Since the market in the 1980s was already saturated with sweet-sounding, bubbly R&B groups, it was difficult for The Promise to stand. Her close affiliation with Kashif led to an album deal with Arista Records in 1988 for her pop R&B girl-group, The Promise. After her studies, she wrote and published songs for major R&B acts such as Kashif, LA Posse, and Malika Thomas. After graduating from New York University with degrees in English and Music in the mid-1980s, she studied voice for a year primarily in order to master control, as she had already developed and retained her own personal style. She worked as a back-up session vocalist for Melba Moore, Jermaine Jackson, rap icon LL Cool J, and the Pointer Sisters. Cardwell appeared on stage at Carnegie Hall at the age of five in a dance recital, and was used to being on a stage by the time she was a teen-ager. Born in New York City in the mid-1960s and raised in various areas of Queens her early influences included Billie Holiday, Barbra Streisand, and Minnie Riperton. In the 1980s, before the advent of house music, Card-well was closely connected to the urban R&B sound. “Entertainment Weekly ’s William Stevenson described Cardwell ’s music as “infectious dance music, “ebullient, and “propulsive, ” and described her voice as “R&B-ready ”. Cardwell ’s definitive approach is to sing meditative ballads set to extroverted, thump-intensive arrangements.
The Advocate ’s pop music critics, Barry Walters, wrote, “Neither glamour queen nor earth mamma, Cardwell focuses on her music, which she writes and often produces herself …. To learn more, see the privacy policy.In 1997, R&B and dance music vocalist and songwriter/producer Joi Cardwell garnered attention with her hit singles “Run to You ” and “Found Love ” in her self titled release in 1997. Please note that Urban Thesaurus uses third party scripts (such as Google Analytics and advertisements) which use cookies. Special thanks to the contributors of the open-source code that was used in this project: and you might like to check out the growing collection of curated slang words for different topics over at Slangpedia. There is still lots of work to be done to get this slang thesaurus to give consistently good results, but I think it's at the stage where it could be useful to people, which is why I released it. Please also note that due to the nature of the internet (and especially UD), there will often be many terrible and offensive terms in the results. Or you might try boyfriend or girlfriend to get words that can mean either one of these (e.g. The search algorithm handles phrases and strings of words quite well, so for example if you want words that are related to lol and rofl you can type in lol rofl and it should give you a pile of related slang terms. The higher the terms are in the list, the more likely that they're relevant to the word or phrase that you searched for. Note that this thesaurus is not in any way affiliated with Urban Dictionary.ĭue to the way the algorithm works, the thesaurus gives you mostly related slang words, rather than exact synonyms. The official Urban Dictionary API is used to show the hover-definitions. These indexes are then used to find usage correlations between slang terms. The Urban Thesaurus was created by indexing millions of different slang terms which are defined on sites like Urban Dictionary.
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