Precious Wilson

Precious Wilson ( born October 18, 1957 in Spanish Town, Jamaica ) is a Jamaican pop singer who was both with her band Eruption as well as solo successfully.

• 2.1 albums
• 2.2 Singles ( chart positions )

Career

With eruption

Wilson began her career in 1975 as a background singer of this time several years existing British band eruption. The group won the RCA Soul Search Contest in London and brought out her first single. After the former lead singer Leslie Lindell had left the band Eruption, Wilson became the new lead singer. In the changed lineup, they toured in the following years due to Germany where Frank Farian in 1977 was aware of the band, the band gave a record deal and let them occur in the same year as the opening act for Boney M.. The second single, I Can not Stand the Rain was a Top 10 hit in Germany, England, Austria, Norway, Sweden and Switzerland, and a Top 20 hit in the United States. Another hit in Germany succeeded with One Way Ticket, before Wilson left the band in 1979 in favor of a solo career.

Solo

Wilson released with Hold On I'm Coming, a cover version of the title of Sam & Dave, already in her separation from her first single eruption as a solo artist, but without much success. In 1980 the album On the Race Track. The first single, Cry to Me, a cover version of a song by Solomon Burke, in Germany could not place in the charts, but reached number 3 in Switzerland This title was broadcast on TV in the GDR. Especially by the appearance of Helga Hahnemann took it the population note. It was the second single, We Are on the Race Track, was a success and peaked at # 11 in the German charts.

The published the following year single I Need You reached again only a moderate sales success in Germany, in Switzerland the title, however, was again in the top 10 in 1982 was followed by the second album called All Coloured in Love, which is not as well as the singles at the could join previous successes. When that 's 1983 album Funky Fingers flopped, broke the record company to their contract. Wilson then returned to England and signed a new contract with Jive Records. They released the album Precious Wilson and several singles, including the title song of the movie Romancing The Jewel of the Nile with Michael Douglas. Although the film itself was highly successful, the musical success was further commemorated by the producer team Stock Aitken Waterman could not change with which they worked in 1987. It was not until the early 1990s she had again minor successes, spacer was also placed in France and a cover version of Donna Summer's I Feel Love reached the Top 20 in the UK.

Wilson enters the 2000s with her ​​solo and band successes as Eruption feat. Precious Wilson.

Discography

Albums

Singles ( chart positions )

Awards for music sales

Silver record

• Great Britain 1978: for the single " I Can not Stand the Rain"