Question: What nationality is the transgender singer who performed the pop and R&B album Infinity?

Context articles: Power of Love (Luther Vandross album)
Give Me the Reason (Luther Vandross album)
Rico Love
Jake Zyrus
Cookie: The Anthropological Mixtape
Pieces of Me (Ledisi album)
Lady Jaydee
Just Me (Keith Sweat album)
Marvin Gaye discography
Infinity (Charice album)

Power of Love is the seventh studio album (eighth overall) by American R&B and soul singer-songwriter Luther Vandross, released in April 1991 (see 1991 in music).
 The following year, the album earned Vandross two American Music Awards for "Favorite Soul/R&B Male Artist" and "Favorite Soul/R&B Album" and one Grammy Award for "Best R&B Vocal Performance, Male", and the track "Power of Love/Love Power" won in the "Best R&B Song" category.
 It reached "Billboard" 200 at #7, while topping the Top R&B Albums chart for five nonconsecutive weeks.
 On the latter chart, it was the last #1 R&B Album for twelve years until "Dance With My Father" was released.
 "Power of Love" was later certified double platinum Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA).
Give Me the Reason is the fifth studio album by American R&B singer-songwriter Luther Vandross, released on September 19, 1986.
 The album earned Vandross an American Music Award for Favorite Soul/R&B Male Artist and a nomination for "Favorite Soul/R&B Album" in 1988, while the title track "Give Me the Reason" was nominated for "Best R&B Vocal Performance, Male" and "Best R&B Song" at the 29th Grammy Awards in 1987.
 The album also included Vandross' first top-20 pop hit, "Stop to Love."
 It also marked a svelte, thinner Vandross due to a weight loss earlier in the year.
 The album went on to sell over 2 million copies in the United States and was certified double platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA).
Richard "Rico" Preston Butler, Jr. (born December 3, 1982), better known by his stage name Rico Love, is an American songwriter, record producer and singer.
 He was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, but split his childhood between Milwaukee, Wisconsin and New York City's Harlem neighborhood.
 He attended Florida A&M and, while visiting Atlanta, Georgia, worked his way into the music industry through connections with Usher, who would become Love's mentor.
 The first song Love ever wrote in his career was "Throwback" for which ended up on Usher's 2004 album ""Confessions"."
 Love success continued writing and producing hit records such as Usher's "There Goes My Baby" and "Hey Daddy (Daddy's Home)", Nelly's "Just a Dream" and "Gone", as well as Beyoncé Knowles' "Sweet Dreams".
 and has contributed to works which have gone on to win Grammys such as Beyoncé's 2009 Best Contemporary R&B album "I Am... Sasha Fierce", Usher's 2010 Best Contemporary R&B album "Raymond v. Raymond", and Usher's 2010 Best Male R&B Vocal Performance "There Goes My Baby".
 In addition Love has written and produced records for Kelly Rowland, Diddy – Dirty Money, Chris Brown, Alexandra Burke, Keri Hilson, Fergie, and Fantasia.
Jake Zyrus (born Charmaine Clarice Relucio Pempengco; May 10, 1992), who performed under the mononym Charice until his gender transition to male, is a Filipino singer who rose to popularity through YouTube.
Cookie: The Anthropological Mixtape is an album by Meshell Ndegeocello.
 It was released on June 4, 2002 on Maverick Records.
 The album peaked at #67 on the "Billboard" Top 200 list that year, and was nominated for Best Contemporary R&B Album at the 2003 Grammy Awards.
 The album also peaked at #21 on the "Billboard" R&B Album chart and #67 on "Billboard's" Top Internet Albums chart.
Pieces of Me is the fifth studio album by American R&B singer–songwriter Ledisi released by Verve Forecast Records on June 14, 2011.
 The album debuted at number eight on the US "Billboard" 200, becoming her first US top-ten album on the chart, and her highest-selling album to date.
 It also saw similar success on the R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart, where it debuted at number two, becoming her second top-ten album on that chart.
 The album was a critical and commercial success, earning Ledisi three Grammy–nominations at the 54th Grammy Awards, the title track (and US Top 20 R&B hit), "Pieces of Me" earned two nominations for Best R&B Song and Best R&B Performance, while the album itself received a nomination for Best R&B Album, losing to "F.A.M.E." by Chris Brown.
Judith Wambura Mbibo, known by her stage name Lady Jaydee (stylized as Lady JayDee in town and at times Lady Jay Dee) (born June 15, 1979), is a Tanzanian singer.
 She specializes in the R&B/Zouk/Afro Pop genres.
 Lady Jaydee was voted Best Tanzanian Female R&B Artist in 2002, performed at the Kora All Africa Designers Competition, and was awarded "Best R&B Album" at the Tanzania Music Awards on August 6, 2004.
 In July 2005, she won an award for "best female video for South Africa".
 She was among the first females to sing R&B in Swahili.
Just Me is the ninth studio album from R&B singer/songwriter Keith Sweat.
 Released on May 13, 2008 through Atco Records, it is the follow-up album to 2002's "Rebirth", and is Sweat's first album after having signed with Atco Records.
 It is his first R&B album in ten years to top the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart (the sixth #1 R&B album from Sweat overall).
American music artist Marvin Gaye released 25 studio albums, 4 live albums, 1 soundtrack album, 24 compilation albums and 83 singles.
 In 1961 Gaye signed a recording contract with Tamla Records, owned by Motown.
 The first release under the label was "The Soulful Moods of Marvin Gaye".
 Gaye's first album to chart was a duet album with Mary Wells titled "Together", peaking at number forty-two on the Billboard pop album chart.
 His 1965 album, "Moods of Marvin Gaye", became his first album to reach the top ten of the R&B album charts and spawned four hit singles.
 Gaye recorded more than thirty hit singles for Motown throughout the 1960s, becoming established as "the Prince of Motown".
 Gaye topped the charts in 1968 with his rendition of "I Heard It Through the Grapevine", while his 1969 album, "M.P.G.", became his first number one R&B album.
 Gaye's landmark album, 1971's "What's Going On" became the first album by a solo artist to launch three top ten singles, including the title track.
 His 1973 single, "Let's Get It On", topped the charts while its subsequent album reached number two on the charts becoming his most successful Motown album to date.
 In 1982, after 21 years with Motown, Gaye signed with Columbia Records and issued "Midnight Love", which included his most successful single to date, "Sexual Healing".
 Following his death in 1984, three albums were released posthumously while some of Gaye's landmark works were re-issued.
Infinity (stylized as ∞) is the second international studio album (fifth overall release) by Filipino pop and R&B singer Jake Zyrus.
 The album was released exclusively early in Japan on October 5, 2011 by Warner Bros.
 Records.
 The album was credited under the name Charice, Zyrus' name prior to his gender transition.