Sugar is a Canadian romantic drama film, released in 2004. The film was directed by John Palmer, and written by Palmer, Todd Klinck and Jaie Laplante based on short stories by Bruce LaBruce.

The film stars Andre Noble as Cliff, a sheltered and insecure suburban teenager being introduced to gay street life by Butch (Brendan Fehr), a hustler. The film's cast also includes Marnie McPhail, Sarah Polley, Maury Chaykin and Michael Riley.

Noble, who received strong reviews for his performance in Sugar, died just a few weeks after the film's debut.^[1]

The film received two nominations at the 2005 Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television's 25th Genie Awards. Klinck, Laplante and Palmer were nominated in the Best Adapted Screenplay category, while Fehr was nominated for Best Supporting Actor.

Sugar is available on DVD in the United States through TLA Video.

See also[link]

• Twist (film), a movie of similar plot.

References[link]

External links[link]

• Sugar at the Internet Movie Database

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Dave Lee (born 18 June 1964) is a British DJ and house music producer, also known by the stage name Joey Negro.^[1] Lee was born on the Isle of Wight.^[2] He has released music under a variety of pseudonyms, including the name Jakatta. Lee as Joey Negro compiled the Disco Not Disco series.^[3]

Career[link]

Lee began producing in 1988, after founding his first label, the now defunct Republic Records.^[4] After creating a string of acid house tracks as part of the M-D-Emm production team, he became one of the first to incorporate disco samples starting with "Together Forever", a cover of a track by disco band Exodus produced under the name Raven Maize, with assistance from Blaze. In 1990, he released the first track under the name Joey Negro, which catapulted Lee to underground stardom. Not being able to play an instrument, Lee also started working with keyboard players Andrew 'Doc' Livingstone and Viv Hope-Scott. He also closed Republic Records and started a new label, Z Records, to promote his new artistic leanings.

Since then, Joey Negro has become one of the most sought-after producers and remixers, and has worked under a variety of aliases, including Doug Willis, Z Factor, Sessomato and Mistura. In 1998, he created his first session band Sunburst Band with Michele Chiavarini, Julian Crampton, Thomas Dyani-Akuru and Tony Remy, as well as his regular vocalist Taka Boom, sister of Chaka Khan, recording his first real album, Here Comes The Sunburst Band (Lee previously released two singles collections, Universe Of Love and Get Down Tonight).

He later achieved more mainstream success under the name Jakatta, in 2000, when he released the single American Dream, sampling two Thomas Newman pieces ("Dead Already" and "American Beauty/Paper Bag") from the soundtrack for the film American Beauty and reached #3 in the UK. He also had hits with "So Lonely" (UK #8) and "My Vision" (UK #6), also sampling Thomas Newman for the latter (by using this time "Brooks was Here," from The Shawshank Redemption soundtrack). Unlike his previous disco-laced productions, Jakatta's works were closer to the Ibiza-influenced chill-out sounds and Germany-based progressive house, so Lee moved this alias from Z Records to Rulin Records, a sublabel of the Ministry of Sound. He also resurrected the Raven Maize alias, incorporating samples from rock 'n' roll and synth pop.

Negro continues to release house music under a variety of names, as well as running Z Records. For the first time, he also released a record under his real name Dave Lee called "You're Not Alone".^[5]

Discography[link]

Albums[link]

• 1993 Universe Of Love
• 1997 Get Down Tonight (with Andrew Livingstone)
• 1998 Here Comes the Sunburst Band (as The Sunburst Band)
• 2002 Visions
• 2004 Until the End of Time (as The Sunburst Band)
• 2008 Moving with the Shakers (as The Sunburst Band)

Singles[link]

Joey Negro

• 1990 "Do It, Believe It"
• 1991 "Above & Beyond EP" (with Andrew Livingstone and Viv Hope-Scott)
• 1991 "Do What You Feel" (with Andrew Livingstone, Viv Hope-Scott and Debbie French) - #36 UK
• 1991 "Reachin'" - #70 UK
• 1992 "Enter Your Fantasy EP" - #35 UK
• 1993 "What Happened To The Music" (with The Trammps and Andrew Livingstone) - #52 UK
• 1993 "What A Life/Universe Of Love" (with The Trammps)
• 1997 "Can't Get High Without U" (with Pete Z. and Taka Boom) - #1 US Dance
• 1999 "Must Be The Music" (with Taka Boom) - #8 UK
• 2000 "Saturday" (with Taka Boom) - #41 UK
• 2005 "Make A Move On Me" (with Taka Boom) - #11 UK, #59 Australia, #40 Ireland, #1 US Dance
• 2005 "Scattering Stars"
• 2011 "No Sugar (with Gramophonedzie & Shea Soul)

Jakatta

• 2000 "American Dream" - #3 UK, #63 Australia
• 2001 "American Dream (Remix)" - #63 UK
• 2001 "So Lonely" (with Monsoon) - #8 UK, #51 Australia
• 2002 "My Vision" (with Seal) - #6 UK
• 2002 "One Fine Day" (with Beth Hirsch) - #39 UK
• 2004 "Visions EP"
• 2005 "Shimmering Stars" (with Michele Chiavarini)

