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Celeda is an African American

African American

African Americans are citizens or residents of the United States who have at least partial ancestry from any of the native populations of Sub-Saharan Africa and are the direct descendants of enslaved Africans within the boundaries of the present United States...

dance music

Dance music

Dance music is music composed specifically to facilitate or accompany dancing. It can be either a whole musical piece or part of a larger musical arrangement...

singer

Singing

Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice, and augments regular speech by the use of both tonality and rhythm. One who sings is called a singer or vocalist. Singers perform music known as songs that can be sung either with or without accompaniment by musical instruments...

and drag

Drag (clothing)

Drag is used for any clothing carrying symbolic significance but usually referring to the clothing associated with one gender role when worn by a person of another gender. The origin of the term "drag" is unknown, but it may have originated in Polari, a gay street argot in England in the early...

performer born in Chicago

Chicago

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, Illinois

Illinois

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. She began having hits

Hit record

A hit record is a sound recording, usually in the form of a single or album, that sells a large number of copies or otherwise becomes broadly popular or well-known, through airplay, club play, inclusion in a film or stage play soundtrack, causing it to have "hit" one of the popular chart listings...

on the U.S.

United States

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Hot Dance Club Play

The Hot Dance Club Songs chart is a weekly national survey of the songs that are most popular in U.S. dance clubs...

chart

Record chart

A record chart is a ranking of recorded music according to popularity during a given period of time. Examples of music charts are the Hit parade, Hot 100 or Top 40....

in the late 1990s, beginning with "Music Is the Answer (Dancin' & Prancin')," a collaboration with DJ

Disc jockey

A disc jockey, also known as DJ, is a person who selects and plays recorded music for an audience. Originally, "disc" referred to phonograph records, not the later Compact Discs. Today, the term includes all forms of music playback, no matter the medium.There are several types of disc jockeys...

and producer

Record producer

A record producer is an individual working within the music industry, whose job is to oversee and manage the recording of an artist's music...

Danny Tenaglia

Danny Tenaglia is a New York-based DJ and Grammy nominated record producer.-Early life:At the age of ten, Tenaglia first started to collect records. In 1979 he began going to nightclub Paradise Garage, where DJ Larry Levan's genre-less blend of music appealed to him...

that peaked at number 15 in 1998. The track reached #36 in the UK Singles Chart

UK Singles Chart

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in September 1998.

In 1999, Celeda released a full length album entitled This Is It on Twisted Records and on the Portuguese

Portugal

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Kaos Records. The album featured tracks produced by E-Smoove, Danny Tenaglia

Danny Tenaglia

, Cevin Fisher

Cevin Fisher

Cevin Fisher is an American house music record producer. He is best known for songs such as "The Freaks Come Out" and " Burning Up," the latter of which featured vocals by Loleatta Holloway...

, Peter Rauhofer

Peter Rauhofer

Peter Rauhofer is a DJ, remixer and producer who formerly went under the moniker Club 69 as well as Size Queen. A native of Vienna, Austria, he is famous for his remixes of a number of Madonna's songs including "Nothing Really Matters", "American Life", "Nothing Fails, "Nobody Knows Me", "Get...

and Maurice Joshua

Maurice Joshua

Maurice Joshua, also known just as Maurice, born in Chicago, Illinois, is a record producer who is most known for his laid back and soulful House music style remixes.-Career:...

among others. The tracks released as singles were "Messin' with My Mind" (1997), "Music Is the Answer (Dancin' & Prancin')" (1998), "Be Yourself (And No One Else)" and "Burnin' Up" (1999). The album also contained the dance hits "Let the Music Use You Up" and "Happy".

This Is It track listing

"Burnin' Up"
"Try Again"
"Hooked on You"
"Music Is the Answer (Dancin' & Prancin')"
"Happy"
"Movin' On"
"Let the Music Use You Up"
"I'm Grateful"
"Release the Power"
"Beat Me Down"
"Messin' with My Mind"
"Be Yourself (And No One Else)" (Parts 1 & 2)
"Get It Together"
"This Is It"

Since then Celeda placed four consecutive singles

Single (music)

In music, a single or record single is a type of release, typically a recording of fewer tracks than an LP or a CD. This can be released for sale to the public in a variety of different formats. In most cases, the single is a song that is released separately from an album, but it can still appear...

in the top 10, including "The Underground", which hit number one on the U.S. dance chart in 2001 (originally produced by Peter Rauhofer

Peter Rauhofer

and remixed by Saeed & Palash). "Dirtyfilthy", a collaboration with Superchumbo

Tom Stephan

Tom Stephan is a house music producer and DJ.-Biography:Tom Stephan was raised in the western New York town of Olean but moved to London to go to college. It was in London that he started his DJ career, opening up for Danny Tenaglia and eventually hosting regular house nights at the Turnmills club...

, became her second chart-topper in 2004, and "Amazing" topped the dance chart in 2008.

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