Narada Michael Walden is an American

United States

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 producer

Record producer

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, drummer

Drummer

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, 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 songwriter

Songwriter

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. He was given the name Narada

Narada

Narada or Narada Muni is a divine sage from the Vaisnava tradition, who plays a prominent role in a number of the Puranic texts, especially in the Bhagavata Purana, and in the Ramayana...

 by guru Sri Chinmoy

Sri Chinmoy

Chinmoy Kumar Ghose, also known as Sri Chinmoy was an Indian spiritual teacher, poet, artist and athlete who immigrated to the U.S. in 1964., the founder of the religious organization "Sri Chinmoy Centre Church, Inc." better known as "Sri Chinmoy Centre"...

 in the early 1970s and his musical career spans three decades, in which he was awarded several gold, platinum and multi-platinum

Music recording sales certification

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 awards. Walden has also owned and operated Tarpan Studios, a well-known recording studio

Recording studio

A recording studio is a facility for sound recording and mixing. Ideally both the recording and monitoring spaces are specially designed by an acoustician to achieve optimum acoustic properties...

 in San Rafael

San Rafael, California

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, California

California

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, since the mid-1980s.

Performing career

His stage career included appearances with John McLaughlin

John McLaughlin (musician)

John McLaughlin , also known as Mahavishnu John McLaughlin, is an English guitarist, bandleader and composer...

 and the Mahavishnu Orchestra (where he replaced legendary drummer Billy Cobham

Billy Cobham

William C. Cobham is a Panamanian American jazz drummer, composer and bandleader, who has called Switzerland home since the late 1970s....

),, Jeff Beck

Jeff Beck

Geoffrey Arnold "Jeff" Beck is an English rock guitarist. He is one of three noted guitarists to have played with The Yardbirds...

 (on Beck's album Wired) and Tommy Bolin

Tommy Bolin

Thomas Richard "Tommy" Bolin was an American-born guitarist who played with Zephyr , The James Gang , and Deep Purple , in addition to doing solo work...

 Band.

His first album, Garden of Love Light, was released in 1976 and included the track "Delightful", song from Tommy Bolin Band setlist. The lone single released from the album, it charted at #81 on the R&B charts in the spring of 1977.

His 1979 album Awakening peaked at #15 on the R&B charts, spawning a Top 10 hit with "I Don't Want Nobody Else (To Dance With You )". Later that year, his album The Dance of Life yielded the Top 5 single "I Shoulda Loved Ya", which also made the UK Top 10 in 1980. "Gimme Gimme Gimme", his 1985 duet with Patti Austin

Patti Austin

-Life and career:Austin was born in Harlem, New York. She made her debut at the Apollo Theater at age four and had a contract with RCA Records when she was only five. Quincy Jones and Dinah Washington have proclaimed themselves as her godparents....

, reached #1 in Sweden. In 1988, he scored another UK top 10 hit and a #1 US Dance hit, with "Divine Emotions

Divine Emotions

Divine Emotions is a 1988 single by Narada Michael Walden. A successful producer, Walden billed himself for his later music releases. After producing acts like Aretha Franklin and Whitney Houston in the mid-1980s, Walden released Divine Emotions, which reached number on one the dance charts...

" under the name Narada

Narada

Narada or Narada Muni is a divine sage from the Vaisnava tradition, who plays a prominent role in a number of the Puranic texts, especially in the Bhagavata Purana, and in the Ramayana...

.

Achievements

Number one hits have included several collaborations

• Whitney Houston
  Whitney Houston
  Whitney Elizabeth Houston is an American singer, actress, producer and a former model. Houston is the most awarded female act of all time, according to Guinness World Records, and her list of awards include 1 Emmy Award, 6 Grammy Awards, 30 Billboard Music Awards, 22 American Music Awards, among...
  
  
  • "How Will I Know
    How Will I Know
    "How Will I Know" is a song recorded by American recording artist Whitney Houston for her debut album, entitled Whitney Houston, which was released in February 1985. It was released by Arista Records in November that year, as the album's third single. Composed by George Merrill and Shannon Rubicam,...
    
