Rainy Davis
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Rainy Davis is a singer, songwriter, and music producer most famous for her album and single Sweetheart. Davis wrote "Sweetheart" with Janet Jackson in mind, hoping to submit it in time for her 1986 album Control, but she didn't make it in time. She recorded the song herself, and it became a major hit in the dance and club scene. The song was later recorded by Mariah Carey and Jermaine Dupri on Dupri's 1998 solo album Life in 1472.
Davis has worked with acts such as Benjamin Wright, Ray Parker Jr., Ollie Brown, Musique, Patrick Adams, Beckie Bell, Shannon, Fonda Rae, Skipworth & Turner, Charisse, Keith Sweat, Larry Peoples, Bert deCoteaux, Clarence Burke, Jerry Knight, Oren Waters, David Williams, Jerry Hey, Richard Tee, Beranrd "Pretty" Purdy, Cornell Dupree, David Wilkes, James Gadson, Rae Steve Ferrone, Dean Gant, Michael Boddicker, Anthony Jackson, Edmund Sylvers, Wah-Wah Watson, The Cover Girls, Angel Sabater, Wu-Tang / Protect-Ya-Neck, The Rza, MMO, Padrone, and Pete Kessler.
Davis is now CEO and founder of the new production company turned label called Rainysongs Entertainment, which formed in September 2005. Rainysongs Entertainment has secured global Internet distribution for all media and will start releasing product in the first quarter of 2007.