702 Lead Singer Meelah Williams Shares Behind the Scenes Stories, New Book | The Jim Masters Show

Meelah Williams Interview. Kameelah "Meelah" Williams lead singer of the 90's trio 702, songwriter, actress and founder of P.R.O.U.D (Parents Reaching Out to Understand Developmental Delays) an organization dedicated to autism and special needs awareness. Meelah decided to write her first children's book dedicated to her son Zac called "Zac's Favorite Socks". On this episode of The Jim Masters Show Live entertainment, lifestyle, celebrity talk show series Meelah joins award-winning television, radio, multimedia personality and host Jim Masters for an incredible conversation,
Zac is excited to start the first grade. He's up early eager to have a great day. When he realizes that his favorite socks are missing everything changes. He's bummed out and suddenly not as excited to get to school. How is he supposed to make it through the day without his socks? And more importantly, will he ever see them again?
Meelah will be doing an upcoming book tour and signing in Las Vegas. She will also be doing signings in other cities soon. Meelah is also currently touring with 702. Between being a mom, singer, author, and running a non-profit she keeps a very busy schedule. Meelah is an advocate for autism and does speaking engagements on being a parent of a child with autism. This is her first children's book in the series for Zac. Look for more in the future. Meelah spends her time between her hometown of Las Vegas and Atlanta.
"Zac's Favorite Socks" can be purchased from Barnes and Nobles & Amazon.
702 (pronounced "Seven-Oh-Two"), named after the area code of their hometown of Las Vegas, Nevada, is an American girl group, with the final and most known line-up consisting of Kameelah Williams and sisters Irish and LeMisha Grinstead.
The group was originally a quartet featuring the Grinstead sisters, which included identical twins Irish and Orish (born June 2, 1980, in Houston, TX), their older sister LeMisha (born June 10, 1978, in Houston, TX), and Amelia Childs whom they debuted as featured artists on Subway's hit single "This Lil' Game We Play". Amelia and Orish were removed from the group due to Mike Bivins not favoring their voices and were briefly replaced by classmates Tiffany Villarreal and Kameelah Williams (born March 8, 1978, in Las Vegas, NV). Six months before their debut single was released Tiffany would depart the group. Continuing as a trio, they released their debut single "Steelo" with great success.
Their first released album No Doubt in 1996, sold 500,000 copies in the United States. In 1999 the trio released the most famous 702 song called "Where My Girls At?" on the album 702 which gained a high level of success for the group selling half a million copies in the United States. For undisclosed conflicting personal reasons with the record label, Kameelah Williams distanced herself from the Grinstead sisters after the release of that album, and was replaced by Cree La'More, a solo singer who Irish and LeMisha personally picked to join the group. The new line-up released a single called "Pootie Tangin'" for the Pootie Tang soundtrack, though shortly after this, Kameelah Williams returned to the group, and for undisclosed reasons, Cree La'More left the ensemble. With the return of Kameelah Williams, they released the album Star which is mostly remembered for the single "I Still Love You". The group then disbanded in 2006. They regrouped again in 2017, and appeared at the 2017 Soul Train Music Awards.
Their debut album, No Doubt shot to No. 1 on Top Heatseekers. Missy Elliott co-wrote & produced 4 songs on the album including the smash hit single "Steelo" and its remix. The album spawned the 3 hit singles: "Steelo", "All I Want" and "Get It Together". "Steelo" with altered lyrics was used as the theme song to the Nickelodeon television show Cousin Skeeter and "All I Want" was featured in the Nickelodeon movie Good Burger, based on the sketch from series All That, where they also performed. "Get It Together" exploded by giving the group a No. 3 R&B single and a No. 10 Pop single on the Billboard charts. The album earned them a Soul Train Lady of Soul Award in 1997. It sold over 500,000 copies worldwide. In addition to the album, 702 opened for New Edition, Keith Sweat, and Blackstreet during the 1996-97 New Edition reunion tour. They also appeared on Elliott's debut album Supa Dupa Fly on her 1998 song "Beep Me 911", which reached No. 14 on the UK Singles Chart. They also sang with Busta Rhymes' new artist Rampage. "My Friend" was featured on the soundtrack to Men in Black. In 1998, 702 made cameos in the sitcoms Sister, Sister and Moesha
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[@merlynfreiberg8352]

Meelah was such a joy!!! ❤ Thanks, Jim ❤

[@rhason86]

Love this interview!! We love you Meelah!! ❤🙏🏾

[@maureenwedepohl3052]

I love every episode of JMS Live but the ones where I don't know the guest are something special. It's so fun to get to know and hear the stories of these special guests. Meelah is no exception. What a beautiful young lady! Everything she does turns to gold. I'm so very inspired by her amazing career but even more that she keeps her young son as her priority. I admire her for the awareness she is creating about our special children that God has so lovingly placed in the hands of angels on earth. What a wonderful conversation this was. It seems to have gone way too fast! Hopefully Meelah will remember the porch light that welcomes her back! Thank you, Jim!

[@chancest.thomas5160]

Neva knew 702 made an appearance in "Double Platinum".