Jagged Edge

由Brian、Kyle、Brandon、Wingo组成的Jagged Edge来自美国亚特兰大。他们以其深得人心的动人美声闯荡乐坛，可说是集New Edition、Jodeci、Boys II Men等团体特色于一身的新生代R&B男子团体。。深受前Xscape主音歌手Kandi赏识的Jagged Edge，成名前在某一次表演中被鼎鼎大名的制作人Jermaine Dupri发掘，然而成为JD所成立的厂牌So So Def旗下的成员，受到老板高度重视及看好其前途，这使得Jagged Edge迅速走红。。97年底发行的那首张专辑《The Jagged Era》便获得Billboard Heatseeker专辑榜冠军宝座，并相继创造了《The Way That You Talk》及《Gotta Be》两首排行畅销单曲。。。2年后发行第二张专辑《JE Heartbreak》，在ASCAP(美国作曲家、作家与出版商协会)颁与"年度制作人"头衔的JD全权打理，其中首支单曲《Keys To The Range》已经成为Urban电台点播排行冠军名曲，而第二支抒情单曲《He Can't Love You》，则仅以5周的时间便窜升至Billboard单曲榜Top15名并拿下R&B / Hip-Hop单曲榜Top 3排行席次。
by John Bush & William Ruhlmann
Rough-but-smooth male vocal quartet Jagged Edge formed in Atlanta, consisting of identical twin brothers Brandon "Case Dinero" Casey and Brian "Brasco" Casey, who had moved from their native Hartford, CT; Kyle Norman (aka "Quick"), whom they'd met through church activities; and Richard Wingo (aka "Wingo Dollar"), a late addition to the group suggested by Xscape's Kandi Burruss, who took their demo to superproducer Jermaine Dupri. Jagged Edge signed to Dupri's Columbia-distributed So So Def label and in the summer of 1997 released their debut single, "The Way That You Talk," featuring appearances by Dupri and Da Brat; it reached the Top 40 of the R&B chart and was also a pop chart entry. Early in 1998, Jagged Edge released their first album, A Jagged Era, which went gold and spawned the Top 20 R&B, Top 40 pop hit "Gotta Be." Their next single, "He Can't Love U," appeared in the fall of 1998 and reached the Top Five of the R&B chart and the Top 20 of the pop chart, going gold in the process. It prefaced the group's second album, J.E. Heartbreak, which topped the R&B chart and hit the Top Ten of the pop chart, selling over 2,000,000 copies and spawning the number one R&B hits "Let's Get Married" (also Top 20 pop) and "Promise" (also Top Ten pop). By the time of the release of Jagged Edge's third album, Jagged Little Thrill, in late June 2001, its leadoff single, "Where the Party At" (featuring Nelly), was nearing the R&B Top Ten and was in the pop Top 40. 2003's Hard and 2006's Jagged Edge followed. For 2007's The Baby Makin' Project, the group switched to Island, but Dupri had since taken up the post of president at the label's urban division, making the transition from Columbia a welcomed and natural one.