Raven Maize

• 1989 "Together Forever" (with Romana Brooks and Blaze) - #67 UK
• 1996 "Together Forever '96"
• 2001 "The Real Life" - #12 UK
• 2002 "Fascinated" (with Michele Chiavarini and Katherine Ellis) - #37 UK

The Sunburst Band

The band includes Michele Chiavarini, Julian Crampton, Thomas Dyani-Akuru, Tony Remy, Michael J. Parlett & Colin Graham

• 1998 "Sunburn EP" (with Jessica Lauren)
• 1998 "Ease Your Mind"
• 1999 "Garden Of Love"
• 1999 "Radiant EP" (with Michele Chiavarini)
• 2004 "Far Beyond" (with Michele Chiavarini)
• 2004 "Fly Away" (with Pete Simpson)
• 2004 "Just Do It/Every Day" (with Luci Martin, Norma Jean Wright and Taka Boom)
• 2004 "Thin Air EP" (with Taka Boom)
• 2005 "He Is/Fly Away (Remixes)"
• 2005 "U Make Me Hot"
• 2006 "For All Eternity/Twinkle"
• 2008 "Rough Times" (with Yolanda Wyns)
• 2008 "Fashion/Journey to the Sun" (with Pete Simpson and Katherine Ellis)

Doug Willis

• 1993 "Syndrum Syndrome EP"
• 1995 "Bodyshine"
• 1996 "Down To The Disco EP"
• 1997 "Doug-Ism EP"
• 1998 "Armed And Extremely Douglas" (with Michele Chiavarini and Taka Boom)
• 1998 "Doug Shit EP" (with Michele Chiavarini and Carolyn Harding)
• 2000 "Skate Dancer" (with Taka Boom)
• 2003 "Get Your Own"
• 2007 "Doug Dastardly" (with Michele Chiavarini and Pete Simpson)
• 2007 "Dougswana" (with Zeke Manikiya and Michele Chiavarini)
• 2008 "Doug's Disco Brain" double CD

Prospect Park

• 1997 "Movin' On" (with Carolyn Harding) - #55 UK
• 1999 "ESP" (with Bernard Thomas and Carolyn Harding)
• 2001 "Surrender" (with Mr. Pink)
• 2002 "I Got This Feelin'" (with Michele Chiavarini and Taka Boom)
• 2003 "Spinnin'" (with Michele Chiavarini and Linda Clifford)
• 2005 "Get Down Tonight"

Mistura

• 1993 "Coast To Coast"
• 1998 "Tonight" (with Maxine McClain)
• 1999 "Think Positive" (with Michele Chiavarini, Viv Hope-Scott and Carolyn Harding)
• 1999 "Runnin'" (with Luke Smith, Viv Hope-Scott and Carolyn Harding)
• 2002 "Sweet Magic" (with Michele Chiavarini and Taana Gardner)

Sessomatto

• 1996 "I'm Back"
• 1996 "Can't Fight The Feeling" (with Taka Boom)
• 2000 "Moody" (with Michele Chiavarini and Taka Boom)
• 2003 "I Need Somebody" (with Thelma Houston)
• 2006 "Movin' On" (with Michele Chiavarini and Carolyn Harding)
• 2007 "You're Gonna Love Me" (with Carolyn Harding)

Z Factor

• 1996 "Gotta Keep Pushin'"
• 1999 "Give It On Up"
• 1999 "Make A Move On Me"
• 2001 "Ride The Rhythm"
• 2002 "Rock Ur Body"
• 2007 "Bang"
• 2008 "We'll Keep Climbing/Somebody" (with Dawn Tallman and Manfred Orange)

Foreal People

• 1998 "Does It Feel Good 2U?" (with Michele Chiavarini and Taka Boom)
• 1999 "Discotizer" (with Michele Chiavarini, Taka Boom and Dave Clarke)
• 1999 "Shake" (with David Grant)
• 2001 "Gotta Thing" (with Michele Chiavarini and Taana Gardner)

Akabu

• 2000 "Your Wildest Dreams" (with Michele Chiavarini and Viv Hope-Scott)
• 2001 "Ride The Storm" (Michele Chiavarini and Linda Clifford) - #69 UK
• 2003 "The Way"
• 2004 "Don't Hold Back" (with Michele Chiavarini and Steve Burton)
• 2005 "Phuture Bound" (with Michele Chiavarini)
• 2006 "I'm Not Afraid Of The Future" (with Michele Chiavarini, Pete Simpson and Yoland Wyns)

M-D-Emm productions

• 1988 "Get Acidic EP", as M-D-Emm (with Mike Cheal and Mark Ryder)
• 1988 "Burn It Down", as M-D-Emm (with Mike Cheal and Mark Ryder)
• 1988 "Don't Stop (We're So Hot)", as M-D-Emm (with Mike Cheal and Mark Ryder)
• 1988 "Fanning The Flames", as M-D-Emm (with Mike Cheal and Mark Ryder)
• 1988 "Get Busy (It's Party Time)", as M-D-Emm (with Mike Cheal and Mark Ryder) - #100 UK
• 1988 "Playin' With Fire EP", as M-D-Emm (with Mike Cheal and Mark Ryder) - #98 UK
• 1989 "Get Hip To This", as M-D-Emm (with Mike Cheal, Mark Ryder and Nasih)
• 1989 "Do You Want Me", as Skeletor (with Mark Ryder)
• 1989 "Check It Out", as Masters Of The Universe (with Mark Ryder)
• 1989 "I Wanna Do It", as 2 The Max (with Mike Cheal)
• 1990 "Space Talk", as Masters Of The Universe (with Mark Ryder)

