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Floetry Singer Marsha Ambrosius has signed a solo recording deal with hip-hop hitmaker Dr. Dre’s Aftermath Records. Marsha thrilled at the chance to work with Dre, who has only worked on a few projects in recent years. “It’s not like he offers to do an album with everybody,” she said.

Actually the invitation to work with the rapper-producer came when Ambrosius and partner Natalie Stewart were performing two Floetry shows at The Roxy in Los Angeles last year. The audience included a number of other music makers, including Dre and Prince. Ambrosius ran into Dre later the same week, and when he played her a track she soon found herself in his studio, singing the vocal hook. The seeds for the Ambrosius solo project were sown.

The group has been nominated for a Best Urban/Alternative Performance Grammy this year for another track from Flo’Ology called “SupaStar”. Ambrosius recently explained that the group’s unique sound puts it into a genre of its own, called “floetry”: “This is a creative album by two chicks from Britain. She’s a poet, I’m a singer. We put our collaboration, it’s floetry–floetry is the genre.”