Sisqó

Sisqó (2018)

Sisqó (born November 9, 1978 in Baltimore , Maryland ; actually: Mark Althavan Andrews ) is an American R&B and pop singer. He is a member of the band Dru Hill and has been a successful solo artist since 1999.

Life

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Sisqó has African-American and Native American ancestors.

Sisqó met his later Dru Hill bandmate James "Woody" Green in middle school. He first attended the Mervo, later the Baltimore City College in Baltimore , where he also met Tamir "Nokio" Ruffin . The band Dru Hill was later engaged by Ruffin, who is named after Druid Hill Park in Baltimore. Soon Larry "Jazz" Anthony was also included.

It is known about his private life that he allegedly impregnated a 14-year-old girl in Zurich in 1999.

Solo career

In 1998, Sisqó recorded a song with Mýa , their single It's All About Me , which reached number 6 on the US charts. In November 1999, Sisqó's first album, Unleash The Dragon, was released . The second single from the album, Thong Song , became one of his most famous hits. With the single Incomplete he made it to the top of the US charts. In 2000, Sisqó sang alongside DMX on his single What These Bitches Want . In the same year he worked with Lil 'Kim on the song How Many Licks .

His second CD Return Of Dragon was released in June 2001. The first single Dance For Me reached number 6 in the British charts, but overall Return Of Dragon could not build on the success of the first album. In 2002 he recorded another album ( Dru World Order ) with Dru Hill, but it flopped. His third solo album The Last Dragon was planned for 2012, but the release was postponed until 2015.

Awards

• 2000: Kora All African Music Award in the American Diaspora category

Discography

Albums

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)				Remarks
		DE	CH	UK	US
1999	Unleash the Dragon	DE54 gold (27 weeks)DE	CH36 (21 weeks) CH	UK15th gold (38 weeks)UK	US2 × 5 Quintuple platinum (60 weeks)US
2001	Return of Dragon	DE22 (9 weeks) DE	CH17 (12 weeks) CH	UK22nd silver (5 weeks)UK	US7th platinum (10 weeks)US

More albums

• 2015: Last Dragon

Singles

year	Title album	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes)				Remarks
		DE	CH	UK	US
1999	Got to Get It Unleash the Dragon	DE48 (9 weeks) DE	-	UK14 (4 weeks) UK	US40 (20 weeks) US
2000	Thong Song Unleash the Dragon	DE15 (16 weeks) DE	CH8 (25 weeks) CH	UK3 platinum (14 weeks)UK	US3 (28 weeks) US
	Incomplete Unleash the Dragon	DE51 (9 weeks) DE	CH31 (8 weeks) CH	UK13 (8 weeks) UK	US1 platinum (26 weeks)US
	Unleash the Dragon Unleash the Dragon	-	CH47 (6 weeks) CH	UK6 (7 weeks) UK	-
2001	Dance for Me Return of Dragon	DE55 (7 weeks) DE	CH10 (17 weeks) CH	UK6 (10 weeks) UK	-
	Can I Live? Return of Dragon	DE87 (3 weeks) DE	-	-	-

More singles

• 2001: Return of Dragon
• 2006: Who's Ur Daddy

Collaborations

year	Title album	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes)				Remarks
		DE	CH	UK	US
1998	It's All About Me Mýa	-	-	-	US6th gold (20 weeks)US	Mýa feat. Sisqó
2000	What You Want ... And Then There Was X	-	-	-	US49 (20 weeks) US	DMX feat. Sisqó
	How many licks? The Notorious KIM	DE58 (8 weeks) DE	-	-	US75 (9 weeks) US	Lil 'Kim feat. Sisqó

Awards for music sales

Golden record

•  Belgium
  • 2000: for the single Thong Song
•  Netherlands
  • 2000: for the album Unleash The Dragon

2 × platinum record

•  Canada
  • 2001: for the album Unleash The Dragon

Note: Awards in countries from the chart tables or chart boxes can be found in these.

Country / Region	silver	gold	platinum	Sales	swell
Awards for music sales (country / region, awards, sales, sources)
Belgium (BEA)	-	gold1	-	25,000	ultratop.be
Germany (BVMI)	-	gold1	-	250,000	musikindustrie.de
Netherlands (NVPI)	-	gold1	-	40,000	nvpi.nl
Canada (MC)	-	-	2 × platinum2	200,000	musiccanada.com
United States (RIAA)	-	gold1	7 × platinum7th	7,500,000	riaa.com
United Kingdom (BPI)	silver1	gold1	platinum1	760,000	bpi.co.uk
All in all	silver1	5 × gold5	10 × platinum10

Filmography

• 2001: Ran to the bride
• 2002: Snow Dogs
• 2003: Pieces of April - A day with April Burns
• 2006: Surf School

swell

1. ↑ Rap star Sisqo claims: “I have no child in Switzerland” , Tagesanzeiger
2. ↑ Sisqo's 'Last Dragon' Will Serve As Singer's Return To Music , accessed May 30, 2013
3. ↑ List of the 2000 Kora event winners ( Memento of the original from June 3, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed February 22, 2010 
4. ↑ ^{a b c} Chart sources: Singles Albums US1 US2

Web links

• Sisqó's website
• Literature by and about Sisqó in the catalog of the German National Library
• Sisqó in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Sisqó at Allmusic (English)
• Sisqó at Discogs (English)