Accidental Demise - The Charmayne Maxwell Story (Brownstone)

Well, here's another video that you all requested and asked me to remake. Yeah, you know, I made this video maybe three or four years ago on the channel, but the video was only two minutes and 46 seconds long. Wow, I must have. shy to get on the mic, so man, I don't know what I was really doing, but now let's really get into this

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, we're going to delve into the life of singer Maxie, who the world knows as Charmaine Maxwell of the female category. rb

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group now i love me some

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. I always thought they were a great vocal trio.

Also, in the days before, I remember seeing them. Everyone knows what all the girls used to dress the same in the past as if they were from the neighborhood. swv with the baggy clothes j tlc all of them brownstone 2 but i must say this is probably one of the craziest stories i have ever heard about the death of crazy charmaine this is a crazy

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but that being said now brownstone true great group great r b group all the members i love all the members tasha brown uh Keena Kosper but I love the original lineup charmaine

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aka maxie nicole gilbert aka nikki and monica dobie aka mimi and with their voices combined it was like their voices combined right, it was like a powerhouse of soul and gospel mixed together or something, I can't even explain it.

They sound like a full church choir, but there are only three. Wow, there's power in her vocals, man, because look, Nikki, Nikki had that kind of gospel. mimi voice to hit those high notes because she came from a jazz music background and maxie was shy but she had a soulful voice and she could do all the high notes jazz gospel all that because she looked maxi maxi was born in Guyana South America and when she became a teenager she moved to Los Angeles to pursue an acting career and be a singer and when she got to Los Angeles it was difficult and you know, trying to make it in the entertainment business during that time was not easy. she would go to all these auditions all the time and she wouldn't get any jobs, but look, she never gave up, although Maxie never gave up and she continued to go to the auditions and she started to notice that she kept seeing these two girls at the auditions that she was going to. to go all the time and they were competing against each other singing, but you know, the two girls there were Nikki Gilbert and Mimi.

Now look, Nikki Gilbert was from Detroit and had come to Los Angeles to make it as a singer. Also and Mimi was from New Orleans and was chasing the same dream but at the time they were all just struggling solo artists trying to break into the music industry after meeting each other at auditions and admiring each other's singing skills, it was then when Nicki arrived. with the idea that they should come together and form a group and once they started singing and combining their voices and the chemistry was good, they realized that they had something special, now after that they needed a name and decided to use the name brownstone because brown is the earth and the stone is solid maxi said in the interview that the name represents the different skin tones of the group and the fact that they were all strong women and were like stones because the stones are unbreakable now after that and once they became a trio and a group they started performing anywhere that would allow them to sing and people wanted to hear them but it was still a struggle, they are still trying to get a record deal let's see maxie right maxie was a beautiful tall, dark-skinned woman who looked like a model and one day some guys wanted her to appear in a music video but everything didn't go as planned, they never made it to the video shoot.

Some crazy disaster had happened where Nicki ended up stranded in the desert or something. It happened, Nikki said in an interview that you can see on youtube, but anyway, the next day, those same guys that left them stranded in the desert, whatever those same guys wanted to make it up to them and ended up introducing them to some music publishers important. but the music editors weren't interested after hearing them sing, they didn't think any voice would disappoint them, so maxie nicki and mimi just as they were leaving the audition, two white women outside were listening to the entire audition. and i asked them to sing because they thought they sounded great and i wanted to help them, so look the next day those women at that audition those women took them to meet a guy named jerry greenberg who at the time was michael jackson's president. new label called mjj records, which was a joint venture through sony records, but look when they met jerry greenberg, they didn't know he worked for michael jackson and when they auditioned for jerry greenberg, they instantly fell in love with his vocals. and he wanted to sign, he wanted to sign him and he wanted them to sing again at one of his conferences because he wanted them to meet someone special, so weeks later at his conference the brownstone sank again, but this time with a sungat it was a real almost completely black dark room with bright lights shining on them and when they finished singing that's when michael jackson came out from behind the curtains wow, that's crazy and look, he loved their sound michael michael told them that this sound was extraordinary and that I wanted them to do it.

