Judy Cheeks
Judy Cheeks ( born February 13, 1954 in Miami) is an American disco, pop and house singer.
Career
Judy Cheeks began singing in church at a young age. Her father, a gospel singer and preacher Rev. Julius Cheeks, was a member of the gospel group The Sensational Nightingales and The Soul Stirrers. Your own career began in 1973 at United Artists. The Ike and Tina Turner produced LP Judy Cheeks with the single releases Endlessly and Flu You did not bring the hoped-for breakthrough.
Only a few years later, Cheeks lived in Germany and now stood at Ariola under contract, she managed an international disco hit with Mellow Lovin '. In the U.S., the recording was released by the specialized in Disco Music label Salsoul and Tom Moulton mixed the piece. It reached the top 10 of the American disco and number 65 on the pop charts. Cheeks took on a second LP and also sang a duet with Udo Jürgens. Once when you was going a minor hit in the Netherlands (1978 No. 21 ). In the following years more singles like Do not Wanna Love You Again (1979 ), Mercy and Starting Again (On a New Love Affair ) ( 1980) and an LP for the Italian market appeared.
After the failure of the LP No Outsiders Cheeks came in the mid -1990s, an astonishing comeback. With the House Composition So in Love ( The Real Deal ) and Reach they had, above all, in the UK a lot of success. In the U.S., it was started in 1995 even better because with Respect and As Long As You're Good to Me you get two consecutive number -one hit in the disco charts. The album, published in 1996 Respect contained the hits mentioned as well as the single You're the Story of My Life, a dramatic ballad, written by Desmond Child.
Despite these great successes in dance, it was quiet again in the following years to Cheeks. She retired for several years in her private life. In 2013, she released a new single, Happy with which they remembered their gospel roots. In the summer of the same year the album True Love Is Free followed.