TV One's UNSUNG Leads Off Season 12 with R&B Singing Group Silk on 2/18

TV One's signature music BIOGRAPHY is back for Season 12 with an episode all about R&B singing group SILK on February 18 at 9/8C. SILK took the R&B world by storm in the 1990s, with hits like Freak Me and Happy Days. But their success came with a cost, including management changes, the loss of their lead singer, and a restraining order from a former manager.

Silk is an R&B singing group formed in Atlanta, who began by harmonizing gospel songs at church, and were 'discovered' by singer Keith Sweat, who heard them at a family barbecue. Although the group's debut album went double platinum, the church-trained group was conflicted over singing highly sexualized bedroom songs. In response, they changed their sound for their second album, which hurt their popular appeal, then returned to form with their third album, a multi-platinum seller titled, Tonight.

The series sheds much-deserved light on some of the most influential, talented and, somehow, forgotten R&B, soul, funk, hip hop, disco, and gospel artists of the last 30 years. UNSUNG uncovers the personal triumphs and struggles of these musical legends.

Check out the trailer here: