Tyler Perry’s “Meet The Browns” Stars David & Tamela Mann to Release 2 New CD Projects

Kick Off the Summer With 2 New CD Projects, a Weekly TV Sitcom and an Upcoming Tyler Perry Movie
New CDs in Stores May 8, 2007

David & Tamela Mann are perhaps the funniest and best-known couple in urban America today thanks to their nearly decade long stint as Mr. Brown and Cora in Tyler Perry’s hilarious Madea plays. For the couple that got their start singing with Kirk Franklin & the Family, their time has finally come. This summer their new “Meet the Browns” TV sitcom will debut nationally and Tyler Perry will also begin shooting the couple’s first “Meet the Browns” motion picture.

In the meantime, the couple has great music for their fans. The Manns formed TillyMann Music Group to create their own music and projects back in 2004. Their first project, Tamela’s Gotta Keep Movin’ CD debuted at #3 on Billboard magazine’s gospel album sales chart. The project also landed at #16 on Billboard’s Heat seekers chart and at #26 on the magazine’s Independent album sales chart while the riveting single “Speak Lord” hit Billboard’s Top Ten Hot Gospel Songs chart in 2005.

Now, Tamela has taken those studio songs and re-recorded them in an incredible live concert at the state-of-the-art Calvary Church in Irving, TX with a five camera shoot in front of 2,000 screaming fans. The Tamela Mann Live Experience CD/DVD features Tamela’s smoking house band, Myron Butler & Levi’s thick choir vocals, special lighting effects and three slick costumes changes. In spite of the theatrics, the star of the show was Tamela’s powerful vocals wrapped around urban numbers such as “Alright” and heart-wrenching ballads such as the new radio single, “You Deserve My Praise.” On the same release date, David Mann makes his solo CD debut with Mr. Brown’s Good Ol’ Time Church. Performing in the Mr. Brown character, David has missed Sunday church service. He feels like he just needs to have church, so he calls his daughter, Cora, up on the phone and what ensues is an hour of hilarious skits and good old time church music with David singing with Pentecostal fervor.