Is it me? Am I the only one who has problems working with female R&B artists?Every time that I have begun working with one that I feel has a ton of potential, something always derails the whole process.

The first one that I worked with I started dating which effectively ended our working arrangement when the relationship didn’t work out. Ok, so maybe this one is my fault. Lesson learned. The second young lady that I worked with had an incredible voice and had some real songwriting talents. She stated that she had always dreamed of pursuing a singing career since she was a child. I believe she truly had the talent to succeed. We worked on two songs that came out amazing, and then…. the new boyfriend entered her life. I remember receiving the phone call two hours after our studio session was supposed to have begun stating that she was no longer going to sing because her boyfriend (of 5 days) didn’t want her too. WTF? Was this really her dream? Can you imagine if Beyonce would have stopped singing because of her boyfriend?

Which brings me to my current situation, Zahra. I met first Zahra when we were shooting the video for M.A.’s “What U R” (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFzXBNwjyjI&feature=channel_page – hey don’t laugh… I had just purchased my flip cam and wanted to use it for something). We needed a female to be in the video and so M.A. choose her. She stated she could sing but that she was working with someone else so I didn’t even mention anything about working with her.

Fast forward to December where one of the artists brought her through the studio to sing on a hook. When she sang, I was completely blown away. Such a large voice emitting from such a small frame. I let it be known that I wanted to work with her and that we needed to hook up. She agreed.

In January she sang some hooks on some tracks that I was trying to sell and in February we recorded our first song together, “If He Don’t Got Money”.

I thought the song came out really well, especially considering that she wrote in on the spot in about 5-10 minutes. I uploaded the song to Viddler and embedded it on 300 MySpace page profiles. The songs seems to have virally taken off. Check my Viddler stats as of this writing, the song has now be embedded 5,148 times. CAN YOU BELIEVE THAT? That’s within only a 5 day period.

I contact my dude J Hatch about letting her perform at the showcase he throws in Manhattan and the guys from Frostwire reached out to me about helping me to promote her album they we were working on once it was complete.

The problem is… for the past two weeks she’s missed our sessions and I haven’t heard too much from her. I don’t know what’s going on but now that we have the ball rolling, we just can’t let this momentum die. That’s just crazy and I hate to feel like I’m hunting someone down by calling all the time. I mean there’s a ton of people who love the opportunities she’s being given. How hard is it to find a female R&B artist to work with and have absolutely no drama?

So with that said, I’m still going to try and get something done with her but I think I’m going to shoot for like a 5 or 6 song EP as opposed to a full album so that we’ll have something out on the streets.

I’ll keep you updated.