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Early life
Rogers was born in Fitchburg, Massachusetts, to an African-American father and a South Korean mother. Her father was in the United States military, so Amerie traveled to and lived in many different places, including Alaska, Texas, Germany, and South Korea. She has a younger sister, Angela Rogers, who is now her lawyer.

She graduated from Georgetown University with a degree in English and Fine Arts. She has a younger sister, Angela, who is enrolled in a law school in Baltimore, Maryland. Amerie's first language is Korean. However, after the family left Seoul, where they had lived for several years, Amerie's mother made a conscious effort to limit the use of Korean with her daughters out of fear that it would impede their development of English proficiency. In an interview with KoreAm Journal, Amerie stated that she is now only "conversational" in the Korean language and speaks it at home with her mother, Angela, and extended Korean family memberscitation needed. Amerie also bears a tattoo featuring her given name in Korean script on her lower back. Amerie is noted for signing her name in both English and Korean when giving autographs.

Music career
Amerie received her big break in 2001 when she was featured on a track from Nas' fifth studio album Stillmatic entitled "Rule". Throughout early 2002, Amerie's single, "Why Don't We Fall In Love," from her debut album All I Have, received much urban radio airplay. Producer Rich Harrison wrote and produced All I Have in its entirety, except for the track "Outro" which Amerie co-wrote. Amerie's album was released amid the success of her "Why Don't We Fall In Love" single, and the media immediately began to judge her successes against those of other recent female R&B artists such as Tweet and Ashanti.

The album's next single, "Talkin' To Me," did not hit nearly as big at urban radio, yet its video still enjoyed strong support from MTV2. VH1 Soul has been known to play both of Amerie's videos with regularity since their debuts, and MTV Jams still occasionally spins "Why Don't We Fall In Love." The album was a surprise success, going Gold with 723,000 units sold in America and 1,6 million sold worldwide.

In fall of 2002, she once again continued solo and released a cover of the Diana Ross' 1980's classic "I'm Coming Out" as a single for the soundtrack to the 2002's film Maid in Manhattan. Afterwards, in 2003, Amerie returned to the music scene briefly as a featured vocalist, first on LL Cool J's "Paradise" (a top 20 entry in the UK and a top 40 in the U.S.) and later on DJ Kayslay's "Too Much For Me" singing background. Although their videos received attention from digital music video channels, neither single went on to become a hit.

Around this time, Amerie also spent some time as the host of a brand new show on BET called The Center. However, she left the show before her contract was up because she had been offered a supporting role as Mia Thompson in the 2004's romantic comedy First Daughter alongside Michael Keaton, Katie Holmes, Lela Rochon, and Marc Blucas.

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