About Res -  a talented and beautiful woman

Shareese Renèe Ballard, better known as Res (pronounced /ˈriːs/ reese) is a female R&B singer from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Her music is a mixture of soul, hip hop, house and rock. She released her debut album, How I Do, in 2001 featuring the first single "Golden Boys."

In spite of the video's heavy rotation on VH1, the song was not a hit on radio. Later the same year she released her second single "Ice King" featuring rapper Nas, like "Golden Boys" the song did not appeal to a mainstream audience and a video was never released for the single.

In 2002 she released her third (and first hit) single "They Say Vision," which hit number one on the Billboard Dance chart and number 37 on the Hot 100 Singles Sales chart. With the success of the single, the album entered the Billboard 200 for the first time.

A fourth single, "Sittin' Back," was also released. Res did a remake of a Jefferson Starship song titled "Miracles" for the movie Maid in Manhattan (Starring Jennifer Lopez). Shortly after, she also became a poster child for Marc Ecko's "Ecko Red" clothing line and appeared in print advertising.

After a near four years' hiatus she is currently touring supporting vocals with Gnarls Barkley and is in the process of releasing her second album.

She recently released a song on the Akeelah and the Bee (starring Keke Palmer, Laurence Fishburne and Angela Bassett) movie soundtrack called "To Empower."

As of July 2006, Res' album How I Do has sold 244,000 copies in the U.S.

Some may call her slightly "alternative", I just say talented says it best. Her album is a complex masterpeice full of reggae, rock and roll, soul, and solid beats with hard basslines. You can tell that she is influenced by every music genre.

Her music is not superficial like most of todays radio friendly hits (or misses as I call them). She has a incredibly strong voice and I can attest to this because I have seen her in concert with Maxwell.

In fact, that's why I bought the album. Her performance was stellar!! Sadly enough the people really didn't give her the love she deserved, partially because they are used to only liking what marketing and A&R promotions tell them to like.

She sounds exactly the same on stage as on CD, so I guess there was no need to "doctor" her voice. It's really hard to compare her to other artists because she is truly unique.

My personal favorites on the CD are Ice King (where she talks about a hazardous relationship), Golden Boys ("Gold-en Boys...Life ain't a video!"), and Tsunami (a sweet song about love and loss).

I encourage you to purchase this album now, first and foremost, because she's talented, and secondly to save her from being released from her label because the masses decided to bow down to the garbage that they play on the radio.

I find it a shame that Philadelphia-born singer Res never attracted the attention she so deserved after recording such a great debut. While this release spawned a dance hit that somewhat crossed over to the pop charts in 2002("They Say Vision")Res became overlooked.

You may think her voice sounds too much like Stevie Nicks or Alanis Morissette at first, but her originality comes forth as she offers a smooth blend of rock, hip-hop, jazz, and funk-very colorful and diverse.

From the opening track "Golden Boys," to the album's last song"Tsunami," her first and only release will leave you playing these tracks again and again, and eventually wondering when a sophomore recording will be a reality.