Naturi Naughton

Naturi Naughton is an American singer, songwriter, and actress. She portrays Jill aka Da Thrill on ABC's Queens.

Biography
Brenda, a part-time paralegal, and Ezra Naughton, a retired accountant, raised Naughton in East Orange, New Jersey, where she was born and raised. She began singing in the church choir at New Hope Baptist Church in Newark, New Jersey, when she was five years old (the same church where Whitney Houston performed in her youth). In Montclair, New Jersey, she went to St. Joseph's Catholic school and Immaculate Conception High School. She attended Seton Hall University and performed the national anthem at different occasions in New Jersey.

Naughton formed 3LW with Adrienne Bailon and Kiely Williams when she was 15 years old. On December 5, 2000, the group's debut album, 3LW, was released. The album went platinum in the United States, selling 1.3 million copies. The trio joined Destiny's Child, Dream, Nelly, Eve, and Jessica Simpson on the MTV TRL tour in the summer of 2001. 3LW spent the first half of 2002 producing an album tentatively titled Same Game, Different Rules in the studio.

On August 25, 2009, Naughton recorded five tracks for the Fame soundtrack, which was released. Naughton's rendition of Fame, which peaked at No. 33 on the UK Singles Chart the following month, was her first solo chart hit.

In season one of the Lifetime television drama series The Client List, Naughton played Kendra, a series regular. Naughton played Tasha St. Patrick in the Starz drama Power, and she reprised her character in the spin-off series Power Book II: Ghost.