Zelma Davis

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Zelma Davis is a Liberian-born singer who rose to fame, in the early 1990s, as one of the featured vocalists for the dance/hip hop act C+C Music Factory. Also a featured vocalist on album "Lucky Man" by Dave Koz.

[edit] C+C Music Factory

Upon C+C Music Factory's emergence onto the scene in late 1990, Davis was marketed as the principal vocalist of the ensemble—despite there having been several other female vocalists, in addition to her, who had provided the vocals to various tracks on the groups debut album, Gonna Make You Sweat. Davis appeared in the music video for the albums number one Hot 100 charting title track, where she lip-synced to vocals which had, in fact, been sung by Martha Wash.^[1]

Wash (who had also provided vocals to Black Box during the same period, and also saw that group use models to lip-sync to her voice in the music videos) did not appreciate the perception of Davis being the voice behind the hit song, and proceeded to file a lawsuit against the group. With this happening during the height of the Milli Vanilli lip-syncing scandal, Davis found herself being accused of being a no talent—despite her having actually performed a number of songs on C+C's album.^{[citation needed]}

In 1994, Davis (along with Wash, whose lawsuit was settled out of court) reunited with the group to record C+C Music Factory’s second album, Anything Goes!^[2] to which Zelma contributed the vocals on I Found Love^[3]

As part of C+C Music Factory, Davis hit #1 on Billboard's Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart four times. C+C Music Factory was recognized with one Grammy Award nomination, five American Music Awards, five Billboard Music Awards, two MTV Music Video Awards, and several European, Japanese and Australian Music Awards.

[edit] See also

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

[edit] References

v • d • e C+C Music Factory Robert Clivillés · David Cole · Freedom Williams · Martha Wash · Zelma Davis · Deborah Cooper Trilogy  · Paul Pesco · Q-Unique Albums Gonna Make You Sweat · Anything Goes! · C+C Music Factory Singles "Gonna Make You Sweat (Everybody Dance Now)" · "Here We Go (Let's Rock & Roll)" · "Things That Make You Go Hmmm" · "Just a Touch of Love" · "Keep it Comin' (Dance Till You Can't Dance No More)" · "Do You Wanna Get Funky" · "Take a Toke" · "I'll Always Be Around" Related articles Columbia Records · MCA Records · The S.O.U.L. S.Y.S.T.E.M. · "Black or White" · "Rock This Party (Everybody Dance Now)"