![]() ![]() "Who wouldn't get excited at the idea of your son making millions?" she asks.īut Sammie and his family were not going to see millions anytime soon. She left her job in community economic development to devote herself full time to her son's career. "I was well aware of the sacrifices I knew it wasn't going to be easy," says Sammie's mother Baxter. As part of the deal, Austin moved Sammie's family to his studios in Atlanta last summer. "There's a lot of great singers, and if they don't have the confidence and the personality to go along with, then it's not the full package, but with him you could tell he's got the full package," Austin says.Īustin signed Sammie to a six-year recording contract with the backing of Capitol Records. "Just because a kid can sing it doesn't mean that you know they have the ability to be a star," says Austin, who has scored platinum record hits for Boyz II Men and TLC. Irby took Sammie under her wing and put him in touch with Grammy award-winning producer Dallas Austin. "All I could think about was, I got to get to him before a horde of people do," she adds.
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