After an amazing year that included performing across the country, receiving the prestigious ASCAP Golden Note Award, a BET Award, Soul Train Award, two Stellar Awards and double Grammy Award nominations, the platinum selling Mary Mary is on a roll. The successful duo just released a stirring new single, “Go Get It,” the title track from their new album to be released on May 8. The album will include two brand new songs and classic remixed and remastered versions of some of the duo’s greatest hits. The new video for “Go Get It,” directed by Darren Grant (India Arie, Common, Destiny’s Child) recently premiered exclusively on wetv.com.
In addition to being award-winning vocalists, sisters Erica and Tina Campbell are the stars of their own reality television series, MARY MARY which also debuted on popular cable network WE TV in March 2012. The new show follows the Campbells on-stage as successful recording artists and performers and off-stage as siblings, mothers and wives, striving to balance their superstar lifestyles with raising their own families.
Born in Inglewood, CA to an evangelist/choir director mother and a youth minister father, sisters Erica and Tina Campbell — and their six other siblings — grew up singing in church choirs. After a stint studying vocal performance at local El Camino College, the duo joined the lineup of traveling gospel shows and toured as backup singers for several R&B acts.
Three years later, they secured a publishing deal with EMI and began accumulating writing and performance credits on soundtracks and through songs recorded by various artists.
With their platinum-selling, Grammy-winning debut album, Thankful, Mary Mary hit a homerun in 2000, due in large part to the broad success of its first single, “Shackles (Praise You).” Their sophomore follow-up, “Incredible”, was released in 2002 and was certified gold, before the group released such hits as “Heaven,” “The Real Party” and “Yesterday” on their self-titled album, “Mary Mary” (2005), which peaked at #8 on the Billboard 200. Their success continued with the release of an acclaimed holiday project, “A Mary Mary Christmas”, in 2006.
It is Mary Mary’s “The Sound” (2008), however, that sparked the duo’s best mainstream success to date, bowing at #7 on the Billboard 200 and #2 on the publication’s R&B/hip-hop chart, as well as garnering numerous awards for the album, and for its record-breaking single “God in Me.”
An amazing ten years and numerous accolades later, having earned three Grammy Awards, two American Music Awards and an NAACP Image Award, Mary Mary issued their sixth release, the aptly titled “Something Big” (2011). The album features the lively lead single, “Walking.” Like Mary Mary’s previous albums, “Something Big” resonates with a fusion of sound (R&B, hip-hop, dance, pop, gospel and jazz) and empowering messages.
Mary Mary will be at the Seminole Hard Rock Live in Hollywood, Florida on Sunday May 6, 2012.