Jody Watley addresses the constant online bullying, harassment, spreading of false narratives from her former group Shalamar, their team and fans, smear campaigns, defamatory remarks through the decades since departing her former group Shalamar in 1983.
Jody Watley departed the trio in July of 1983 almost 6 years years during their most pinnacle recordings.There is an ongoing campaign of false narratives being generated from her former group, their team and fanbase that she first addressed in 2016 includes photo's and documents to expose the ongoing longtime lies, deceptions and false narratives. ENOUGH IS ENOUGH. Stop bringing me up unless it's showing the respect earned in the early recording history of the group.
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The current host of popular monthly broadcast of "The Jody Watley Show" on Sirius XM's The Groove, Grammy winner and 3-time Grammy nominee Jody Watley is a multi-platinum singer/songwriter/producer and style icon. Her video for "Real Love" directed by Oscar winner David Fincher, remains one of the most nominated music videos in MTV Awards history. Watley has also been nominated for NAACP Image Awards, Soul Train and American Music Awards and is a recipient of the BMI Medal of Honor as a songwriter.
The Chicago native and recent inductee into the ‘Women’s Songwriters Hall Of Fame” and honoree as “Crossover Music Icon” in 2017 amongst many ongoing milestones and achievements. Jody Watley is one of the architects of 21st century Pop/R&B/Dance music and an influential figure in popular music and female artists.
Jody Watley, who was also featured in People Magazine's Most Beautiful People Issue, has sold millions of records worldwide with gold and platinum albums, singles, Greatest Hits Video compilation, as well as million selling workout video.
Watley’s cascade of hits include “Looking For A New Love” (with it's popular catchphrase "Hasta La Vista Baby" later used by Arnold Schwarzenegger in the action film, Terminator Judgement Day) "Don’t You Want Me” “Real Love” “Everything” and more. Jody Watley’s groundbreaking marriage of Rap/R&B with 1989’s “Friends,” collaboration with hip-hop legends Eric B. & Rakim - the first such pairing to crossover Top 10 on the Hot 100, Hot R&B & Dance on Billboard. Her vision-forward marriage of high fashion, street fashion and music in the ‘80s (long before it became the norm), to her fusion of jazz and underground club culture with keen pop instincts, and the ease with which she crossed and still crosses genre; Watley forged the template that is now in everybody’s playbook.
To date as a solo artist: 6 Hot 100 Singles, 15 Top 40 Singles, 13 #1 Dance Singles, 3 #1 R&B Singles. Jody Watley is ranked by Billboard Magazine as one of the Top 60 Hot 100 & Top 25 Female Dance Artists of All Time with an ongoing diverse discography spanning 80s, 90s, 00s, 10s, 20s R&B, Pop, Hip-hop, House, jazz, drum & bass, ambient, spoken-word, is built on a positive vision and a strong taste for artistic and aesthetic risk and being true to herself in each endeavor she chooses.
Ranked as one of Billboard Magazine's Top 60 Female Hot 100 Artists,Top 30 Dance Artists of All Time, Jody Watley's ongoing eclectic repertoire of music crosses genres of R&B, Pop, Dance, Electronic, Ambient, House and Jazz. The ageless pop and R&B singer has 6 Billboard Hot 100 Top Ten Singles, 13 # 1 Dance Singles, 2 R&B #1’s, 15 Top 40 Singles, Global gold/platinum albums ,#1 million selling fitness video, featured in celebrity ad campaigns, high fashion magazines including VOGUE, Vogue Italia, Harper's Bazaar, Rolling Stone, named one of People Magazine's 50 Most Beautiful, Billboard Dance Lifetime Achievement, Black Music Honors Crossover Music Icon Award, nominations American Music Awards, MTV Awards, NAACP Awards. Ranked 1 of the Top 60 Hot 100 Female Artists of All Time & Top 25 Dance Artists of All Time In Billboard Magazine. Watley is first Ambassador to the National Museum of African American Music in Nashville and featured in massive digital billboard in front of museum in 2021, recipient of an Honorary Doctorate in Business and Presidential Lifetime Achievement Award in 2022 as well an Inductee in the Women Songwriters Hall Of Fame.
Jody Watley's eclectic ongoing longevity and endeavors is built on a positive vision and a strong taste for artistic, aesthetic risk and being true to herself.
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