Epiphany was the second album from singer-songwriter Chrisette Michele, following 2007’s I Am. Chrisette did not let down with Epiphany, executively produced by Ne-Yo and featuring writing or production credits from Darkchild and Chuck Harmony. The album was released by Island Def Jam on May 5, 2009, debuting at #1 on the Billboard 200 with 83,000 certified first-week sales. the title track was the lead single on January 27, 2009, and “Blame It On Me” as the second on May 12. The Ne-Yo featured “What You Do” was the third on July 7 and “Fragile” on November 12, 2009 was the final song released. The album featured some mixed/neutral reviews and some positive, including being named one of Robert Christgau’s “Honorable Recognition” albums of October 2009. To date, the album and title track are Chrisette’s best-selling album and single in her discography. The album follows a strong, independent women theme, venturing away from the jazz-influenced I Am but going more into the Neo-Soul direction, even though some critics compared her voice to Chrisette’s model artist Ella Fitzgerald. Beyoncé’s song “Ego” was originally written for this album.

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Chrisette Michele's very good debut, I Am, won a couple Grammys but did not did not have corresponding commercial success. None of its three singles reached the Top 20 of the R&B/Hip-Hop chart. The album itself barely dented the Top 30 of the Billboard 200. She co-wrote each one of its songs and passed on the opportunity to record 'Irreplaceable,' later taken on by Beyoncé and made into one of 2006's biggest singles. Consider all of this, Grammy part excepted, and it's understandable why Chrisette would be steered in a different direction. Chrisette evidently did some of the driving, since one of the inspirations behind the album's title refers to the realization that she can benefit by allowing more input from songwriters. She co-writes only three of these songs, with executive production from 'Irreplaceable' writer Ne-Yo, who also gets writing credit on six songs; Chuck Harmony touches several cuts, while smaller contributions come from the likes of Rodney 'Darkchild' Jerkins, Allstar, Bei Maejor, and Tim Bosky. Given the different strategy, and the fact that none of the producers or songwriters here had anything to do with I Am, it's a little surprising that the results are not all that different. It's also somewhat ironic that it's less rounded; the material, while mostly well-crafted, runs together as a block of slow, serious songs broken up by only a couple brief upswings in energy. Chrisette, naturally, sounds outstanding throughout, as a supernaturally talented vocalist whose songs are nonetheless easily relatable to anyone going through a breakup -- or, to a significantly lesser extent here, newfound love -- but the album could have really used more rhythmic punch than a token throwback strutter.

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