Jaya (1989 album)

Jaya was the first album by Filipino-Jamaican singer actress and tv host Jaya. The album was produced by Stevie B and Don Glenn Gutierrez under LMR Records. She was offered an opportunity to finish an album that had already been started by another artist. In February 1989, she signed a record deal with LMR Records (New York). Later that year, her first self-titled debut album was released in the U.S. The first single, "If You Leave Me Now", was a hit in the dance clubs and was subsequently released to Top 40 radio. The single entered the Billboard Hot 100 chart in October 1989. It eventually peaked at number 44 in February 1990 and remained in the Top 100 pop singles chart for 26 weeks, an unusually long chart run for a single that peaked outside the Top 40. According to playlists submitted to Billboard magazine by American radio stations at the time, the song was a top 20 hit on dance-pop stations in various large markets, such as New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago and San Francisco. The song features a strong vocal performance by Jaya as well as many elements associated with freestyle music, which in the late 1980s was beginning to reach a wider audience in the U.S. "If You Leave Me Now" also gave Jaya the opportunity to work across the US with top artists like Stevie B, MC Hammer, Milli Vanilli, James Ingram, The Jets, and many more.

In 1990, Jaya released her second single, "One Kiss Per Minute" which peaked at #36 on Billboard's Hot Dance Music\Club Play chart.

Track listing

1. "If You Leave Me Now" (Stevie B) – 4:38
2. "You Mean Everything To Me"(Stevie B, Danilo Macala) – 4:13
3. "Hooked On Your Love" (Warren Brooks) – 4:09
4. "One Kiss Per Minute" (Stevie B, Warren Brooks, Glenn Gutierrez) – 5:12
5. "Shadow Love" (Jeff Franzel, Eliot Archer) – 4:48
6. "Everybody Wants What I Got" (Glenn Gutierrez) – 5:22
7. "Tonight You'll See"(Stevie B, Glenn Gutierrez) – 5:10
8. "Bring Back Your Loving"(Stevie B, Warren Brooks) – 4:22

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