Tenitra Michelle Williams (born July 23, 1980 in Rockford, Illinois) is the third of R & B supergroup Destiny's Child, she is also a gospel singer songwriter and Broadway actress, she has won three Grammy Awards with Destiny's Child Raised in a Christian family, Williams learned to sing in her church choir, she later sang in a musical quartet called United Harmony with sister Cameron After attending Auburn High School and is part of the CAPA (Creative and Performing Arts) program where she pursued a degree in criminal justice at Illinois State University while singing backup for R & B star Monica That was when she had the opportunity to become part of what soon global phenomenon Destiny's Child as Michelle joined the EU in 2000
After the release and promotion of Destiny 'The Child's Survivor album Williams became the first member to release a solo studio album Her Gospel album Heart To Yours shot up to # 1 on the Billboard Gospel Chart and became the best-selling Gospel album of 2002 makes its first member of Destiny's Child to do so, when she broke the theater with his big role in the Broadway hit Aida replacing R & B singer Toni Braxton
Following the success of her debut Michelle released her second album titled "Do You Know" in 2004 featuring the single of the same name and a Destiny's Child Gospel song Know The album does not perform as well as his debut but reached # 2 on the Hot Christian Contemporary Albums Chart and # 3 on Billboard's Gospel Chart
Smaller Performancece of Do You Know may have been due to the growing criticism of WilLiams some devout Christian groups who were against the fact that she was both a solo artist partaking in Gospel and R & B artist as part of the globally successful secular group Destiny's Child Williams's second album also produced a different sound from the debut with more R & B -influenced beats and strong vocals from Michelle
Michelle released her third and the first commercial pop album "Unexpected" on October 7, 2008 in the United States and 30 September in the UK The album contains the Hot Dance singles "We Break The Dawn" "The Greatest" and "Hello Heartbreak"
