Meli'sa Morgan
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Meli'sa Morgan is a female African American R&B singer born in Queens New York who had a string of Urban contemporary and House music hits in the 1980's and 1990's.
Her initial chart entry was as the lead singer of the dance group Shades Of Love. They had a single entry on the Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart in 1982, the #26 "Keep In Touch (Body To Body)."
That same year businessman Jacques Fred Petrus asked her to join his newly created band High Fashion. She became together with two other New York vocalists, Eric McClinton and Alyson Williams the outfit for the new studio creation. The band scored one big hit with the infectious "Feelin' Lucky Lately" that reached the No 32 spot on Billboard's Black Singles list. Besides the hit track and Kashif penned "Hold On", that both were disco/R&B oriented similar to the sound of Change (one of Petrus' other creations), the rest of the album had a more lighter Euro-pop style sound. In 1983 Meli'sa Morgan was replaced by jazz vocalist Marcella Allen.
As a solo artist she topped the R&B chart with a remake of Prince's "Do Me, Baby," which also became her only Billboard Hot 100 entry, peaking at #46 in 1986. She had several solo hits on the US dance chart as well, including "Still In Love With You," which hit #3 in 1992.
Repopularized from new remixes, "Keep In Touch (Body To Body)" hit the dance chart again in 1994, this time hitting #1.
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After a lengthy hiatus, Meli'sa began work her long awaited fifth solo album, "I Remember." The albums' release her preceded by the first single, "Back Together Again", a cover of her Roberta Flack and Donny Hathaway classic. The single was well received and gained moderated airplay on Urban contemporary radio stations during early 2006. The follow up singles include "I Remember", the club banger, "Will You?", and the silky sophisticated slow jam, "High Maintenance" released in September 2006.
[edit] Discography
[edit] Albums
- Do Me Baby 1986, Capitol
- Good Love 1988, Capitol
- The Lady In Me 1990, Capitol
- Still In Love With You 1992, Pendulum/Elektra
- Do You Still Love Me, The Best of Meli'sa Morgan 1996, Capitol
- I Remember, 2005, Orpheus (Independent)
[edit] See also
- List of number-one dance hits (United States)
- List of artists who reached number one on the US Dance chart
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