Taral Hicks

Taral Hicks, who grew up in the Bronx, is an actress and R&B singer. She made her film debut in the crime drama A Bronx Tale (1993), then took smaller parts in Just Cause (1995), Educating Matt Waters, and The Preacher's Wife. Her screen work also includes the HBO television series Subway Stories (1997), the 1998 film Belly, in which she played Keisha, and later independent features such as Forbidden Fruits (2006). On television she had guest spots on 100 Centre Street and Soul Food: The Series. In music, she signed with Motown Records in 1995 and released the album This Time, which produced the single Silly, a Deniece Williams cover whose Hype Williams video helped lead to her casting in Belly. She also co-starred in the Tyler Perry stage musical Aunt Bam's Place in Atlanta in 2011.