Trey Songz (born Tremaine Aldon Neverson in Petersburg, Virginia on November 28, 1984) is an African American contemporary R&B singer and songwriter. His debut album was Gotta Make It, released by Atlantic Records in 2005. Inspired musically by R&B artists from the 1960s and 1970s such as Smokey Robinson and Aretha Franklin as well as contemporary artists such as Luther Vandross and R.Kelly, the young star debuted in 2005 with great fanfare to a music genre starved for new young talent.

Road to stardom

The first single from the album was "Just Gotta Make It", which peaked at #87 on the Billboard Hot 100 and only number 21 on the Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs tally. More recently, Songz has garnered greater notoriety and increased album sales due to his collaboration with Twista on "Girl Tonite", a song from Twista's album The Day After which reached number 14 on the Billboard Hot 100 and number 3 on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs tally.

He wrote and co-produced music for soca artist Kevin Lyttle’s self-titled debut in 2004 and was featured on the Soundtrack to "Coach Carter" and albums by Trick Daddy, Gerald Levert, and Juvenile. Trey Songz was also featured on Twista’s 2005 album The Day After.

Trey Songz is also very good friends with teenage R&B singer Chris Brown. Trey can be seen in the music video for Chris' second single "Yo (Excuse Me Miss)". Likewise Chris Brown can be seen in the music video for Trey's second single "Gotta Go"

In April 2006, Trey collaborated with bilingual Japanese R&B/Hip-Hop artist AI on her single Believe, with the track Beautiful feat. Trey Songz. The duo even performed this track live at the MTV Awards in Japan, where AI won the award for 'Best R&B Music Video' for her ballad-single, Story. [1] The song was later remixed and appeared on AI's album What's goin' on A.I., released September 2006. Trey can also be heard on Why You Wanna Remix by T.I..

By the end of 2006 Trey made a collaboration with the ex member of "Kabah" (the Mexican pop band) Maria Jose, the single is called "Quien eres tu" and we can hear Trey Songz practicing a little Spanish. The song is gained much airplay and digital sales in Mexico and Latin America and has grown to become Trey's most successful song in the Spanish-speaking world.

Trey recently began work on his upcoming album Trey Day, which is a follow up to Gotta make it and will be his second album under Atlantic Records. It is set to be released October 2nd 2007. The first single is "Wonder Woman" was shot on April 4th and will feature Angel aka "Lola Luv" as Trey's 'Wonder Woman'

Trey also appeared on Obie Trice's second album, Second Round's on Me on two songs called "Ghetto" and "Mama." He is also expected to appear on Young Buck's new album Buck the World. Because of the new connections with such Shady/Aftermath/G-Unit associated artists, it is possible Trey will be featured on future projects from these artists too. Trey is also featured on Lil Eazy-E's upcoming single "This Ain't a Game", along with Bone Thugs-n-Harmony, where he sings the hook. He also appears on Yung Joc's "First Time".