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FIRST OF ALL CASSIE CAN DANCE U COULD SEE IT IN HER ITS JUS DAT SHE BE NERVOUS NO BULL!!!!!!!!! AND YALL BITCHES JUS MADDD CUZ SHE GOT A DEAL DONT HATE DA PLAYER HATE DA GAME!!!!!!!! AND DA GAME GOT FAKE HEADS AT LEAST DA PROBLEM WIT CASSIE IS DAT SHE SINGS LOW NOT DAT SHE CANT SOUND LIKE HER CD!!!!!!!LET ME GIVE YALL SUM 411 ON CASSIE, CASSIE'S 'Me & U' tops out at #1 on this week’s Billboard Rhythmic Airplay chart as well as #1 on R&R’s CHR/Rhythmic chart. Last week, 'Me & U' reached #1 on Billboard’s Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart, making Cassie the first female in nearly two years to hold the top spot on the chart. The single also ranks at #1 on Billboard’s Hot 100 Airplay chart for a third week in a row. 'Me & U' was the #1 most played video on MTV last week, and the #3 most played on BET. AND MOST OF ALL CONGRATS ON HAVING SOLD 38,887 ON UR DEBUT ALBUM MORE INFO 2 COME SOON CUZ CASSIE's DOIN IT B.I.GHERE ARE SUM CASSIE FACTS....1. SHE'S 202. SHE MOVED TO NEW YORK IN 2004 AND MODELED FOR A WHILE TO MAKE MONEY WHILE SHE PURSUED HER MUSIC CAREER (YES THAT WAS HER IN DELIA'S, TARGET, ABERCROMBIE, ADIDAS, AND A BUNCH OF OTHER CAMPAIGNS & CATALOGUES).3. SHE SIGNED WITH NEXTSELECTION (RYAN LESLIE'S LABEL) IN SPRING 2005 AND RECORDED HER FIRST SONG EVER (CALLED "KISS ME") WITH RYAN...HE PLAYED IT FOR TOMMY MOTTOLA, WHO SIGNED HER TO A MANAGEMENT DEAL ON THE SPOT.4. RYAN PRODUCED "ME & U" AND OTHER SONGS WHICH SHE RECORDED LAST SUMMER.5. RYAN TOOK HER ON TOUR WITH HIM TO GERMANY, WHERE THEY FIRST LEAKED "ME & U" - IT WAS A BIG SUCCESS...AND WHEN SHE CAME BACK, SHE STARTED HER MYSPACE PAGE WITH THE HELP OF RYAN'S PARTNER, RASHEED RICHMOND.6. YOU GUYS BLEW HER UP ON HERE (MYSPACE)!!!! ...AND BIG RECORD LABELS STARTED ASKING QUESTIONS.7. RYAN DECIDED TO TEAM UP WITH DIDDY TO RELEASE HER ALBUM THIS SUMMER.8. SHE HAS RECORDED A LOT OF NEW SONGS AND CAN'T WAIT TO SHARE THEM WITH EVERYONE!!! ...ESPECIALLY "LONG WAY 2 GO", WHICH YOU ARE ALL ASKING ABOUT FROM THE SHOWS I DID IN SAN JOSE & PORTLAND...9.HER REAL NAME IS CASSANDRA VENTURA, AND SHE HAS A BROTHER NAMED ROD RICK.10.HER MYSPACE IS WWW.MYSPACE.COM/CASSIEMYSPACEMUSIC (AND HER BROTHER IS ON HER TOP, LOOK OUT 4 HIM 2)U GO CASSIE WE ME (BETANIA) AND LESLEY DA ONES WHO MADE DIS FOR U LOVE U.. KEEP UP DA GOOD WORKHERE IS THE FULL BIO 2 OUR GURL CASSANDRA A.K.A CASSIECassie's BioR&B singer Cassie got her first taste of the music industry at 16 when she had the opportunity to speak with the producer Rockwilder, a meeting that inspired her to take formal voice lessons. This decision paid off nicely later on, when, after she'd graduated from high school and was working on her modeling career in New York, she became acquainted with producer Ryan Leslie. He encouraged her to pursue music more seriously, and in January 2005, Cassie's mother's request for a song provided the impetus to go into the studio with Leslie and record one. Tommy Mottola heard Cassie's work and signed her to a management deal, and with Leslie as her producer, the young singer joined P. Diddy's Bad Boy Entertainment in 2006. That same year, her self-titled debut album was released. ~ Marisa Brown, All Music Guide Crowned the "Princess of NextSelection" by the producer behind the brand, Ryan Leslie, singer Cassie burst onto the New York music scene completely by accident. Ryan was downtown at club Marquee with Usher, and noticed a new face in the crowd that night. Weeks later, he was surprised to run into her again at Diddy's birthday bash in November 2004. Aside from her multi-racial good looks (she's Filipino,Black,Mexican and Indian), he noticed something special about her personality, and was finally introduced to her by Diddy's make-up artist, who had worked with her before on a photoshoot. A year later, there is a swirl of promise around this talented young artist from New London, CT. Cassie has never done things the traditional way. When she graduated high school, she was the only student in her class to announce that she was not going to college, but was moving to New York to