NOTE: Dave Lee left M-D-Emm after 1990, the name was continued by Mark Ryder

Other aliases

• 1990 "Report To The Dancefloor", as Energise
• 1990 "Can't Give You Up", as Life On Earth (with Andrew Livingstone, Pat Leacock and Winston Marvaya)
• 1991 "Nighttime", as Hookline & Singer (with Andrew Livingstone, Pat Leacock and Judge Jules)
• 1991 "One Kiss", as Pacha (with Blaze and Debbie French)
• 1994 "Latin Connection EP", as Agora
• 1994 "Our Love", as The Away Team (with Andrew Livingstone and Gerideau)
• 1994 "Girls & Boys", as Hedboys (with Andrew Livingstone)
• 1995 "Mutual DIY EP", as Hedboys (with Andrew Livingstone)
• 1995 "Stargazer EP", as Jupiter Beyond
• 1995 "On My Mind", as The Away Team (with Andrew Livingstone)
• 1995 "Life On Mars EP", as Men From Mars (with Andrew Livingstone)
• 1995 "Sun Power EP", as Men From Mars (with Andrew Livingstone)
• 1999 "The Loving Game/Sweet Embrace", as Raw Essence (with Michele Chiavarini and Maxine McClain)
• 2000 "Do U Love What U Feel", as Raw Essence (with Maxine McClain)
• 2001 "Love & Affection", as Mr. Pink presents The Program (with Mr. Pink) - #22 UK
• 2002 "That’s How Good Your Love Is", as Il Padrinos (with Danny Rampling and Jocelyn Brown)
• 2004 "Keep On", as Avalanche
• 2005 "You're Not Alone", as Dave Lee (with Michele Chiavarini and Ann Saunderson)
• 2007 "What's Happening", as AC Soul Symphony (with Michele Chiavarini and Pete Simpson)
• 2007 "Latronica", as Dave Lee

^[6]

See also[link]

• List of number-one dance hits (United States) - 1998, 2006
• List of artists who reached number one on the U.S. dance chart

References[link]

External links[link]

• Z Records: Joey Negro
• Joey Negro / Dave Lee discographies at Discogs
• Joey Negro profile at The End

Langdon Auger, is a Canadian rapper and producer from Victoria, British Columbia.^[1] He has recorded six albums and a mixtape so far.

Early life and education[link]

Auger grew up in Victoria, and graduated from Claremont Secondary School. His grandmother encouraged him to pursue his ambitions of becoming a musician.^[2] He moved to Vancouver in 2001.^[3] He studied at BCIT, earning a degree in sales and marketing.^[1]

Career[link]

In April 2003, a virtually unknown rapper at the time, Auger won the Scorch the Mic battle, a freestyle emcee competition in Vancouver BC.^[4] In June of that same year, Auger gained attention for his song "Island Nights", from the Crisp Living album, recorded in his basement.^[2] It was the first time an independent song reached number one on The Beat 94.5's Top 7 at 7 request program.^[1] "Island Nights" was later named the fourth-best-written song about Victoria by the city's top music reviewer.^[5] He was an opening act on one of Maestro's tours.^[2][6] In 2004 Auger released the Wizard of Augz album which spawned another hit single, "Got You Caught", which went to number one on the Beat 94.5's Top 7 at 7 as well.^[1] Later the song won third place in the R&B/hip hop category for the 2005 International Songwriting Competition.^[7][8] From the same album, "Pat's Song" is a tribute to the brother of his old manager, broadcast personality Dylan "Big D" Willows. Pat died in a motor vehicle accident.^[4]

In 2008, he released the album Inaugeration, again independently to a sellout crowd in Victoria, BC^[9] In 2009, Auger released "The AUG Ep", again independently. 2011 saw Auger release his 4th full length album "The Illuminaugi" on 11/11/11. Auger's raps feature countless local references - Clover Point, the drivethru at Wendy's, the tennis bubble at Cedar Hill Recreation Centre - but they are also full of tributes to his fallen friends and family. Life has thrown Auger some curveballs, a journey he details in depth on The Illuminaugi.^[10]

Read more: http://www.timescolonist.com/news/Happy+homeboy/6083725/story.html#ixzz1leoxJzwCLangdon was recently nominated as one of the best artists in Victoria in the "Times Colonist Music Awards" for 2011.^[11]

Discography[link]

• Songs from the Hills – 2001
• Island Nights - The Mixtape – 2002
• Crisp Living – 2003
• The Wizard of Augz – 2004
• Inaugeration – 2008
• The Aug EP – 2009
• The Illuminaugi - 2011

References[link]

