Your Woman (album)

Released as the album's lead single on February 27, 2001, "Heard It All Before" reached the top ten on both the UK Singles Chart and the US Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles & Tracks chart while peaking at the number 18 on the Billboard Hot 100. A second single, "Lunch or Dinner" was released in September 2001.

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| rev1Score = {{Rating|3|5}}{{cite web|first=Jon|last=Azpiri|title=Your Woman|work=AllMusic|url={{AllMusic|class=album|id=mw0000002377|pure_url=yes}}|access-date=July 8, 2020}}

| rev2 = Blender

| rev2Score = {{Rating|3|5}}{{cite web|last=Harris|first=Keith|title=Solid if conventional R&B; debut from Macy Gray’s labelmate and protégée |url=http://www.blender.com/guide/reviews/index_89.html |website=Blender |access-date=September 29, 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20030405130512/http://www.blender.com/guide/reviews/index_89.html|archive-date=April 5, 2003}}

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AllMusic editor Jon Azpiri wrote that "while too many pop and R&B divas rely on Mariah Carey-like vocal histrionics, Sunshine Anderson wins over fans with her understated maturity [...] Your Woman features some solid production by Mike City and Mark Spark, and rather than trying to overpower the music with her voice, Anderson has enough confidence to just go along for the ride." Blender critic Keith Harris found thath "despite able pop-tinged jazz-soul production from Mike City, though, the album never surpasses its jaunty first single [...] By mid-album, the arrangements peter out into a redundant bounce of piano and drum over which Anderson launches into Mariah-like vocal runs. Yet graceful melodies like "Lunch and Dinner" suggest a burgeoning singer who might well blossom into her own diva someday soon."

{{Track listing

| extra_column = Producer(s)

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| title1 = A Little Sunshine (Intro)

| writer1 = Michael Flowers

| extra1 = Mike City

| length1 = 0:36

| title2 = Better Off

| writer2 = Flowers

| extra2 = City

| length2 = 4:04

| title3 = He Said, She Said

| writer3 = Flowers

| extra3 = City

| length3 = 3:35

| title4 =Heard It All Before

| writer4 = {{hlist|Flowers|Sunshine Anderson|Rayshawn Sherrer|Chris Dawley}}

| extra4 = City

| length4 = 4:54

| title5 = Vulnerability (Skit)

| writer5 = {{hlist|Mark Sparks|Jimane Nelson}}

| extra5 = {{hlist|Sparks|Nelson}}

| length5 = 1:02

| title6 = Letting Down My Guard

| writer6 = Flowers

| extra6 = City

| length6 = 3:49

| title7 = Where Have You Been

| writer7 = Flowers

| extra7 = City

| length7 = 4:12

| title8 = Saved the Day

| writer8 = Flowers

| extra8 = City

| length8 = 3:29

| title9 = Lunch or Dinner

| writer9 = Flowers

| extra9 = City

| length9 = 4:06

| title10 = Last Night

| note10 = featuring Anthony Hamilton & Dolo Pachino

| writer10 = {{hlist|Flowers|Anderson|Hamilton|Ricky Elliott}}

| extra10 = City

| length10 = 4:12

| title11 = Your Woman (Interlude)

| writer11 = Flowers

| extra11 = City

| length11 = 1:16

| title12 = Your Woman

| writer12 = Flowers

| extra12 = City

| length12 = 3:29

| title13 = Airport (Skit)

| writer13 = Sparks

| extra13 = Sparks

| length13 = 2:10

| title14 = Being Away

| writer14 = {{hlist|Flowers|Loris Holland}}

| extra14 = City

| length14 = 4:12

| title15 = Crazy Love

| writer15 = {{hlist|Sparks|Flowers|Anderson|Erick Walls|Erick T. Coomes}}

| extra15 = {{hlist|Sparks|Walls{{ref|A|[A]}}|Coomes{{ref|A|[A]}}}}

| length15 = 4:38

| title16 = You Do You

| writer16 = {{hlist|Sparks|Flowers|Anderson|Johnny Mercier|Michael Lindsey}}

| extra16 = {{hlist|Sparks|Mercier{{ref|A|[A]}}|Lindsey{{ref|A|[A]}}}}

| length16 = 4:00

| title17 = Spoken Word (Skit)

| writer17 = {{hlist|Sparks|Flowers|Anderson|Walls|Coomes}}

| extra17 = {{hlist|Sparks|Walls{{ref|A|[A]}}|Coomes{{ref|A|[A]}}}}

| length17 = 1:56

| title18 = A Little Sunshine

| writer18 = Flowers

| extra18 = City

| length18 = 3:38

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• Kwaku Alston – photography
• Sunshine Anderson – vocals
• Richard Bates – art direction
• Mike City – backing vocals, executive producer, instruments
• Douglas Coleman – recording engineer
• Erick T. Coomes – bass
• Mikey Dan – backing vocals
• Chris Dawley – executive producer
• Timothy Deberry – backing vocals
• Larry Furgerrson – mastering
• Brian Gardner – mastering
• Lalah Hathaway – backing vocals
• Shayne Ivy – design
• Michael Linsdey – bass
• Manny Marroquin – mixing
• Johnny Mercier – keyboards
• Mark Mitchell – recording engineer
• Jimanie Nelson – keyboards
• Mike Potivch – recording engineer
• Jesse "Biz" Stewart – recording engineer
• James "Storm" Singletary – drum programming
• Mark Sparks – executive producer, drum programming
• Erick Walls – guitar

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