Sandra Gillette who goes by her last name, is a former R&B

Rhythm and blues

Rhythm and blues, often abbreviated to R&B, is a genre of popular African American music that originated in the 1940s. The term was originally used by record companies to describe recordings marketed predominantly to urban African Americans, at a time when "urbane, rocking, jazz based music with a...

-Dance

Dance music

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 artist from the 1990s.

She was born in New Jersey

New Jersey

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 to a Puerto Rican mother and Mexican father and grew up in Chicago

Chicago

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 and Houston

Houston, Texas

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, singing and rapping

Rapping

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 her way through the 1990s. Sandra Gillette graduated from Romeoville High School

Romeoville High School

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Gillette is best known for her dance hits "Short Dick Man

Short Dick Man

"Short Dick Man" is a 1994 song recorded by band 20 Fingers, featuring Gillette. It was its debut single from its album 20 Fingers, released from August 31, 1994...

" and "Mr. Personality" from her 1994 album, On the Attack. In 1996, she released her second album, Shake Your Money Maker. To be permitted for airplay, "Short Dick Man" was released titled as "Short Short Man" with the censored title. Her producers, 20 Fingers

20 Fingers

20 Fingers is the name of a musical group created by Charlie Babie and Manfred Mohr. They were popular in the early 1990s for producing a series of pop music, dance music and rap music songs.-The first hit:...

, were in charge of some of her biggest hits. She was cast in several independent films, and in 2004, she co-founded a Cabaret

Cabaret

Cabaret is a form, or place, of entertainment featuring comedy, song, dance, and theatre, distinguished mainly by the performance venue: a restaurant or nightclub with a stage for performances and the audience sitting at tables watching the performance, as introduced by a master of ceremonies or...

 group called Peekaboo Revue. After a year of performances, the group eventually went their own ways.

Singles and EPs

• "Short Dick Man
  Short Dick Man
  "Short Dick Man" is a 1994 song recorded by band 20 Fingers, featuring Gillette. It was its debut single from its album 20 Fingers, released from August 31, 1994...
  
  " (1994)
• "You're a Dog" (1995)
• "Mr. Personality" (1995)
• "Ugly" (1995)
• "Do Fries Go with That Shake?" (1996)
• "Bounce" (1996)
• "Shake Your Money Maker" (1997)
• "Sex Tonight" (2000)