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Sheena Easton
Sheena Easton on 7 November 2009
Background information
Birth name	Sheena Shirley Orr
Born	(1959-04-27) 27 April 1959 (age 53)
Origin	Bellshill, Scotland
Genres	Adult Contemporary, Pop/Rock, Dance, R&B, Country
Occupations	Singer, songwriter, producer, actress, voiceover, designer
Instruments	Vocals
Years active	1980–present
Labels	EMI UK, EMI US, MCA, Universal
Website	www.sheenaeaston.com

Sheena Easton (born Sheena Shirley Orr; 27 April 1959) is a Scottish recording artist. Easton became famous for being the focus of an episode in the British television programme The Big Time, which recorded her attempts to gain a record contract and her eventual signing with EMI Records. Easton is a two-time Grammy winner and has 15 US Top 40 singles on the Billboard US Pop Singles chart to date. She is the only artist in the history of the Billboard chart to have a Top Five single on all the key charts: Pop/Rock, R&B, Country, Dance, and Adult Contemporary.

Easton rose to fame in the early 1980s with the pop hits "9 to 5" (known as "Morning Train" in the United States), "For Your Eyes Only," "Strut," "Sugar Walls," "U Got the Look" with Prince, and "The Lover in Me." She went on to become successful in the United States and Japan, working with prominent vocalists and producers, such as Prince, Christopher Neil, Kenny Rogers, Luis Miguel, L.A. Reid and Babyface, and Nile Rodgers.

Early life[link]

Easton was born Sheena Shirley Orr in the Scottish town of Bellshill, the youngest of six children to steel mill labourer Alex Orr and his wife Annie. She had two brothers (Robert and Alex) and three sisters (Marilyn, Annessa and Morag). Her earliest known public performance as a singer was at the age of five (in 1964), when she sang "Early One Morning" for her uncle and aunt and various relatives at the couple's 25th wedding anniversary celebration.^{[citation needed]}

Easton's father died in 1969 and her mother had to support the family. Easton's website states that despite her mother's heavy workload she was always available for her children: "Sheena always speaks very highly of her mum and the wonderful job she did in bringing up her and her siblings, including teaching each of them all to read at home before they were even enrolled in school."^[1]

Easton did not consider a singing career until viewing the movie The Way We Were, with Barbra Streisand. Streisand's singing over the opening credits "overtook" the young Scottish girl and convinced her that what she wanted most was to be a singer and to have the same effect on others.^{[citation needed]} Her top grades in school earned her a scholarship to attend the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama in Glasgow, where she trained from 1975 to 1979 as a speech and drama teacher by day, while singing with a band called "Something Else" by night at local clubs.^{[citation needed]} She chose to study teaching rather than performing, because it was a course of study that would let her perfect her craft as a singer.^{[citation needed]}

In 1979, she married Sandi Easton, the first of her four husbands. They divorced after eight months, and Sheena decided to keep the surname Easton. That year, one of her Academy tutors coaxed her into auditioning for Esther Rantzen, producer of the BBC programme The Big Time. Rantzen was planning a documentary film to chronicle a relative unknown's rise to pop-music stardom. Easton was selected as the subject for the programme, where she met Lulu (another Scottish singer), who told her that she was unlikely to make the "big time."^{[citation needed]} Within a year of the programme airing, Sheena Easton proved Lulu wrong as EMI executives awarded her a contract, and Christopher Neil was assigned as her recording producer. Deke Arlon became her first manager, and Easton spent much of 1980 being followed by camera crews, who filmed her throughout the process of making her first EMI single, "Modern Girl".

Career[link]

[edit] 1981–83: "9 to 5", James Bond, Take My Time

Her first single, the disco-tinged soft-synth-pop tune, "Modern Girl", was released in the UK before the show aired and reached #56. At the end of the show, Easton was still unsure of her future as a singer. The question was soon resolved when, after the show aired, her second single, "9 to 5", reached #3 on the UK Singles Chart in 1980. "Modern Girl" re-entered the chart subsequently and climbed into the top 10, and Easton found herself with two songs in the top 10 simultaneously. During the year 1980, Sheena was voted "Best British Female Singer" by the Daily Mirror Pop & Rock Awards, "Best Newcomer" by Capital Radio, and "Best Female Singer" by the TV Times Readers Awards.^{[citation needed]}

"9 to 5" was Easton's first single release in the United States, although it was renamed "Morning Train (Nine To Five)" for its release in the US and Canada to avoid confusion with Dolly Parton's hit movie title song "9 to 5." "Morning Train" became Easton's first and only #1 hit in the US and topped both the Billboard Hot 100 and Adult Contemporary charts in Billboard magazine. "Modern Girl" was released as the follow-up and peaked at #18, and before 1981 was over Sheena had a Top 10 hit in both the US and UK with the Academy Award-nominated James Bond movie theme For Your Eyes Only. The song was nominated for an Academy Award in 1981 in the category "Best Music (Original Song)."^[2] Easton's US success culminated in her winning the Grammy Award for "Best New Artist" of 1981.

Easton's first three US albums, Sheena Easton (a.k.a. Take My Time), You Could Have Been With Me, and Madness, Money and Music, were all in the same Soft Rock/Adult Contemporary pop vein (although she made a grab for the New Wave audience with "Machinery," from the latter album).^{[citation needed]} The title track from You Could Have Been With Me made it in to the Top 15 (US), however, by the end of 1982, she saw her sales slumping.^{[citation needed]} Some of her songs on these albums were covered by other artists too: "For Your Eyes Only" was covered by Marilyn McCoo and "Prisoner" was covered by the bands Sue Saad and the Next and Uriah Heep.

