Several songs have reappeared on other studio albums by Benet. Due to the controversy about music style and creative freedom, Benét changed to Reprise-distributed label Friday Records and recorded his next album, Hurricane.īetter & Better is the unreleased third studio album by American recording artist Eric Benét in 2001. rejected to release this album and forced him to stay in the R&B genre. He has also lent his vocals to many jazz albums for such artists as Wayman Tisdale, George Duke, Chris Botti, Jeff Lorber, and Boney James.īenét recorded his following album Better and Better in 2001, but Warner Bros. He contributed vocals to the post-Katrina charity single, “Heart of America”, along with Michael McDonald, Wynonna Judd, and Terry Dexter. Eric Benèt was a winner at the NAACP Image Awards winning ” “Spend My Life with You” (with Tamia).īenét also recorded for Earth, Wind, and Fire‘s 30th anniversary CD. The album, A Day in the Life also won a Soul Train Music Award for Best R&B/Soul Album, Male. “Spend My Life With You” rose to number one on the American R&B charts, was certified gold, and nominated for a 2000 Grammy Award for Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group. Its first single, “ Georgy Porgy (featuring Faith Evans)” received significant airplay, but the second single, “ Spend My Life With You (featuring Tamia)”, became a smash hit. His next album, A Day in the Life, was released in 1999. A Day in the Life, Benet’s follow-up to his debut album, True to Myself (1996), has sold 752,000 copies in the United States as of 2000. A Day in the Life is the Platinum-selling second studio album by R&B singer Eric Benét, originally released on April 27, 1999, on Warner Bros. In 1995, he released the song “Let’s Stay Together”, which originally appeared on the soundtrack of the 1996 Martin Lawrence film A Thin Line Between Love and Hate. The music video to the song was directed by Charles Stone III. The title track was the fourth and final single released from the album with a video directed by Joseph Kahn.The song was featured on the soundtrack to Batman & Robin, released on June 10, 1997. The album’s biggest hit was the third single “Femininity”, which was directed by a then-unknown Francis Lawrence.”Femininity” also featured an appearance from then-unknown rapper Tiye Phoenix, who played a pregnant woman in the music video. Benet produced most of his debut with Demonté Posey and George Nash, Jr.- who would work with him on his later recordings. Records, releasing his debut solo album, True to Myself in 1996. Two years later, Eric Benét broke onto the music scene with his solo career and signed with Warner Bros. formed a band called Benét and released a self-titled album in 1992, and it went on to sell over 100,000 copies. Benét, his sister Lisa, and his cousin George Nash Jr. R&B/ neo soul singer-songwriter and actor, who has received a total of four Grammy nominations to date for his musical work.īenét was born on Octoin Mobile, Alabama and raised in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.