did not get the spot in the "Fame" musical as promised, and is doing a tour of Borders stores instead, singing to a soundtrack played on a laptop computer. Fans waited more than two hours for autographs at a stop at San Jose's Oakridge Mall in November. But Lee concedes that his only hope of a real tour is opening for another artist.

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My sister met "Jin"!

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Mineable1004 said:

His debut album features a bunch of covers. Check out www.HarlemmLee.com for more info. The "Fame" runner-up Shannon Bex is also signed to Wire.

Damn, I didn't realize how many covers were on the album.  I saw it at the store today and looked at it.  He has covers of Oleta Adams' "Get Here", Wham's "Careless Whisper", Jim Brickman's "Destiny", Jermaine Jackson's "Let's Get Serious", Whitney Houston's "Greatest Love Of All", Leo Sayer's "When I Need You" and "Tomorrow" from Annie.  Talk about overkill.

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I'm not feeling this.