kandi burrus

Kandi Burruss
The Georgia native and former Xscape member is the newest Housewife, replacing Deshawn Snow. Burruss is a Grammy Award-winning singer/songwriter who resides in Fayetteville, GA with her six-year-old daughter Riley. Her fiancé Ashley Jewell (AJ) (whose work is some "involvement in the music business" and his twin daughters now live with her . Burruss says since they began dating, he is now active in all six of his children's lives[13]. She is a former member of the platinum-selling musical group Xscape, and won a Grammy Award for her work on TLC's mega hit "No Scrubs." She has also written/co written music for artists that include Mariah Carey, 'N Sync, Destiny's Child, Alicia Keys, American Idol Fantasia Barrino, female rapper Solé, Pink and Whitney Houston. Aside from being a Grammy Award-winning singer/songwriter and record producer, she is also the founder and CEO of Kandi Koated Entertainment, her own independent recording label. It was reported that Burruss and fiance AJ ended their engagement. It was then reported by TMZ, that AJ had been killed in a club brawl.