[edit] 1983–87: Best Kept Secret, A Private Heaven and No Sound but a Heart

In 1983, she released the album Best Kept Secret and its first single, the synthesized dance-pop tune "Telefone (Long Distance Love Affair)" became her fourth Top 10 hit. The single "Telefone" was Grammy-nominated for "Best Female Pop/Rock Vocal Performance" 1983.^{[citation needed]} That same year, she had a Top 10 hit in the US with "We've Got Tonight," a cover of the Bob Seger song and duet with Kenny Rogers, which also earned her a #1 single on the Country chart (it reached the Top 30 on the British charts). The follow-up to "Telefone," "Almost Over You," was a #4 AC chart hit, Top 30 pop hit, and later became a hit on the Country charts for Lila McCann in 1998.^{[citation needed]} "Almost Over You" was very popular in Asia (especially the Philippines) and was covered by the Filipino artists Sarah Geronimo, Regine Velasquez, Aiza Seguerra, Karylle, and Janno Gibbs and the Chinese singer Sandy Lam.

In 1983, Easton recorded a Spanish-language single, "Me Gustas Tal Como Eres" ("I Like You Just the Way You Are"), a duet with Mexican star Luis Miguel. The single earned her a second Grammy, this time for Best Mexican-American Performance. The track was taken from the album Todo Me Recuerda a Ti, which featured Spanish-language covers of seven previous Easton recordings and three new tracks. The disc went gold in many Spanish-speaking countries.^{[citation needed]}

In 1984, she made a transformation into a sexy dance-pop siren. She was rewarded with the biggest-selling US album of her career, RIAA certified platinum A Private Heaven, and her fifth Top 10 single, "Strut." Easton was, again, Grammy nominated for "Best Female Pop/Rock Vocal Performance" in 1984.^{[citation needed]} She was also one of the first artists to have a music video banned because of its lyrics rather than its imagery; some broadcasters refused to air the sexually risqué "Sugar Walls,"^{[citation needed]} which had been written for her by Prince (using the pseudonym Alexander Nevermind). "Sugar Walls" was named by Tipper Gore of the Parents' Music Resource Council as one of the "Filthy Fifteen", a list of songs deemed indecent because of their lyrics, alongside Prince's own "Darling Nikki."^{[citation needed]} The song eventually hit #3 on the R&B singles chart and #9 on the Billboard Hot 100.

Easton's follow-up to A Private Heaven, entitled Do You, was produced by Nile Rodgers and achieved gold status. In late 1985, Easton contributed "It's Christmas (All Over the World)" to the holiday release Santa Claus The Movie. In 1987, the release of a follow-up album, No Sound But a Heart,^[3] was hampered in the United States after an initial single release, Eternity, (another Prince composition) failed to reach the pop, R&B or adult contemporary charts.^[4] The album's release moved from February to June;^[3] then in August the release was further held up as Easton's attorneys asked that the album be delayed after EMI Records was absorbed into EMI/Manhattan.^[5] Songs from the album were covered by other artists: Crystal Gayle and Gary Morris featured "Wanna Give My Love" and "What If We Fall In Love" on a 1987 duet album named for the latter song; Celine Dion recorded "The Last to Know" on 1990s Unison while Mexican singer Yuri featured the tune on her album Espejos De Alma (1995); Patti LaBelle covered "Still In Love" on 1989's Be Yourself; Pia Zadora recorded "Floating Hearts" on 1989's Pia Z; and "Telefono" was covered by the Mexican band Timbiriche. No Sound But a Heart eventually did get released in the United States in 1999, with four bonus tracks, including Easton's contributions to the soundtrack of the 1986 film About Last Night..., "Natural Love" and the Top 50 single "So Far, So Good".

[edit] 1987–90: "U Got the Look" and The Lover in Me

In 1987, she sang on Prince's #2 hit, "U Got the Look", and also appeared in the video. Prince and Sheena were Grammy nominated for "Best R&B Vocal, Duo or Group" in 1987.^{[citation needed]} The two would later team again for "The Arms of Orion" written by Easton and featured on Prince's soundtrack to the movie Batman in 1989, reaching #36 in the US and #27 in the UK. They also co-wrote a song for Patti LaBelle's album that year titled "Love '89". In addition they co-wrote "La, La, La, He, He, Hee", which Prince recorded. Tabloid press linked the two romantically, which she has always denied.^[6]

In November 1987, Easton made her first dramatic acting appearance on the television program Miami Vice. She played a singer named Caitlin Davies whom Sonny Crockett was assigned to protect until her court appearance to render crucial testimony against certain corrupt music industry mavens. Sonny and Caitlin ended up married by the end of the episode, the first of five for Easton until her character was killed off. Easton garnered good reviews and the episodes she was featured on earned the show higher ratings.^{[citation needed]} By the spring of 1988, the latest installment of the Miami Vice soundtrack was released and featured "Follow My Rainbow", which Easton had finished singing on her last appearance just moments before her character was eliminated.

