"Every Kinda People" is a 1978 song

1978 in music

This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1978.-January–April:*January 14 – The Sex Pistols play their final show at San Francisco's Winterland Ballroom....

 originally performed by Robert Palmer in his Double Fun

Double Fun

Double Fun is Robert Palmer's fourth solo album, released in 1978. Self-produced, this pop album is influenced by multiple genres including blue-eyed soul, disco and heavy rock but maintains an overall consistency of production which holds it all together...

album. It was Palmer's first hit song in the U.S., reaching the Top 20. The song was written by Andy Fraser

Andy Fraser

Andy Fraser is an English songwriter and bass guitarist whose career has lasted over forty years and includes a notable period as one of the founding members, in 1968, at age 15, of the rock band Free.-Peak years :...

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With its blend of Caribbean steel pan, violins and moving lyrics, "Every Kinda People" has become one of Palmer's best-loved songs, covered multiple times by other artists (including Chaka Demus and Pliers, Randy Crawford

Randy Crawford

Randy Crawford is an American jazz and R&B singer. She has been more successful in Europe than in the United States, where she has not entered the Billboard Hot 100 as a solo artist...

 and Amy Grant

Amy Grant

Amy Lee Grant is an American singer-songwriter, musician, author, media personality and actress, best known for her Christian music. She has been referred to as "The Queen of Christian Pop"...

) and cited by music fans and spiritual groups for its positive message of peace

Peace

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 and multiculturalism

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In addition to the 1978 original, Palmer had it remixed on both of his Addictions greatest-hits albums, the first (in 1989) a slight remix by Eric Thorngren and the other a Caribbean-flavored 1992 version engineered by Pino Pischetola.

The song was covered by S Club member Jo O'Meara

Jo O'Meara

Joanne Valda O'Meara is an English singer-songwriter, television personality and actress. Formerly one of the lead singers of pop group S Club, she launched a solo single after the group's split in 2003, which cut short the production of a proposed album following an appearance on Celebrity Big...

 for the movie "The Guru" A video was shot but never released. It was going to be a single but was cancelled for still unknown reasons. It was also included in S Club's album, Seeing Double

Seeing Double (album)

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The song has also been covered by Frankie Goes To Hollywood

Frankie Goes to Hollywood

Frankie Goes to Hollywood were a British dance-pop band popular in the mid-1980s. The group was fronted by Holly Johnson , with Paul Rutherford , Peter Gill , Mark O'Toole , and Brian Nash .The group's debut single "Relax" was banned by the BBC in 1984 while at number six in the charts and...

 and was released as a rare track on the "Frankie Say Greatest

Frankie Say Greatest

Frankie Say Greatest is a compilation album by Frankie Goes to Hollywood, released in 2009 by ZTT Records. The album is available in various formats: single CD, double CD, double LP, and DVD...

" compilation (2009).