make it on her own, in "real life". Shortly after being introduced to Ryan, her mother requested that Cassie record a song for her as a birthday gift. She approached him about producing it, and since she had never been in the studio before, he put together a duet for them called "Kiss Me". As it turned out, Cassie's mother wasn't the only one who loved the song...Ryan played it for Tommy Mottola, former chairman of Sony, and the executive behind J. Lo, Jessica Simpson, Lindsay Lohan,Mariah Carey and dozens of others. He offered her a management deal on the spot. Weeks later, Cassie struck a deal with NextSelection to produce her album, and was invited on a promo tour in Germany to promote a single called "Me & U" that had been leaked on the internet and become a huge club hit there. Though it was hard to believe, before she knew it, she was on her way to becoming an international celebrity, performing for thousands of fans, signing her first autographs, and taking pictures with DJs that fell in love with her sweet attitude and girl-next-door personality. Then came the requests... R&B singer Mario invited her to be the lead (and only) girl in the video for his single "Here I Go Again", Missy Elliot picked Cassie to be the face of her Adidas "Respect M.E." clothing line, Clean & Clear put her in a commercial, Complex magazine featured her in a swimsuit spread, and Target department store chose her to be on their prime billboard space in Times Square. Judging by this whirlwind of success over the past year, Cassie's future seems to have "star" written in it. Not bad for a girl who broke a school tradition to follow her heart and write her own rules.Other Facts About Cassie:Her Full Name is Casandra VenturaHer birthday is August 26th, 1986 She's from New London,ConnecticutHer race Filipino,Black,Mexican and indian.She was also a model Her favortie trip is Saint Jean, Virgin Islands Her favortie Sport is Soccer Her favortie song is Prince-Darling Nicky Cassie started modeling when she was 14 and she modeled for Delias's, Target, Abercombia, Adidas And she signed with Next Selection and Bad Boy EntertainmentCassie's parents and older(RodRick) brother still live in New London, attended both The Williams School and the Interdistrict School for Arts And Communication. At both schools she studied the arts: piano, flute, dance, composition, and voice. At ISAAC, she and two other students composed an original score for a half-hour stage production. But when many of her classmates in The Williams School's 2004 graduating class headed off to college, Cassie had other plans. She wanted to head to New York City and pursue a career in modeling. While a student at Williams, she had already laid the groundwork, taking modeling jobs in the city as her schedule allowed.“She was always beautiful, even when she was in middle school,” says Kate Fioravanti, ISAAC's arts director and head teacher. “If there was someone who was going to be famous from ISAAC, I'm glad it's her. She's just a wonderful person and a phenomenal student, and very talented. I'm so proud of her. There's just not enough wonderful things I could say about Cassie.”If you haven't seen Cassie, you obviously haven't been watching MTV's “Total Request Live.” She's been on the show, and her video was on the top five for several weeks. Her single, “Me and U,” is also blowing up the radio airwaves and making a mark on iTunes.Cassie has talent, but she admits wholeheartedly that she was in the right place at the right time. How else would you go from struggling to find a landlord who will rent to a high school graduate to having a car drive you between photo shoots for GQ and meetings with the biggest music moguls in the world?After moving to New York City with her best friend and struggling to find an affordable place to live, Cassie met producer Ryan Leslie at a party. The two started hanging out together, but Cassie didn't tell the successful producer that she sang.