Fern Kinney

Fern Kinney (* Jackson, Mississippi) is a former American R & B and pop singer.

Kinney began her musical career in the mid -1960s. As a replacement for the singer Patsy McClune she became a member of the girl trio, The Poppies. With the band she succeeded in 1966 at the height of the girl group wave of the 1960s titled Lullaby of Love became a hit in the U.S. Billboard charts. Still a member of the band took the 1968 Atlantic Records her first solo single on whose commercial success, however, failed to materialize.

Beginning of the 1970s, she worked in the studios Malaco and North American as a studio musician and background singer. Among other things, she has been heard on recordings by Jean Knight and Frederick Knight. The soul singer King Floyd supported her in 1970 at the Top Ten Single Groove Me and her former bandmate Dorothy Moore Misty Blue in their hit single from 1976.

Mid -1970s to Kinney retired from the music business and pursued as a housewife her private life. But in 1979, she decided to venture a comeback, and took up its own version of King Floyd's Groove Me. The Soul song she transformed into a disco number and thus reached # 6 on the Billboard Club Play charts. The follow-up single followed the same pattern: Together We Are Beautiful, originally by Ken Leray from 1977, backed it with a slow, oppressive disco beat. Although the single missed the charts in their home country, but increased in March 1980 surprisingly for a week at No. 1 on the UK charts.

In the following years, Kinney released a few singles in the disco style. The trend had but already passed its zenith and Kinney was not able to repeat their success. She went back to her job as a background singer and remained a classic one hit wonder.

• Pop singer
• R & B singer
• American musician
• Born in the 20th century
• Woman