Chonita Coleman

Chonita Coleman (born in 1971 in Portsmouth, Virginia) is an American singer-songwriter. In 1993 Chonita went to New York and live in a two story house with the Swing Mob Crew called the Bassment. While there, Coleman, Missy Elliott, LaShawn Shellman, and Radiah Scott wrote many songs for their group, Sista.

High School

Chonita attended I.C. Norcom High School. She was friends with Missy Elliott, even though Elliott did not attend I.C. Norcom.

Sista

In the 1990 Missy Elliott, LaShawn Shellman, Chonita Coleman, and Radiah Scott formed an R&B group called Sista, for which Elliott served as a singer and songwriter. She recruited her neighborhood friend Timothy Mosley as the group's producer and began making demo tracks. In 1991, Sista caught the attention of Jodeci member/producer DeVante Swing by performing Jodeci songs acapella for him backstage after one of his group's concerts. In short order, Sista moved to New York City, signed to Elektra Records through DeVante's Swing Mob imprint. Elliott took Mosley (whom DeVante re-christened Timbaland) and their friend Melvin "Magoo" Barcliff along with her. All 20-plus members of the Swing Mob, among them future stars such as Ginuwine, Playa, and Tweet, lived in a single two-story house in New York and were often at work on material both for Jodeci and for their own projects. Timbaland and DeVante produced a Sista LP, 4 All the Sistas Around the World, completed in 1994. Though videos were released for the original and remix versions of the single "Brand New," the album was shelved and never released. By 1995, Swing Mob had folded and many of its members dispersed.

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