“I didn't say anything to Ryan at first,” she says. “But I also knew that I wanted to do more than modeling. There's nothing wrong with modeling — I have lots of friends who still do it and that's fine — but I just knew I had something more in me, and I wanted to explore that.”When Cassie told her mother that she had started hanging out with Leslie, her mother requested that Cassie record a song for her birthday. The song, a duet with Leslie called “Kiss Me,” which Cassie claims was only meant to be a present, went really well, and Leslie passed the track on to famed producer and former Sony chairman Tommy “I discovered Mariah Carey” Mottola. Mottola offered Cassie a management deal almost immediately, and signed her to Bad Boy Worldwide Entertainment Group, of which Bad Boy Records is a subsidiary.Like many artists who've achieved some fame in the 21st century, Cassie has the Internet to thank in part for her expressway to success. Myspace.com, along with Leslie's blog site www.NS4life.com(Leslie's music-focused media company is called NextSelection Lifestyle Group), which both have up-to-date blogs about Cassie's whirlwind experience, have helped to generate a healthy amount of buzz for the young singer even before her record is out. Internet buzz, along with the help of Bad Boy and some promotional touring in Germany and the United States, has put Cassie in the kind of position that rockets artists into the upper echelon of stardom.It doesn't hurt that Cassie was first a model. Her beautiful Filipino and African American features put her on a giant Target billboard in Times Square, and landed her a gig as the face of rapper Missy Elliot's Adidas “Respect M.E.” clothing line. And the lyrics to Cassie's single, “Me and U” are textbook sex-sells stuff (“I'll love you all the way down/ get you right where you like it/ I promise you'll like it/ just relax and let me make a move/ it's our secret thing/ we'll keep it between me and you”).“It's definitely a risqué song,” Cassie admits, “but everyone's supportive — I don't even know if my grandparents really listened to the lyrics. Maybe they did. That's why we kept the video kind of clean. People keep asking me who the song is about, but it's not about anybody. I didn't write it. It was demo'd and I heard the tune, and I thought it would be wonderful to sing.”Of course, for a beautiful young woman — or anybody impressionable for that matter — the modeling and music businesses aren't exactly the safest industries, and they don't always draw the most scrupulous people. Cassie says she's already had to deal with a number of difficult situations, and anyone's parents would worry about a daughter who isn't old enough to buy a beer navigating these treacherous waters.“I was really worried when she first moved to the city, but the building was secure and she came home a lot,” says Cassie's mother Regina, who works at Pfizer. “And the tabloids scare you. When she first got this deal, I wanted to go and look these people in the eye and let them know that I'm not far away. Tommy Mottola and P. Diddy were very gracious — they didn't have to meet with us at all since Cassie's old enough to sign contracts herself, but they did anyway and I appreciate that.”Regina says that she gets a weekly update from one of Mottola's assistants, letting her know exactly what is planned for her daughter, where she will be on what day and what her schedule includes. She also calls her daughter every day.“I need to hear her voice” she says. “I'll probably keep doing that for a long time, even if she doesn't like it.”For now, Cassie loves being in touch with her family, and gets to New London whenever she can, visiting Captain Scott's for seafood and spending time at home. Just as she did when she left for the big city two years ago, Cassie knows what she wants.“I'll always love performing, like that's my thing,” she says. “I want to be able to do major tours too over the next five years or something. That's sort of what I did with modeling, like I did it for five years and then moved on to something else. Who knows, maybe in five years I'll take a break from music and try to do some acting, or go back to modeling. You never know what can happen.”Cassie's debut full-length CD, which was released on August 8 th