Jagged Edge

This rough-but-smooth male vocal quartet Jagged Edge formed in Atlanta, consisting of
identical twin brothers Brandon "Case Dinero" Casey and Brian "Brasco" Casey, who had
moved from their native Hartford, CT; Kyle Norman (aka "Quick"), whom they'd met through
church activities; and Richard Wingo (aka "Wingo Dollar"), a late addition to the group
suggested by Xscape's Kandi Burress, who took their demo to superproducer Jermaine Dupri.
Jagged Edge signed to Dupri's So So Def label and in the summer of 1997 released their debut
single, "The Way That You Talk," featuring appearances by Dupri and Da Brat; it reached the
Top 40 of the R&B chart and was also a pop chart entry. Early in 1998, Jagged Edge released
their first album, A Jagged Era, which went gold and spawned the Top 20 R&B, Top 40 pop
hit "Gotta Be." Their next single, "He Can't Love U," appeared in the fall of 1998 and reached
the Top Five of the R&B chart and the Top 20 of the pop chart, going gold in the process. It
prefaced the group's second album, J.E. Heartbreak, which topped the R&B chart and hit the
Top Ten of the pop chart, selling over 2,000,000 copies and spawning the number one R&B hits
"Let's Get Married" (also Top 20 pop) and "Promise" (also Top Ten pop). By the time of the
release of Jagged Edge's third album, Jagged Little Thrill, in late June 2001, its lead-off single,
"Where the Party At" (featuring Nelly), was nearing the R&B Top Ten and was in the pop
Top 40.