The song also appeared on her next album The Lover in Me, a gold-selling disc debut released the following autumn on her new label MCA Records that put Easton back on the charts. This album features Urban R&B and Dance-pop, and a sexier image.^{[citation needed]} The title song from "The Lover in Me" reached #2 on the Billboard Hot 100 (UK#15) and became her biggest pop hit since "Morning Train". It also became a (#5) hit on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles and Tracks chart. It was followed on the R&B chart by "Days Like This" (#35) (UK #43), which missed the Billboard Hot 100. A third single was released "101" (UK #54) and missed the Billboard top 100 but did make it to #2 on the Billboard Dance chart.^[7] The album received positive reviews and featured collaborations with LA and Babyface, Prince, Angela Winbush, and Jellybean Benitez.

In 1990, Easton revisited her home country of Scotland to perform at a festival (The Big Day) in Glasgow. After announcing that it was "good to be back home" in an American accent, she had bottles (some containing urine) thrown at her and, visibly shaken, she was forced to cut her set short. She vowed never to perform in Scotland again.^[8]

[edit] 1991–96: What Comes Naturally, No Strings, and My Cherie

In 1991, What Comes Naturally became the last of Easton's albums to chart in the United States, peaking at No. 90. The title song was also her last Top 40 single to date, reaching No. 19. It also became her first hit in Australia since the mid 1980s, peaking at No. 4.^{[citation needed]} Another two singles "You Can Swing It" and "To Anyone" followed but failed to chart. "What Comes Naturally" (US No. 19, UK No. 83, Australia No. 4.) remained on the pop chart for 10 weeks. Easton has songwriting credits on three tracks.

Easton followed this with the critically acclaimed,^{[citation needed]} but non-charting No Strings, an album of Jazz standards and My Cherie her last album to date stateside.

[edit] 1996–98: Role in All Dogs Go to Heaven 2, Freedom, and Home

Easton was set to star as the voice of a female canine (Sasha La Fleur) in All Dogs Go to Heaven 2 in 1996.^{[citation needed]} She also contributed vocals to the soundtrack on "Count Me Out" and "I Will Always Be With You." Easton also contributed the theme song "Are There Angels" to the soundtrack for Shiloh in 1997; and provided the song "A Dream Worth Keeping" for the 1993 animated film Ferngully The last Rainforest. In 1997, she played 'Melissa,' a recording star who is visited by time travelers from the future in an Outer Limits (Season 2/Episode 19) entitled 'Falling Star'.

In the late 1990s, Easton retained an album contract with MCA Japan and released 2 discs of new material. Freedom in 1997, a return to her trademark pop including a remake of her debut single "Modern Girl" and in 1999 Universal/Victor released the self-produced acoustic set, Home. Also around this time, a greatest hits collection featuring 12 MCA singles recorded from 1988-1995 charted in Japan at #98.

Easton adopted a boy (Jake) and girl (Skylar) between 1995 and 1996. Motherhood led her to curtail her appearances and focus on casino gigs, corporate shows and theatrical work.^[9] "Because I adopted my children, I could plan my timing," she told The Arizona Republic. "I knew exactly when they were coming along, so I knew when I had to change my life so it would be a stable life."^[9]

Easton continued acting in America, starring in Broadway revivals of Man Of La Mancha opposite Raul Julia in his last stage role, (1992) and Grease (1996). Between 1994 and 1996, she played several characters in Gargoyles the animated series, including Lady Finella, the Banshee, Molly and Robyn Canmore. In 1999, she voice-acted a part-demon character, Annah-of-the-Shadows, in the computer game Planescape: Torment. She lives in Las Vegas with her two children and often performs in various casinos' entertainment venues. She voiced the character of Fiona Canmore for a scripted but unfinished episode of the cancelled animated feature, Team Atlantis.

1998–99: Colors of Christmas Tour[link]

In December 1998, Easton toured with "The Colors of Christmas" with artists Roberta Flack, Melissa Manchester, Peabo Bryson, and Jeffrey Osborne. Windham Hill Records produced "The Colors of Christmas" disc by Robbie Buchanan of holiday music. Easton contributed two tracks, "The Place Where We Belong" (a duet with Jeffrey Osborne), and "The Lord's Prayer".

[edit] 1999–02: Todo Me Recuerda a Ti and Fabulous

1999-2000 saw New York based One Way Records gain the rights to release all of Easton's EMI-America catalog. For the first time in the US, No Sound But a Heart was released. All Easton's EMI back catalogue was re-released with bonus tracks, incorporating b-sides and remixes. However, there was one notable exception to the re-release schedule, Easton's Spanish language album Todo Me Recuerda a Ti. In 2000, Easton co-starred with David Cassidy in At The Copa, a show in Las Vegas at The Rio Hotel for one year.^{[citation needed]}

She also signed an album contract with Universal International UK and attempted a comeback of sorts with Fabulous, an album of classic disco covers produced by Ian Masterson of Trouser Enthusiasts fame and Terry Ronald.^{[citation needed]} The first single, "Giving Up, Giving In", reached UK #54, and the album failed to chart in the UK and was not released in the US. A second single, a cover of Donna Summer's hit "Love is in Control", was withdrawn. In Japan, the first single was "Can't Take My Eyes Off You" and the album included a cover of Teena Marie's "I Need Your Lovin" as a bonus track. Remixes of the singles were produced by Joey Negro, Sleaze Sisters, Sharp Boys, Rob Searle, DJ Soma Grow and Almighty. This was to be Easton's last album release to date. Released in 2000, it was Easton's 16th studio album. The album was only released throughout Europe, Japan, Australia, and Argentina.

