It’s our girl, Marsha Ambrosius of the R&B duo, Floetry! She looks just like she did when she was a youngin’ doesn’t she?
We love us some Marsha, here at ILOSM, and we really love Floetry. With hits like “Say Yes,” “Butterflies,” Getting Late,” “Floetry,” and more, they were killing the music game in the 90s and early 2000’s.
But when they split up in 2006 they had many of us neo-soul lovers damn near about to shed a tear over it because they were part of the last generation of the only true soul music artists left. So them splitting up contributed to the demise the dwindling soul music genre as we knew it.
In mid 2014, Marsha gave her version of the story as to why they split up in the first place:
“When we first started out, I was already writing and producing. Nat was a poet,” said Ambrosius. “I called her to do a song called ‘Fantasize’ I already had and put some poetry to it, and it became a fusion of two solo artists that did something awesome together. So when it works, it works, and it didn’t work anymore.
“When you disagree on where you are in your lives you can’t create.”
But in 2012 Natalie “The Floatist” spoke out to give her side of the story and it’s a tad bit different from Marsha’s:
“Marsha left Floetry, after so much joint success and foundation building, to join Aftermath Records, with no assurance of an album release. Ultimately, holding Floetry to ransom, to pursue a possibility of ‘mainstream’ success and all that was gained, was whatever they would’ve put into her pocket, and a mixtape release entitled ‘Neo Soul is Dead’. This to me is the perfect example of someone selling out, or selling their soul.”
Thankfully Floetry is BACK like they never left! They linked back up at the end of 2014 and had me singing Peaches & Herb for about a good week straight: “Reunited and it feels so good, Reunited ’cause we understood!”
Check out one of Floetry’s most recent performances below and we even threw in a couple of their timeless throwback jams that are just as FIRE as the first day they hit the music scene.
