Born on January 9, 1978 in Boston, Massachusetts, U.S., R&B singer Mashonda Dean
(née Tifrere) kickstarted her career in 1999 with a feature on Jay-Z's Swizz
Beatz-produced single "Girl's Best Friend," which was featured on the soundtrack
to Les Mayfield's buddy comedy Blue Streak. That same year she turned up on
Eve's "Gotta Man," also produced by Swizz Beatz, which was featured on her debut
studio album Let There Be Eve...Ruff Ryders' First Lady. Mashonda dropped her
one and only debut solo album, January Joy, in 2005 via J Records and Full
Surface Records, which features track...