Videos: The Floacist

Forever

Let Me

Natalie Stewart is a former member of the English Neo-soul duo, Floetry.

Original members Marsha Ambrosius and Natalie Stewart met through their love of basketball and formed a friendship. Both attended the Brit School for Performing Arts & Technology, where Ambrosius studied business and finance and Stewart majored in Performing Arts, Media and Art. For college Ambrosius planned to attend the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, Georgia on a basketball scholarship, but could not due to an injury. Stewart attended Middlesex University in London, but later transferred to North London University. During these years, both women continued to keep in touch. Stewart was a founding member of the performance poetry group 3 Plus 1, which was rising to critical acclaim throughout London, Birmingham, and Manchester. After inviting Ambrosius to join her on stage to perform at a spoken word night, where they debuted a piece that they had written together called Fantasize, combining spoken word and singing, Floetry was born.

Group success

In 2000, the duo travelled to the United States to perform on the poetry circuit. After frequenting spoken word/poetry spots in Atlanta, such as Yin Yang Poets' Cafe, they moved on to Philadelphia. There they met Darren 'Limitless' Henson and Keith 'Keshon' Pelzer of DJ Jazzy Jeff's Touch Of Jazz studio and began recording. In 2002, they signed with DreamWorks Records and released their debut album Floetic, which featured the singles "Floetic", "Say Yes", and "Getting Late". The album was also released in the UK with additional tracks, one of which featured the British singer-songwriter and record producer, Sebastian Rogers.

In 2005, Floetry released Flo'Ology, their second studio album. It debuted at #7 on the Billboard 200, and included the single "SupaStar" featuring rapper Common.
[edit] Solo

Her debut solo album, The Floacist presents: Floetic Soul, was released in 2010 on Shanachie Records.
[edit] Discography
[edit] Albums
[edit] Solo
Year Album details Chart positions[1]
U.S. U.S. R&B U.S. Indie
2010 The Floacist Presents Floetic Soul

1st solo album
Released: 9 November, 2010 (US), 24 January, 2011 (UK)
Label: Shanachie Records
Formats: CD, Digital download

95 20 7
[edit] With Floetry
Year Title Chart positions[2] Sales/certification
U.S. U.S. R&B
2002 Floetic

1st studio album
Released: October 1, 2004

19 4

RIAA certification: Gold
U.S. sales: 788,000+[3]

2003 Floacism

Live album
Released: November 18, 2003

74 11

RIAA certification: N/A

2005 Flo'Ology

2nd studio album
Released: November 8, 2005

7 2

RIAA certification: N/A

[edit] Singles
[edit] Solo
Year Title Chart positions Album
U.S. U.S. R&B
2010 "Forever" (featuring Musiq Soulchild) - - The Floacist Presents Floetic Soul[4]
2011 "Let Me"[5] - -
[edit] With Floetry
Year Title Chart positions Album
U.S. U.S. R&B
2002 "Floetic" - 29 Floetic
2003 "Say Yes" 24 8
" Getting Late" - 31
" Wanna B Where U R (Thisizzaluvsong)" (featuring Mos Def) - - Floacism
2005 "I'm Black" (Styles P featuring Floetry) - 94 Time is Money
" Supastar" (featuring Common) - 55 Flo'Ology
" Lay Do - 102