Being the first artist to sign with his record label, can you imagine? Man, everyone rejects you without trying to sign you and then the king of pop himself, Michael Jackson, ends up signing you to his label. That's crazy, dream come true, man, they say, uh, The acapella song that they did and got signed was "If you love me" lyrics wow man, that's crazy to sign with michael uh jackson man, I think at that moment michael had just dated lisa marie presley but right now with a record deal anyway. They started working on songs for their debut album and at that time there were many girl groups that were doing something like I said before, changing faces swv j escape tlc etc. brownstone was ready, everyone was in charge of the game, they were hungry and michael.

Jackson was the executive producer of the album, but it wasn't like he was in the studio with him every day, but he did have input on the album. I think Michael at that time had published the previous president's story. future double album, whatever it was, she had the song screen with janet jackson now also at that time, right, maxie maxie ended up beating her future husband, carlston soul shot, who was a music producer hired to work on her album debut, now carlson soul shock, right? a white danish producer who was part of a duo called soul shock and carlin and made music for a lot of people, his catalog looks so amazing that he made whitney houston's heartbreaking hotel, tupac's me against the world and i do it for love, you got it evil. he did tony braxton i love him brandy and john yay morris heartbroken he did monica before you walked out of my life i thought i always thought dallas austin made that fantasy uh song the truth is backstreet boys pit bull chris brown a lot of people he worked with, right, this guy is so surprised he's worked a lot over the years, make sure everyone checks out his output, checks out his catalog and he was a judge later, he was later a judge on the x factor in Denmark. version, but anyway, right, Maxie and Soul Shock fell in love and ended up getting married and on August 11, 1994, Brownstone released his first single after 11.

I remember that song, I like that song because Nikki Nikki Gilbert spent a little rap in that song. also, but look, it was the second single, although the second single from this album from the bottom up, this one took them to another level, if you love me, which was released on October 24, 1994, man, that was my joint, Nikki Gilbert with that powerful voice. and when maxie was playing the high notes for them and that he was done, that song would be the biggest hit of his career, reaching number eight on both the US Billboard Hot 100 and the UK singles chart, as well as number two on the Billboard Hot R B Singles Chart.

It also topped the New Zealand singles chart for five weeks and reached the top 20 in Australia, France, Ireland and the Netherlands. Additionally, he was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best R B Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal in 1996, but you know who? 1996, you know what they lost with the tlc creep song, which is the same Grammy with tlc when up there they told the world that they were broken, they had no money, that's crazy, but anyway the song if you if you love me earned five Billboard Music Award nominations. one of r b's best singles the song was big that song helped his debut album from the bottom up become certified platinum not to mention years later much later it was sampled by rapper tory lanez and became a great success for him. was big at the time, I remember seeing it on the cover of Jet magazine and everything, now the title of the third single, Gravine, was also great and did pretty well on the charts, peaking at number 49 on the Billboard Hot 100 Singles , number six on the US hot r b singles chart and number 16 on a UK singles chart now maxie wright she really showed her voice on the title of the fourth single i can't tell you why it was a remake of a version by the rock group Eagles and they did it because someone from the label asked them to do a version of that song and Beautiful Man came out, beautiful song.

Now after Brownstone was in demand, everyone wanted to see them and they ended up joining um boys to men on a sold out US tour, they were doing shows. with patti labelle, anita baker, frankie beverly and mays, black street was hot at the time, they did shows with them, man it was in japan, australia, they were everywhere, they were featured on the song freedom also from the soundtrack of the movie Panther, uh, but look, here's the thing. The album was successful but the girls began to have some problems with each other. Nikki and Maxie were great, but Mimi had some problems and there really weren't any problems, but Mimi just decided that the music business just wasn't for her and she had some health.

Additionally, she had very bad bronchitis, so she ended up leaving the group and became a school teacher. After that, they added a new member named Kena Kosper to the group and on June 23, 1997, they released their second and final studio album titled Still Climbing With. the single Five Miles to Empty, which I thought was a good song, also Five Miles to Empty, is also a good song and the song did pretty well, peaking at number 39 on the Billboard Hot 100 and number six on the Billboard Hot R B Singles Chart. They pushed to have the album certified gold and went out to promote the album on a European tour, then joined Keith Sweat for several concerts in the United States, but overall, the album was not as big as the first album. it just didn't make much noise because of the lack of promotion from the label, the label didn't really promote it, that's why the sales of the album were low because if you go back and listen to that album, listen to it, it really was a great album for 1997, man , that was a good album, a lot of good music came out that year 1997 and that album that keeps going up was one of them, even though the album didn't do well, a lot of people still respected them and their talent in the industry and in 1998 they had a song on the players club soundtrack called don't play me bad um they had a song on the movie the movie soundtrack of woo wu called looking for love and they had a song called party here on the journey soundtrack of the movie after that second album the group broke up and went their separate ways and everyone started making music on their own and maxie maxie started working on her demo to pursue her solo career now a bunch of labels wanted to sign her but they wanted her .

