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Shari Watson (born October 10, 1971 in St. Louis, Missouri), known as Truth Hurts, is an United States|American R&B singer. She is noted for her funk music|funky and powerful vocal style.

Biography
Her father worked as a concert promoter, helping to bring acts such as the Pointer Sisters and Phyllis Hyman to St. Louis audiences. Thus exposed to music at an early age, Truth developed a passion for singing. Her mother quickly recognized the girl's talent and signed her up for lessons. By the mid-1980s, Watson got help her cousin, who played with a St. Louis cover band called Mystic Voyage. The cousin brought Watson into the band, and soon she was singing regularly at St. Louis clubs that she wasn't old enough to enter as an audience member.

Coming out of high school, Truth turned down an opera scholarship to the University of Chicago so that she could pursue a career in popular music. A break came after she formed an R&B duo called Shug & Dap in the early 1990s with a friend. Shug & Dap released a single called "Anotha Man" on the Giant Records label in 1994 but. However, Giant went of out business and project was shelved immediately.

After her project being dropped, she become a songwriter for such acts as Mario Winans, Monifah, Shanice, and others during the rest of the 1990s. In 2000, Watson signed to Dr. Dre's Aftermath Entertai... read all