Cherrelle
Cherrelle ( born October 13, 1958 in Los Angeles, California, USA as Cheryl Anne Norton ) is an American R & B singer. Your greatest achievements came in the 1980s with the production duo Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis.
Overall, she placed 1984-1999 13 hits in the American R & B charts. Their best-known songs were " I did not mean to turn you on", " Where Do I Run To ", "Everything I Miss at Home" and your duets with R & B singer Alexander O'Neal such as "Saturday Love" and "Never Knew Love Like This ".
Cheryl Anne Norton chose the stage name Cherrelle after her former boss had called her that.
Career
Cherrelle began her career with the R & B and jazz artists Norman Connors and Michael Henderson, as well as a background singer for Luther Vandross. After Tabu Records founder Clarence Avant heard a demo recording of Cherrelle, you got a record deal in 1983 with this record label.
In 1984 their debut album Cherrelle Fragile, which was produced by Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis. The album contained the American R & B Top Ten single "I did not mean to turn you on." The video for this song was a tribute to King Kong. Cherrelle played the woman in the King Kong falls in love. This song was covered by pop singer Robert Palmer on his album Riptide 1985. Similarly, the song was covered in 2001 by Mariah Carey on your soundtrack album Glitter using the original instrumental tracks.
Cherrelles follow-up album High Priority received gold status and included the U.S. Top 40 hit (# 2 Billboard R & B) Saturday Love, a duet with Alexander O'Neal. In the UK, the song peaked at # 6 on the charts. The song Never Knew Love like this, as a duet with Alexander O'Neal, rose to number 28 on the Billboard Pop Charts and # 2 on the U.S. R & B charts.
In 1988, the album was released Affair. This included the U.S. R & B Top 1 hit " Everything I Miss at Home". The title track of the album was also a hit with the Spitzenpazierung to rank 4 on the Billboard R & B charts.
Cherrelles cousin 's R & B pop singer Perri " Pebbles " Reid. Cherrelle played in 1991 along with Johnny Gill ( New Edition) on Pebbles single " Always" that rose into the Top 20 on the Billboard R & B charts. In the same year published Cherrelle album "The Woman I Am". This was the first album, which was not fully produced and written by the producers Jam and Lewis. She worked on this album with producer Narada Michael Walden, who was known by working with Whitney Houston.
Published in 1999, Cherrelle her latest album "The right time" on the independent label "Power". On this album played as a guest musician rapper Keith Murray.
In 2011, the American television channel TV One presented a sequence of Cherrelle and Alexander O'Neal in the series Unsung, the R & B Stars is dedicated to that received less attention than others.
In the same year both occurred together at the BET Awards, singing live their hits.