She still did the same music that she was known for with Brownstone, but she wasn't interested in that, she didn't want to do that kind of music anymore, I mean, she still did it, she still did R B but she wanted to do something different. like alternative pop rock, other types of genres because she was a multi-talented vocalist, she could pull it off, she was cool and she ended up signing a record deal with Mercury Wreckers, which led her to move to London, now her debut solo single title , When I Look. into your eyes did quite well in the UK and reached number one, they say they're pretty good there in the UK, but their second single was called uh, this is where I want to be, don't make any noise on the charts in general and overall, although he had success on his solo album, he had some success after that, although years later, everyone in the group continued to make albums, solo albums, did other things and ended up getting back together, did some tasks We're still doing shows, then they settled down, had kids and just lived their life.

I know Maxi and Soul Shock had a child together and just stepped back and spent time raising their family. I know Nikki Gilbert became an entrepreneur. she doing her thing on television in movies and was executive producer of the show r b divas and many other things and in 2015, nikki nikki had brought an idea to maxie about ashow she wanted to do, which was about women who were once successful but then lost everything in the public eye just like them and she wanted to name the show after the title of her first album from bottom to top and maxie liked it. loved the idea, loved the idea and told her it was a good idea and that's when Nikki I took it to Queen Latifah's hat and the show got the green light on the bet, but look, while I was putting the show together that's when the tragedy because on February 28, 2015, Charmaine Maxwell died after having a freak accident in Los Angeles at our home.

Now the story. Now, let's get into this story because it's a crazy story, now the story goes right on that day, which I think was a Saturday, she had just come home from her son's soccer game and after the game she went home and started drinking. , he was drinking some wine and the next thing you know, they say, he slid back through a door between the house and the backyard while holding a wine glass and the wine glass fell and shattered first on the ground, leaving pieces of broken glass. everywhere and as he was falling he landed exactly on the broken glass the glass had broken on the ground right behind his head and he landed right on it shaking my head man that's terrible see the broken glass cut through his neck .

As her body fell to the ground, glass shards pierced the back of her neck in two places. Hours later, her husband and her son returned home from the soccer game and that was when they found her bleeding and not unconscious, and that was when her husband's soul was found. shot called 9-1-1 and the paramedics arrived and on her way to the hospital, although she had lost too much blood from her wounds that were so deep in her neck that it was too late to save her and she died man, it's crazy now, Once her death was announced to the media, many people questioned whether her death was an accident or foul play and some media outlets even began to report that she suffered from depression and committed suicide, but Maxi's brother Brandon Maxwell denied the rumors. that his sister's death was a suicide and he said in a tweet that people are so dumb, this is actually nonsense, that's what he posted in the tweet, he said people are so dumb, this is actually a nonsense and it also had a link, I guess it had a link to that site that said she was depressed and committed suicide or something, but also, you know, the police investigated and claimed that she just fell and the glass broke on The ground and glass shards pierced the back of her head in two different places.

She also had a wound on the back of her head in some places, so she was probably unconscious while bleeding, plus there was no history of domestic violence between them, her and her husband, so they confirmed that there was no plague and that his death was only because of them. I just said that her death was a freak accident. Wow, that's terrible, man, and they were supposed to do an autopsy to determine the official cause of death, but I couldn't find that in the investigation, anywhere, I researched all the times, I couldn't find it now. nikki gilbert said she's publishing a book, she has a book, she says it's ready, she's just going over it, but nikki gilbert said she's publishing a book that's coming out soon and that's why she doesn't really talk about maxie's death because he's putting everything in a book so stay tuned so let's see what he had to say about the whole thing, maybe it can shed some light on his death because they were best friends and talked all the time.

That's the crazy one, Charmaine Maxwell was 46 years old. Rest in peace charmaine maxie

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