It took more than 15 years for former girl band member, and Grammy-award winning song-writer, Amber Streeter, who goes by the artist name “Sevyn Streeter,” to release her debut album, “Girl Disrupted.”

  • Grammy award winning song writer Sevyn Streeter releases first album
  • Streeter, a Haines City native, debuted "Girl Disrupted" on July 7
  • Streeter has written songs for Chris Brown, Ariana Grande, Alicia Keys

She dropped the album on her 31st birthday, July 7.

“I’ve waited a really long time--which it feels like a lifetime sometimes--to have my own album out. And it feels so good,” said Streeter.

She said the title of the album is modeled after one of her favorite movies, “Girl Interrupted.”

The Haines City native has written songs for Chris Brown, Ariana Grande, and Alicia Keys. The R&B singer sang the certified platinum hit, “It Won’t Stop,” with Chris Brown back in 2013, and the song played on the radio long after.

“Girl Disrupted” is the tale of her journey to womanhood, with artists like Jeremih and Wiz Khalifa featured on several songs.

“I actually just did a couple of shows with Jeremih which was so much fun,” Streeter said.

She’s also been on the cover of national magazines and performed for television shows such as Wendy Williams.

The singer plans to go on tour this fall, but she’s doing shows here and there when they pop up.

On Sept. 1, she’s performing at 1:30 p.m. at the Gaylord Palms during the “Tom Joyner Family Reunion.”

Streeter said her quest to become a singer started when she was a kid, singing at home for family and in the church choir at Tabernacle of Praise in Winter Haven. At the age of 10, she performed on “Showtime at the Apollo,” something she and her mother still laugh about.

“That dress, that dress was like four sizes too big,” said Streeter to her mother Karen Streeter.

But the journey to stardom wasn’t a walk in the park. It was disrupted by a lot of things. A year and a half ago, she said depression took over her body to the extent that she contemplated suicide.

“It was very real for me and I felt like I couldn’t grow from it and no one else could, you know…how do I put it? I think it was one of those things where I chose to share it because not only did it help me to share my truth but it may help someone else too,” Streeter said.

Streeter calls the new album musical therapy, something she hopes will help her and her fans overcome whatever they’re going through.