Cassandra Elizabeth Ventura, professionally known as Cassie, recently showed off her exotic, toned body in a workout-themed GQ feature to promote her 2012 album. If you didn't know her already from her jaw-dropping topless photos or from her love affair with P. Diddy, you should get to know her for her talents as a recording artist, model, dancer and actress. Her new album features recently released hits “Balcony," “The Boys” and her club banger “King of Hearts.” It might just be what her blossoming career needs.

She got her first taste of the music industry at 16 when she had the opportunity to speak with the producer Rockwilder, a meeting that inspired her to take formal voice lessons. This decision paid off nicely later on, when, after she'd graduated from high school and was working on her modeling career in New York, she became acquainted with producer Ryan Leslie. He encouraged her to pursue music more seriously, and in January 2005, Cassie's mother's request for a song provided the impetus to go into the studio with Leslie and record one. Tommy Mottola heard Cassie's work and signed her to a management deal, and with Leslie as her producer, the young singer joined P. Diddy's Bad Boy Entertainment in 2006. That same year, her self-titled debut album was released; "Me&U," its lead single, reached the Top Ten.

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