The album contains mostly cover versions of hit songs from the 1970s and 1980s, and most of them disco classics. There are also two original compositions. The first single released from the album was a remake of "Giving Up Giving In", which had originally been a hit for The Three Degrees in 1978. Easton's version was less successful, peaking at #54 on the UK singles chart. A second single was released in 2001, a cover of Donna Summer's 1982 hit "Love Is In Control" with an accompanying video that was taken from footage of Easton's album launch concert at G-A-Y nightclub in London. However, this too was unsuccessful and shelved indefinitely.

In Japan, "Fabulous" was released in February 2001 and the first single was "Can't Take My Eyes Off You" which had originally been recorded by Frankie Valli in the 1960s, though a disco version had been a hit for The Boys Town Gang in the early 1980s. The album was packaged differently from the UK version and included two bonus tracks; "I Need Your Lovin'" (a cover of the 1980 Teena Marie song) and a remix of "Can't Take My Eyes Off You". In Australia, "Fabulous" was released 24 February 2001 and Easton was asked to perform songs from the album to close out 2001 Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras ceremonies. The album was a commercial failure in the UK, though the album did enjoy mild success in dance clubs in London, Japan, and Australia. However, the album was not released in the United States.

Easton also went back to Australia in 2001 for the Sydney Gay & Lesbian Mardi Gras and closed the celebration with songs from Fabulous. She also performed in (The Concert: Celebrating Women in Music,) Centennial Park, Australia, on 24 February 2001.^{[citation needed]} In 2001, Easton began a successful run headlining at the Las Vegas Hilton.^{[citation needed]}

2003–present: Work in television, live performance, break from recording[link]

Sheena Easton performing live on 7 November 2009

In 2003, Easton contributed vocals to "If You're Happy", a cover for a Japanese disc called Cover Morning Musume-Hello Project. She also began to host Vegas Live, a talk show with Clint Holmes (later replaced by Brian McKnight).

On 31 October 2004, she was inducted into the Casino Legends Hall of Fame at the Tropicana Resort & Casino along with fellow Las Vegas icons Debbie Reynolds, Ben Vereen, Patti Page, Jack Jones and Tempest Storm.^{[citation needed]}

In January 2005, Easton appeared in the television series Young Blades.^{[citation needed]}

In July 2005, she performed as the Narrator in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat at North Carolina Theatre in Raleigh, NC. The show co-starred Ray Walker as Joseph, Merwin Foard as the Pharaoh, David F.M. Vaughn as Reuben, Demond Green as Judah, and Darryl Winslow as Simeon.^{[citation needed]}

Easton worked with composer Nobuo Uematsu for two songs on the video game Lost Odyssey, released for the Xbox 360 video game system in February 2008.^{[citation needed]}

In 2008 and 2009, Easton performed Perry the Teenage Girl, When Will He Call Me?, and Happy Evil Love Song for the Disney Channel animated series Phineas and Ferb.^{[citation needed]}

Easton appeared in a celebration with Kenny Rogers at the MGM Grand at Foxwoods Resort Casino in Connecticut on 10 April 2010.^{[citation needed]} The show was in honor of his 50-year music career. This special is set debut on 8 March 2011 on Great American Country.

Personal life[link]

Easton has been married four times. The first was when she was in Scotland to Sandi Easton at the age of 19. The marriage lasted eight months. Sandi Easton died in 1998, aged 48.^[10]

Her second marriage in 1984 to Rob Light, a talent agent, ended after 18 months.^{[citation needed]} Easton was granted US citizenship in 1992 and adopted her first child, Jake Rion Cousins Easton, in 1994.^{[citation needed]} Two years later, she adopted again, this time a baby girl named Skylar.^{[citation needed]} In the summer of 1997, she met producer Tim Delarm while filming an episode of ESPN Canon Photo Safari in Yellowstone National Park and later married Delarm in Las Vegas in July 1997.^{[citation needed]} The marriage lasted one year. On 9 November 2002 she married John Minoli, a Beverly Hills plastic surgeon.^{[citation needed]} They divorced in 2003.

