Honey

Honey (born Vivienne Honey White; April 17, 1981) is an American R&B singer and model. Born in Honolulu, Hawaii and raised in New York City, she enrolled in performing arts schools as a child and joined many pop groups as an adult, with none amounting to any sort of success. In 2009, she moved to the United Kingdom where she was offered a recording contract with Saturdays Records. Her previous knock-backs had taken their toll on Honey and, despite announcing and readily promoting her debut single, she released herself from her contract returning all of the money Saturdays Records had advanced her and returned to New York. Honey was then scoped out by Fusion Records in 2010 who agreed to give her as much time as she needed to record her debut album. After attending counselling sessions for her anxiety in-between recording for the album, Honey was ready to release her debut single in 2011. She embarked on an intense 3 month promotional trail to promote 'Gone Til December' in both the UK & US. The single was a critical and chart success and charted at #4 in the UK & #9 in the US. Her debut album 'Mafia' ,and the single of the same name followed, and reached #5 on the UK album chart & #12 on Billboard 200. Later in 2011, Honey took her album to Germany where they were showing intense interest in her. She released the two UK singles plus Germany-only releases 'Amnesia' & 'Buy My Love/Scummudy Ert' in 2012. The album reached #1. Back in the UK, an Aurora Reed penned 'Got A Girlfriend' was released in the hope of re-igniting interest, but limped in at #10. In March, Honey participated in the Tango Challenge with Ashley! but due to commitments in Germany, was unable to promote as expected. Their single 'Scaredy Cat' reached #7 and was a moderate success. In June 2012, not even an Aurora Reed collaboration could secure a big hit for Honey, as Oh My! reached #6 but fell out of the top 10 a week later. However, a re-release of 'Mafia', titled 'Miss Mafia', was a consistent seller throughout 2012 re-entering the top 10 sporadically throughout the year. When it fell out of the chart in August, it had sold over 695,000 copies and had been certified Platinum. Honey took the rest of the year off to focus on recording her second album.

In 2013, Honey returned with sophomore album 'Pop This Bitch!' and a buzz around her that we hadn't seen before. For the albums lead single Hype Man!, she enlisted unknown rapped Razor J to feature. Both releases debuted at #1 in the UK single & album charts. The album remained in the UK top 2 for a month after release selling 400,000 copies in 4 weeks.

Early life
Honey was born as Vivienne Honey White in the borough of Brooklyn in New York City, New York, United States of America on 17 April 1981. Her father, Benicio White, is of Hawaiian and Russian descent; her mother, Floella, is from the Phillipines. Despite her lineage, Honey states that people always thought she was either "Black, Latin, or Arabic when I'm really none of those things".

Early music career
In early 2010, Honey was signed to Saturdays Records and was set to release her debut single. However, her management advised her to cancel her debut single, in which she did, and she briefly retreated from the music business. She was eventually dropped from Saturdays, releasing nothing under the label.

Honey would eventually resurface in the music business months later.

2010 -2012: debut single and Mafia
In mid to late 2010, Honey signed with Fusion Records and soon after began to promote her debut single, "Gone Til December". Honey spent two months promoting the single and on 27 December 2010, the single was finally released in the UK.

"Gone Til December" manage to debut and peak at #3 on the UK Singles Chart, becoming her first top three hit in the UK.

Current events
Shortly after the release of "Gone Til December", Honey announced that she would release her second single, "Mafia", and her debut album of the same name. Both the single and the album will be due in 2011.

Discography
Main Article: Honey Discography

Albums

 * 2011: Mafia
 * 2013: "Pop This Bitch!"

Singles

 * 2010: "Gone Til December"
 * 2011: "Mafia"
 * 2012: "Got A Girlfriend"
 * 2012: "Scaredy Cat" with Ashley
 * 2012: "Oh My!" featuring Aurora Reed
 * 2013: "Hype Man!" featuring Razor J