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Al Sherrod Lambert

American singer

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
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Source revisionJul 6, 2026
Entity authorityQ64009086 ↗
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Al Sherrod Lambert ( SHERR-əd; born June 29, 1985), sometimes known as simply A-Rod, is a Grammy Award winning American producer, singer, songwriter, and musician. He has won recognition as a gospel, pop, hip hop and R&B producer. He is signed to Kobalt Music Group and is a registered BMI songwriter.

Personal life

Lambert was born in Newark, New Jersey. He moved to nearby Irvington as a teen and attended Irvington High School and Bloomfield College where he graduated in 2008. In 2010 Lambert moved to Los Angeles where he maintains residency with his wife and children.

Career

Producing and songwriting

Lambert started his music career in 2010 when he worked on the songs "Sleeping Pills" and "All Said and Done" on the Jamie Foxx album Best Night of My Life with fellow New Jersey producer and songwriter Eric Hudson. The Following year he co-wrote "25/8" for Mary J Blige as well as the title track for the film Think Like a Man. The song was co written by Harmony Samuels, Eric Bellinger and Courtney Harrell and features the vocals of Jennifer Hudson, Ne Yo, and Rick Ross.

In 2013, Lambert wrote several songs for the Fantasia Barrino album Side Effects of You.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Al Sherrod Lambert” as american singer. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1985, 2008, 2010, 2013—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1985-06-25. The account is most persuasive where Sherrod, Lambert and American can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the people & ideas register because the source frames it as american singer. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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Biographical claims are most persuasive when dates, appointments and relationships can be traced to records created close to the events described. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 6, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q64009086. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1985, 2008, 2010 and 2013.

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This entry incorporates text from “Al Sherrod Lambert” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.