Taral Hicks (born on 21, September 1974 in Queens, New York) is an African American R&B singer and actress, sister of singer D'Atra Hicks.
She began her career with a role in the 1993 Robert DeNiro-starring film "A Bronx Tale" as the character Jane Williams. Her subsequent film roles were small, 1995's "Just Cause" with Sean Connery and Laurence Fishbourne, 1996's "Educating Matt Waters" & "The ...
show all Taral Hicks (born on 21, September 1974 in Queens, New York) is an African American R&B singer and actress, sister of singer D'Atra Hicks.
She began her career with a role in the 1993 Robert DeNiro-starring film "A Bronx Tale" as the character Jane Williams. Her subsequent film roles were small, 1995's "Just Cause" with Sean Connery and Laurence Fishbourne, 1996's "Educating Matt Waters" & "The Preacher's Wife" with Whitney Houston. It wasn't until her short "Sax Cantor Riff" in the 1997 Showtime original film "Subway Stories" that audiences began to take notice. As the 'Woman with Flowers', singing to her mother on the payphone, her performance was widely disputed to be one of the best in the film.
Taral had signed a deal with Motown Records a year earlier, which was then-headed by Andre Harrell. Her first song, "Ooh Ooh Baby", produced, written and featuring Missy Elliott charted on the Billboard [R&B]] singles chart. However, the official lead single to debut her singing career was "Distant Lover", an up-tempo track produced by Teddy Riley. Her album didn't start to take off until the set's second single, "Silly", a remake of the classic R&B hit by Deniece Williams was released. Featuring a sexy, B&W video directed by Hype Williams, the single took off.
With their collaboration on the video for "Silly", Hype Williams casted her in his directorial film debut, 1998's film "Belly", as Kisha, DMX's abused girlfriend. The video to "Silly" even appeared in one of the film's scenes. It wasn't until 2000 that she appeared on-screen, in the short film "Are You Cinderella?" with actor Wood Harris. Two television guest roles followed: 2002's "100 Centre Street" in the episode titled "Fathers", and 2003's "Soul Food" in the episode titled "The New Math".
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