Kameelah Williams

702 (pronounced "Seven-oh-two") is an American girl group with the final and most known line-up consisting of Kameelah Williams and sisters Irish and LeMisha Grinstead.

The group was named after the area code of their hometown of Las Vegas, Nevada.

The group was originally a quartet featuring the Grinstead sisters born in Houston, Texas: LeMisha (born June 10, 1978), identical twins Orish (June 2, 1980 – April 20, 2008) and Irish (June 2, 1980 – September 16, 2023), with Amelia Childs.

The group debuted as the featured artist on Subway's hit single "This Lil' Game We Play".

Amelia and Orish were removed from the group due to manager Michael Bivins not favoring their voices and were briefly replaced by classmates Tiffany Villarreal and Kameelah Williams (born March 8, 1978, in Las Vegas, Nevada).

Six months before their debut single was released, Tiffany would depart the group.

Continuing as a trio, they released their debut single "Steelo" with great success.

Their first released album No Doubt in 1996, sold 500,000 copies in the United States.

In addition to the album, 702 opened for New Edition, Keith Sweat, and Blackstreet during the 1996–97 New Edition reunion tour.

The album earned them a Soul Train Lady of Soul Award in 1997.

It sold over 500,000 copies worldwide.

They also appeared on Elliott's debut album Supa Dupa Fly on her 1998 song "Beep Me 911", which reached No. 14 on the UK Singles Chart.

They also sang with Busta Rhymes' new artist Rampage.

"My Friend" was featured on the soundtrack to Men in Black.

In 1998, 702 made cameos in the sitcoms Sister, Sister and Moesha.

After going gold with their debut album, they released their self-titled second album, 702.

The first single from the album "Where My Girls At?"

was written and produced by Missy Elliott and made No. 4 on the Billboard Hot 100 and went gold.

In 1999 the trio released the most famous 702 song called "Where My Girls At?" on the album 702 which gained a high level of success for the group selling half a million copies in the United States.

For undisclosed conflicting personal reasons with the record label, Kameelah Williams distanced herself from the Grinstead sisters after the release of that album, and was replaced by Cree La'More, a solo singer who Irish and LeMisha personally picked to join the group.

The new line-up released a single called "Pootie Tangin'" for the Pootie Tang soundtrack, though shortly after this, Kameelah Williams returned to the group, and for undisclosed reasons, Cree La'More left the ensemble.

With the return of Kameelah Williams, they released the album Star which is mostly remembered for the single "I Still Love You".

The single spent months on the chart, became nominated for the song of the year, and gained them a 1999 Soul Train Lady of Soul Award nomination.

The group then disbanded in 2006.

Orish Grinstead died on April 20, 2008, at age 27.

They regrouped again in 2017, and appeared at the 2017 Soul Train Music Awards.

Irish Grinstead died on September 16, 2023, at the age of 43.

In Las Vegas, sisters LeMisha and Irish Grinstead were students at the Las Vegas Academy of Performing Arts.

Irish, her twin sister Orish, and LeMisha occasionally sang in the lobby of Caesars Palace where they were discovered by actor/comedian Sinbad.

He visited their home to convince their parents to send the trio to Atlanta for a convention and music competition.

Though the girls missed the deadline for entry, Sinbad used his name to get them in.

"Sweeta than Suga", as they were then called (Sinbad suggested the name), came in second in the competition.

As the convention was nearing a close, they met Michael Bivins (of New Edition and Bell Biv DeVoe) who agreed to work with the sisters.

They were briefly joined by singer Amelia Childs.

The reconfigured group was christened "702," which is Las Vegas' area code, a name that Bivins suggested.

Their debut album, No Doubt shot to No. 1 on Top Heatseekers.

Missy Elliott co-wrote & produced 4 songs on the album including the smash hit single "Steelo" and its remix.

The album spawned the 3 hit singles: "Steelo", "All I Want" and "Get It Together".

"Steelo" with altered lyrics was used as the theme song to the Nickelodeon television show Cousin Skeeter and "All I Want" was featured in the Nickelodeon movie Good Burger, based on the sketch from series All That, where they also performed.

"Get It Together" exploded by giving the group a No. 3 R&B single and a No. 10 Pop single on the Billboard charts.