Link (singer)

Link
Link in 2025
Link in 2025
Background information
Also known asMC Smooth, Needa S.
Born
Lincoln Browder
OriginDallas, Texas, U.S.
GenreR&B
Occupationsinger
Years active1980s–present

Lincoln Browder (born October 12, 1964), better known by his stage name Link, is an American R&B singer from Dallas, Texas. He is best known for his 1998 single “Whatcha Gonna Do”.

Career

Browder sang in gospel choirs as a youngster and in a group in high school. Darrell Delite Allamby recruited him to sing in the R&B group Protege.

After writing the hit "My Body" for the R&B supergroup LSG, Link was offered his own recording contract with Relativity Records. His 1998 debut album, Sex Down, spawned one Top 40 hit single in the US, "Whatcha Gonna Do?" (#23 Billboard Hot 100, #15 US Billboard R&B). The track peaked at #48 in the UK Singles Chart in November 1998. In addition a second charting single was issued, "I Don't Wanna See," which reached #43 on the US R&B chart and #25 on the Hot Singles Sales chart.

Link also wrote songs for Silk, Tony Thompson, Tamar Braxton, K-Ci & JoJo and Gerald Levert.

In 2008, he released his second album Creepin independently. Additionally, a digital single "Erotic" was released in 2013.

Discography

Albums

Year Title Chart positions
U.S. U.S. R&B
1998 Sex Down 187 46
2008 Creepin
  • Released: May 29, 2008
  • Label: Superstar Music Group
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Singles

Year Title Chart positions
U.S. U.S. R&B
1998 Whatcha Gone Do? 23 15
1999 I Don't Wanna See - 43
2013 Erotic - -

References

  1. ↑ Link at Allmusic
  2. ↑ Joel Whitburn, The Billboard Book of Top 40 Hits. 8th edn, 2004
  3. ↑ Roberts, David (2006). British Hit Singles & Albums (19th ed.). London: Guinness World Records Limited. p. 323. ISBN 1-904994-10-5.
  4. ↑ "CD Baby Music Store". Archived from the original on 2016-03-04.
  5. ↑ "Erotic - Single by Link on iTunes". iTunes. 14 February 2013.