
Lincoln Browder, (born October 12, 1964) better known by his
stage name
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Link, is an American
R&B singer
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. He is from
Dallas
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,
Texas
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.
Career
Browder sang in
gospel
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choirs as a youngster and in a group in
high school
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.
Darrell Delite Allamby recruited him to sing in the R&B group Protege.
After
writing
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the hit "
My Body" for the R&B
supergroup LSG, Link was offered his own
recording contract
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with
Relativity Records
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. His 1998 debut
album
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, ''Sex Down'', spawned one
Top 40
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hit single in the
US, "Whatcha Gonna Do?" (#23
''Billboard'' Hot 100, #15
US ''
Billboard
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''
R&B). The track peaked at #48 in the
UK Singles Chart in November 1998.
In addition a second charting single was issued, "I Don't Wanna See," which reached #43 on the US R&B chart and #25 on the
Hot Singles Sales
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chart.
Link also wrote songs for
Silk
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,
Tony Thompson,
Tamar Braxton
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Braxton began her career in 1990 as a founding member of The Braxtons, an R&B singing group formed with her sisters. The Braxtons r ...
,
K-Ci & JoJo
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and
Gerald Levert
Gerald Edward Levert (July 13, 1966 – November 10, 2006) was an Americans, American singer-songwriter and Music Producer, producer. Levert performed with his brother, Sean Levert, and friend Marc Gordon with the R&B vocal group, LeVert. Le ...
.
In 2008, he released his second album ''Creepin'' independently. Additionally, a digital single "Erotic" was released in 2013.
Discography
Albums
Singles
References
External links
Official Twitter
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Living people
American male singers
American contemporary R&B singers
Singers from Texas
Songwriters from Texas
1964 births
American male songwriters