Shandi Sinnamon

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Shandi Sinnamon (1954 - ) is an American singer, song writer.

She was born to a Huguenot family as Shandra Sinnamon in Miami, Florida. After dropping out of high school, she left home for Big Sur, California. Her ambition was to become a singer and songwriter.

After encountering a bicycle accident there, she got back to Florida for recuperation. After recovering, she studied music and drama at a community college. While she was singing in a local restaurant, a disc jockey noticed her talent and introduced her to Elektra/Asylum Records.

In 1976, she released her first album Shandi Sinnamon from Asylum. In 1978, she sang the theme song of the TV drama Leave Yesterday Behind.

Around the same time, while she was singing as a background singer in Los Angeles, California, Mike Chapman discovered her. In 1980, she released her second album Shandi from Dreamland Records. Chapman himself produced that album under the alias of Commander Chapman. Her name inspired Shandi of Kiss (1980).

In 1983, she participated in the soundtrack of the film Flashdance, and won a grammy award for a song He's A Dream.

Ever since she has written songs for films and TV dramas, including The Karate Kid, Echo Park, Bloodsport and Charles in Charge. In 1985, her song Making It (composed by Richie Zito) became a local hit in Japan.

She has worked as a background singer with Todd Rundgren, Bernadette Peters, Hoyt Axton and Johnny Halliday.

Now she lives in Eugene, Oregon.