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Members
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Marsha Ambrosius (A.K.A. The Songstress) (Born in Liverpool, England)
Natalie Stewart (A.K.A. The Floacist) (Born in London, England)

~Final Tour Replacement~
Amanda Diva (Born Amanda Seales, July 1, 1981 in Los Angeles, CA)

Floetry

Albums
Floetry - Floetic
Floetry - Flo'Ology
Marsha Ambrosius - Late Nights & Early Mornings
The Floacist - Floetic Soul

Mixtapes
Marsha Ambrosius - Neo Soul Is Dead: The Chronic Mixtape
Marsha Ambrosius - Yours Truly
Amanda Diva - Spandex, Rhymes & Soul

Singles
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Also Featured On...
André 3000 - 3 Stacks (Marsha Ambrosius)
David Banner & 9th Wonder - Death Of A Pop Star (Marsha Ambrosius)
Barbershop 2: Back In Business
Busta Rhymes - The Big Bang (Marsha)
Raheem DeVaughn - Love Behind The Melody
DJ Green Lantern, Russell Simmons & Barack Obama - Yes, We Can (Amanda Diva)
Hip-Hop Docktrine Two: The Official Boondock Mixtape Disc 1ne (Amanda Diva)
Fabolous - Loso's Way (Marsha)
Lupe Fiasco - It Was Written (Amanda Diva)
Jamie Foxx - Intuition (Marsha)
Freeway - Free At Last (Marsha)
G.O.O.D. Music: Cruel Summer (Marsha)
The Game - The Documentary (Marsha)
The Game - Doctor's Advocate (Marsha)
Game - Purp & Patrón: The Hangover (Marsha)
Hi-Tek - Hi-Teknology˛: The Chip (Marsha)
N.O.R.E. - Crack On Steroids (Amanda Diva)
Nas - Hip Hop Is Dead (Marsha)
Nas - It's Still Written (Marsha)
Q-Tip - The Renaissance (Amanda Diva)
Queen Latifah - Persona (Marsha)
Reflection Eternal - The Re:Union (Marsha)
Saigon - The Greatest Story Never Told (Marsha)
Slum Village - Villa Manifesto E.P. (Marsha)
Angie Stone - Stone Love
Strong Arm Steady - Arms & Hammers (Marsha)
Styles P - Time Is Money
Tupac Amaru Shakur - Legend: 40 Years And Still Ballin' (Marsha)
Wale - Attention Deficit (Marsha)

Bio From AllMusic.Com
Marsha Ambrosius and Natalie Stewart are the funky divas behind the neo-soul duo Floetry. Ambrosius and Stewart emerged in the mid-'90s as songwriters in demand. They're behind some of the new millennium's biggest hits, too. The pair has written tracks for Michael Jackson, Jill Scott, Glenn Lewis, and Bilal. While they're highly respected behind the scenes, Floetry is their way of moving up front.

Ambrosius is the songstress to Stewart's spoken word impresario or "floacist" role. The two met due to their love of basketball. Stewart, who hails from London, was a superstar on her court, while Ambrosius wowed fans in her local English neighborhood. They were competitive, but not rivals, so a friendship was formed. Music was also a passion. Ambrosius relished in her reggae roots while Stewart found herself grooving to funk and soul. While attending Brits Performing Arts School, Ambrosius studied business and finance, but made room for courses in voice, performance technique, and recording. Stewart split her time between acting and directing. Later, Ambrosius and Stewart headed to college.

Ambrosius planned to attend Georgia Tech University on a basketball scholarship, but injury forced her to bow out. Stewart headed for Middlesex University, eventually transferring to North London University. Still, they two kept in touch and raved about music. It wouldn't be until Stewart's girl group, 3 Plus 1, disbanded that Floetry would actually give music a serious shot.

In 1997, Ambrosius and Stewart began writing songs and playing shows in and around London. Three years later, they moved to America in search of something bigger. A brief stint in Atlanta didn't pan out, but their time spent in Philadelphia proved golden. Ambrosius and Stewart befriended Julius Erving III, basketball great Julius Erving's son, in mid-2000. Floetry and Erving clicked instantly. Erving signed on as their manager and hooked the ladies up with Jeff Townes, aka DJ Jazzy Jeff, for some recording. That's when the deals started trickling in -- Floetry were official and living out a dream. In 2002, they inked a deal with DreamWorks and touched up their own work for a debut album. Floetic appeared in October 2002, and its follow-up, Flo'Ology, reached the Top Ten upon release three years later. - MacKenzie Wilson

Amanda Diva's Bio From AllMusic.Com
Born in Los Angeles, CA, on July 1, 1981, the multi-talented Amanda Seales spent most of her life in Orlando, FL, where she took various dance, music, and acting lessons. As a teenager she appeared onscreen (including in Nickelodeon's short-lived My Brother and Me), but she still decided to study theater at a university, settling on SUNY-Purchase. It was in college, upon the suggestion of a friend, that she first began to write her own spoken word work, and by 2002 she had appeared on Russell Simmons' Def Poetry Jam. In 2004 her debut mixtape, It's Bigger Than Hip-Hop, Vol. 1, a combination of her rhymed and sung material, hit the streets, and soon Seales, who was calling herself Amanda Diva, had lined up a gig on MTV2 and Sirius Radio (where she hosted the daily Hip-Hop Nation show), joined the DJ Drama/Don Cannon/DJ Sense-helmed Aphilliates crew, and published a book of poetry, as well as obtained her master's degree in African-American studies from Columbia University. In 2007 she took over for the departed Natalie Stewart in Floetry's tour, put out the Mick Boogie mixtape Still Sucka Free, Vol. 1, and in December of that same year, Amanda Diva released Life Experience, the first of a planned EP trilogy, with Love Experience and Live Experience set to follow. - Marisa Brown

Official Sites: Marsha Ambrosius' MySpace, Another Marsha Ambrosius' MySpace, Marsha Ambrosius' Facebook, The Floacist's MySpace, The Floacist's Facebook, The Floacist's Fuckin' Twitter, Marsha Ambrosius' Twitter, Amanda Diva, Amanda Diva's MySpace & Amanda Diva's Twitter

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