Easton is a single mother to her two children, and currently resides in Henderson, Nevada. She reportedly made shrewd investments in Florida property that led to her appearance on the Sunday Times Rich List, but she denies such claims.^[6]

Discography[link]

• Take My Time (1980)
• Sheena Easton (1981) retitled edition of Take My Time
• You Could Have Been with Me (1981)
• Madness, Money & Music (1982)
• Best Kept Secret (1983)
• A Private Heaven (1984)
• Todo Me Recuerda a Ti (1984) - Spanish language release
• Do You (1985)
• No Sound But a Heart (1987)
• The Lover in Me (1988)
• What Comes Naturally (1991)
• No Strings (1993)
• My Cherie (1995)
• Freedom (1997)
• Home (1999)
• Fabulous (2000)

Filmography[link]

• For Your Eyes Only (1981) - Herself in opening credit sequence
• Miami Vice (1987) - Caitlin Davies (five episodes)
• All Dogs Go to Heaven 2 (1996), All Dogs Go to Heaven: The Series (1996 - TV series), An All Dogs Christmas Carol (1998) - voice of Sasha LeFleur
• Body Bags (1993) - Megan (in segment titled "Hair")
• Highlander: The Series (1993) - Annie Devlin (in episode titled "An Eye for an Eye")
• The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr. (1993) - Crystal Hawks (one episode)
• Charles Dickens' David Copperfield (1993) - voice of Agnes
• TekWar (TV series) (1994) - War Bride
• Real Ghosts aka Haunted Lives: True Ghost Stories (1995) - Janet (nightclub owner)
• Gargoyles (1995) - Robyn Canmore, Banshee, Molly, Finella
• The Outer Limits (1996) - Melissa McCammon in episode titled "Falling Star"
• Road Rovers (1996) - Groomer, Persia, Mrs. British Prime Minister
• Duckman (1997) - Betty (one episode)
• Chicken Soup for the Soul (1999) - Vicky in episode titled "Sand Castles"
• Disney's The Legend of Tarzan (2001) - voice of Dr. Robin Doyle (two episodes)
• Vegas Live! With Clint Holmes and Sheena Easton (2003)
• Scooby-Doo and the Loch Ness Monster (2004) - voice of Professor Fiona Pembrooke
• Young Blades (2005) - Queen Anne

Broadway[link]

• Man of La Mancha- Aldonza- 1991-1992-reprise role in 1998 (Broadway show)
• Grease- 1996- Betty Rizzo (Broadway show)

See also[link]

• List of artists who reached number one in the United States
• List of artists who reached number one on the US Dance chart

References[link]

External links[link]

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v t e Sheena Easton Studio albums Take My Time You Could Have Been with Me Madness, Money & Music Best Kept Secret A Private Heaven Do You'' No Sound But a Heart The Lover in Me What Comes Naturally My Cherie Freedom Home Fabulous Singles "Modern Girl" "9 to 5" "One Man Woman" "For Your Eyes Only" "We've Got Tonight" "Telefone (Long Distance Love Affair)" "Strut" "Sugar Walls" "Swear" "Jimmy Mack" "U Got the Look" "The Lover in Me" "101" "The Arms of Orion" "What Comes Naturally" Related articles Discography Book:Sheena Easton

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The Sugarhill Gang is an American hip hop group, known mostly for its 1979 hit "Rapper's Delight," the first hip hop single to become a Top 40 hit. The song uses an interpolation of the instrumental track from the classic hit "Good Times" by Chic as its foundation.^[1]

The members, all from Englewood, New Jersey, called themselves Wonder Mike, Big Bank Hank, and Master Gee. The three were assembled into a group by producer Sylvia Robinson, who also founded Sugar Hill Records along with her husband, the record mogul Joe Robinson.^[2] "Rapper's Delight" used a track cut from a Sugar Hill house band called Positive Force with Chip Shearin on bass and Brian Morgan on guitar. The track interpolated "Good Times" by Chic. Big Bank Hank's verses were written by Grandmaster Caz. However, despite the record's success, Caz did not receive any royalties for his contribution.^[3] Chic's Nile Rodgers and Bernard Edwards filed a lawsuit for copyright infringement over "Rapper's Delight," the first of many such legal battles for hip hop. It was settled out of court, leaving Rodgers with a large cut of all future royalties.

The Sugarhill Gang never again topped the charts, though it had a few minor hits, such as "Apache," Eighth Wonder" (which was performed on the American music show Soul Train in 1981), "Rapper's Reprise (Jam Jam)," and "Showdown" (with the Furious Five). In 1999, the trio reunited and recorded Jump on It! a hip hop children's album. The group continue to tour.

Bob Sinclar collaborated with Wonder Mike and Master Gee on his 2009 release "Lala Song". The Sugarhill Gang is also known as the Original Sugar.

Discography[link]

The discography of The Sugarhill Gang includes four studio albums, nine compilations and fifteen singles.

Studio albums[link]

Compilation albums[link]

• Sugarhill Gang Greatest Hits (1984)
• The Best of Sugarhill Gang: Rapper's Delight (1996)
• Ain't Nothin' but a Party (1998)
• Back to the Old School 2 - Rapper's Delights (1999)
• Sugarhill Gang, The* Vs. Grandmaster Flash - The Greatest Hits (2000)
• The Greatest Hits of Sugarhill Gang (2004 Tour) (2004)
• The Story of Sugarhill Records (2005)
• Hip Hop Anniversary Europe Tour: Sugarhill Gang Live (2008)
• "Rhythm & Rhymes: The Definitive Collection" (2010)

Singles[link]

References[link]

External links[link]

• "I Want My Name Back" documentary on the Sugar Hill Gang, Featuring Master Gee and Wonder Mike
• Master Gee interview
• 2011 Interview with Big Bank Hank on Soulinterviews.com