The Line From Fort Worth Gospel to Showtyme, the SHARLOTTA Single Built on Motown and Pop

A Classically Trained Fort Worth Singer Folds Church, Motown and Dance-Pop Into One Single

Showtyme runs two minutes and 32 seconds, and SHARLOTTA released the single on September 20, 2023. That is short for a song carrying this much history. Behind it sits a Fort Worth singer trained on church music, Motown and classical repertoire. Her R&B now leans into pop and dance.

SHARLOTTA is in the playlist below with Showtyme, the 2023 single at the centre of this piece, and her coverage is gathered on the SHARLOTTA profile. The song came to this desk through PopHits.Co Music Charts, which verifies independent artists and places their releases across its network of music news titles. Give it a spin, then keep reading for the Fort Worth line behind it.

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Fort Worth’s Line From Gospel Choirs to Soul Revival, and Where the SHARLOTTA Showtyme Single Picks It Up

Start with the city. Fort Worth has a long habit of sending church-raised voices into popular music. Kirk Franklin, a Fort Worth native, built his gospel career on choirs such as the Family and God’s Property. He has collected 20 Grammy Awards along the way.

A generation later, Leon Bridges carried the same roots somewhere else. Bridges was born in Atlanta but raised in Fort Worth, in a religious household where his grandmother sang in church. His 2015 debut Coming Home revived 1960s soul, and he performs in vintage clothing, so the look and the sound arrive together.

SHARLOTTA is descended from that line in more ways than one. By her own account, she honed her voice on church music and Motown. Rigorous classical training followed, under Robyn Holliman, Andrew Williams and Raymond Shultz. She then studied at Texas Wesleyan University, the Methodist university in Fort Worth, on the President’s Honors Scholarship.

Like Bridges, she treats clothing as part of the work. She is an avid seamstress who upcycles her own clothes and ties that fashion directly to her music. In a city where so many singers learned in church first, that care over presentation belongs to the lineage too.

Where SHARLOTTA Fits, From Showtyme to Biyb

Showtyme did not arrive alone. SHARLOTTA released it on the same day as W H Y and Evol, and a solo version of You Thought followed two days later. Those songs built on a start made in 2022. Her earliest single on streaming services, You Thought, came out that January, and Intuition followed in August. So she has always worked as a singles artist, testing ideas one track at a time.

The remixes came next. In January 2024 she released Evol (Remix) and You Thought (Slowed and Chopped), and that second title nods to a Texas tradition. The slowed-and-chopped style came out of Houston, so a Fort Worth singer reworking her own song that way keeps the connection close to home.

With You followed in July 2024. Then, in February 2025, Showtyme returned as a fresh single release, which gave the song a second life on streaming services.

This year has been her busiest yet. Show You landed in May 2026 and Biyb followed in June, with a radio edit in August. In between, she revisited Showtyme once more, releasing a remix with Fat Pimp in June.

Showtyme and Its Neighbours, From Victoria Monét to Tinashe and Fat Pimp

So who sits near this record? Start with Victoria Monét. She spent years writing songs for other artists. Then her debut album, Jaguar II, won Best R&B Album at the 2024 Grammys, alongside Best New Artist. Her records draw on classic soul while sounding current. Listeners who like that balance will hear a similar instinct in SHARLOTTA’s mix of Motown roots and pop.

Tinashe is the other clear neighbour. Her music moves between R&B and dance-pop, and after leaving RCA she self-released four albums. That independent route matters here, because SHARLOTTA is building her catalogue the same way, one self-released single at a time.

Then there is the Texas thread. Fat Pimp is a Dallas rapper who started out as a producer and signed with Warner Bros. in 2008, according to the Dallas Observer. His turn on the 2026 Showtyme (Remix) stretches the track to two minutes and 44 seconds and ties the song to the Dallas rap scene.

The genre tags on Showtyme tell the same story: alternative indie R&B, commercial pop and commercial vocal dance. That is a wide spread, but it has a centre. The song is built on a church-trained voice, and everything else is arranged around it.

So who should press play? Three groups stand out. First, fans of R&B that is not afraid of a dance floor. Next, listeners who follow Texas music beyond the headline names. Finally, anyone curious about where Fort Worth’s church-and-soul line goes next.

The BlackSounds.News curator team: “What stands out about Showtyme is how much lineage it carries in two and a half minutes. Church, Motown and classical study all sit behind it. SHARLOTTA pairs that training with a sense of presentation that goes right down to the clothes she makes herself.”

Stream the SHARLOTTA Showtyme Single and Follow Her Everywhere

Start with the Spotify player at the top of the page. After that, the 2025 single release of Showtyme is also on Spotify.

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