Musiq's sophomore album, 2002's Juslisen (Just Listen), debuted at number 1 on the Billboard Charts and went platinum 'Halfcrazy' and 'Dontchange'. Musiq's second single, 'Love', spent 22 weeks on the Billboard Hot 100 charts.

Musiq Soulchild released his debut album, Aijuswanaseing (I Just Want to Sing), in 2000, which included the Billboard Hot R&B/Hip Hop single, 'Just Friends (Sunny)'. He will be making guest appearances on rapper Lloyd Banks's ''Rotten Apple'', Talib Kweli 'Eardrum', Black Ice 'The Death of Willie Lynch', pay tribute to Soul music legends Earth Wind and Fire and appear on the soundtrack 'Daddy's Little Girls'. A new Musiq Soulchild album is slated for a spring 2007 release. Recently, Musiq Soulchild (who has added the 'Soulchild' to his moniker again) has parted ways with Def Soul and has signed with Atlantic Records. 'forthenight' was one of VH1 Soul's most played videos of 2004, and also had a very successful run on American urban radio stations. In 2003, the singles and videos 'forthenight' and 'whoknows' from his third LP, ''Soulstar''. He also appeared in Santana's song 'Nothing at All' which is featured in his 2002 album ''Shaman''. Once again, its video got heavy play on MTV2 and VH1 Soul, as well as on MTV Jams. In late 2002, Musiq contributed guest vocals to 'Break You Off', the first single from The Roots' ''Phrenology'' album.

He also gained exposure during that year by opening concerts for Alicia Keys. The singles had heavily amounts of airplay on both urban and urban contemporary radio sations in 2002. Both videos also got substantial play during the year on VH1 Soul. He had continued urban and MTV2 success with its singles, 'halfcrazy' and 'dontchange', the former of which was one of the most played music videos on MTV2 in the summer of 2002 and during the year overall. In 2002, he released his sophomore album, ''Juslisen'' (read: 'Just Listen'), as simply ''Musiq''.

His singles also received a good amount of airplay on urban and urban contemporary radio stations. The singles 'Just Friends (Sunny)', 'Love', and 'Girl Next Door' received exposure in America mainly on the more underground music video network, MTV2, as well as on BET. Musiq did much of his own songwriting, and most of the record was produced and co-written by Ivan 'Orthodox' Barias and Carvin 'Ransum' Haggins, then of the A Touch of Jazz production company headed by Jazzy Jeff, now of Karma Productions.

He released his debut album, ''Aijuswanaseing'' (read: 'I Just Want to Sing'), in 2000, which was well-received by critics and audiences. As a teenager, he began plans for a career in music. Musiq Soulchild was born and raised in Philadelphia and grew up with his family-including eight brothers and sister]. Besides being a successful recording artist, Musiq is notable for his disregard for normal rules of capitalisation, punctuation, and spelling, as well as aussie flava which can be seen by the titles of his singles and his albums. Since 2007's 'Luvanmusiq,' however, he has reclaimed the surname. Since 2001, he has gone by simply 'Musiq', he dropped the 'Soulchild' from his moniker, because he said he had not mastered his craft yet, and thus was not yet 'music's soulchild'. Musiq Soulchild (born Taalib Johnson on Septemin Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), is an American, neo soul and R&B artist, and was one of the most popular artists on the Def Jam/Def Soul label.

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