Joe Little III

Joe N Little III (born July 14, 1968) is an American singer, songwriter and producer who is best known as the lead singer of the 1990s R&B group, Rude Boys, who had two No. 1 R&B singles, "Written All Over Your Face" and "Are You Lonely For Me", on Billboard's R&B/Hip Hop Chart. They received a Billboard Music Award for "Written All Over Your Face", as the No. 1 R&B song of 1991.

In 1990, Rude Boys released their debut album entitled, "Rude Awakening" releasing 4 singles, "Heaven", "Come Let's Do This", and their two Billboard top charting No.1 R&B hits, "Written All Over Your Face" a top 20 on Billboard's Top 100 chart, and "Are You Lonely For Me". They released two more albums: "Rude House" in 1992 and "Rude As Ever" in 1997. In 2000, Little and Levert co-wrote and produced the singles "Selfish Reasons" and "Proven and True" for The Temptations' album "Ear-Resistible", which won a Grammy Award for Best Traditional R&B Vocal Album.

Solo projects In 1994, as solo artist, Little released his debut album entitled, "Puttin' It Down" on Atlantic Records under the name J. Little. four singles, "When I Think Of You", "Beautiful", "Holiday Song" and "All Of Me" on his own label, Brother 2 Brother International. In September of that year, Little participated in the group Black Men United along with Al B. Sure, Keith Sweat, El DeBarge, Christopher Williams, Brian McKnight and Little's then-mentor Gerald Levert recording the track "U Will Know" from the soundtrack to Doug McHenry's 1994 film Jason's Lyric.

Other work In 2010, Little opened a coffee shop in Cleveland, Ohio where he grew up named, Urbean Joe Coffee House on St. Clair Avenue near 152nd Street. He opened a second location in May 2011 at Larchmere Boulevard near Shaker Square.

Discography Rude Boys Albums Rude Awakening - 1990 Rude House - 1992 Rude As Ever - 1997

Singles Come On Let's Do It - 1990 Written All Over Your Face - 1990 Are You Lonely For Me - 1991 Heaven - 1991 My Kind Of Girl - 1993 Go Ahead And Cry - 1993 Nothing To One - 1997

Solo Albums Puttin' It Down - 1994

Singles When I Think Of You - 2019 Beautiful - 2020 Holiday Song - 2021 All Of Me - 2021