Ms. Kelly

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Kelly Rowland chronology
Ms. Kelly

Studio album by Kelly Rowland
Released	June 26, 2007 (US)
Recorded	2004-2007
Genre	R&B
Label	Columbia
Simply Deep (2002)	Ms. Kelly (2007)

Ms. Kelly is the second solo studio album by American R&B singer Kelly Rowland, to be released by Columbia on June 26, 2007 (see 2007 in music) in the United States.

1 History
- 1.1 Production
2 Singles
3 Notes

[edit] History

[edit] Production

Rowland has been working on her sophomore solo album on and off since 2004. Originally entitled My Story, the album's first version was actually scheduled for a release on June 13, 2006 and involving main production by Rich Harrison, Rockwilder, Patrick "J. Que" Smith, Soulshock & Karlin and songwriters Tank and Solange Knowles.^[1] Though she world premiered a Big Tank produced lead single, "Gotsta Go," on the 2006 MTV Asia Awards in Bangkok on May 6, 2006, Rowland, her management and Columbia Records eventually decided to shelve the album in favor of a re-worked version with a different vibe since the singer considered the final tracklist "too full of midtempos and ballads:"^[2] "It was basically a list of songs that I put together about the past three years of my life, with love and relationships," Rowland said of the album in an interview with MTV News. "And I remember listening to the record, and I was just like, 'I don't want this to be too deep to where, you know, [I] lose people.' I still wanna have my party records, and I still wanna make people get up and bob their heads and vibe a little bit..."^[2]

Rowland, who wrote a lot herself on the record,^[1] eventually consulted a few other producers to collaborate on the album, renamed Ms. Kelly, including Sean Garrett, Scott Storch,^[3] and Atlanta-based Polow Da Don, who contributed the single "Like This", a duet with rapper Eve, to the album. The second single to be lifted from Ms. Kelly will be "Ghetto", a collboration with rapper Snoop Dogg.