    "
  • "I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me)
    I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me)
    "I Wanna Dance with Somebody " is the first single from Whitney Houston's second studio album Whitney. It was produced by Narada Michael Walden, and written by George Merrill and Shannon Rubicam of the band Boy Meets Girl, who had previously written the number-one Whitney Houston hit "How Will I...
    
    "
  • "So Emotional
    So Emotional
    "So Emotional" is a song recorded by American pop/ R&B singer Whitney Houston. The song was the third single from her second album Whitney, and was released on November 12, 1987....
    
    "
  • "Where Do Broken Hearts Go
    Where Do Broken Hearts Go
    "Where Do Broken Hearts Go" is the fourth single from Whitney Houston's second album, Whitney. The ballad was released in February 1988. The song was written by Frank Wildhorn and Chuck Jackson. Wildhorn approached Jackson about the opportunity to write for Whitney Houston...
    
    "
  • "All the Man That I Need
    All the Man That I Need
    "All the Man That I Need" is a song written by American songwriters Dean Pitchford and Michael Gore. The song was first recorded under the name "All the man I need" by singer Linda Clifford, in 1982, for her album I'll Keep on Loving You. Pitchford and Gore had in mind Clifford and her husband...
    
    "
• Mariah Carey
  Mariah Carey
  Mariah Carey is an American singer-songwriter, record producer, and actress. She made her recording debut with the release of her eponymous studio album in 1990, under the guidance of Columbia Records executive Tommy Mottola, whom she later married in 1993...
  
  
  • "I Don't Wanna Cry
    I Don't Wanna Cry
    "I Don't Wanna Cry" is a song written by Mariah Carey and Narada Michael Walden, and produced by Walden for Carey's debut album, Mariah Carey . The ballad was released as the album's fourth single in the second quarter of 1991. It became another U.S. number 1 single for Carey...
    
    
  • "Heartbreaker
    Heartbreaker (Mariah Carey song)
    "Heartbreaker" is a song by American singer-songwriter Mariah Carey. It was released on September 21, 1999 by Columbia Records as the lead single from Carey's seventh studio album, Rainbow . The song was written by Carey and Jay-Z and produced by the former and DJ Clue...
    
    
• Aretha Franklin
  Aretha Franklin
  Aretha Louise Franklin is an American singer, songwriter, and pianist. Although known for her soul recordings and referred to as The Queen of Soul, Franklin is also adept at jazz, blues, R&B, gospel music, and rock. Rolling Stone magazine ranked her atop its list of The Greatest Singers of All...
  
  
  • "Freeway of Love
    Freeway of Love
    "Freeway of Love" is a Grammy Award-winning song released as the first single from Aretha Franklin's 1985 album Who's Zoomin' Who?. It was very successful in the United States, peaking at the #3 position of the Billboard Hot 100 chart, and topping the Hot R&B Singles chart for five weeks . It went...
    
    "
• Aretha Franklin
  Aretha Franklin
  Aretha Louise Franklin is an American singer, songwriter, and pianist. Although known for her soul recordings and referred to as The Queen of Soul, Franklin is also adept at jazz, blues, R&B, gospel music, and rock. Rolling Stone magazine ranked her atop its list of The Greatest Singers of All...
  
   & George Michael
  George Michael
  George Michael is a British musician, singer, songwriter and record producer who rose to fame in the 1980s when he formed the pop duo Wham! with his school friend, Andrew Ridgeley...
  
  
  • "I Knew You Were Waiting (For Me)
    I Knew You Were Waiting (for Me)
    "I Knew You Were Waiting " is a song performed by Aretha Franklin and George Michael as a duet in 1987. It was written by Simon Climie and Dennis Morgan.-Music video:...
    
    " (duet)
• Diana Ross
  Diana Ross
  Diana Ernestine Earle Ross is an American singer, record producer, and actress. Ross was lead singer of the Motown group The Supremes during the 1960s. After leaving the group in 1970, Ross began a solo career that included successful ventures into film and Broadway...
  
  
  • "Take Me Higher
    Take Me Higher
    Take Me Higher is a 1995 album by American soul singer Diana Ross released on the Motown label. The album featured production from urban adult contemporary producers such as Narada Michael Walden, Brenda Russell, Jon-John and the Boom Brothers, the latter two coming from Babyface's production company...
    
    "
• Regina Belle
  Regina Belle
  Regina Belle is a singer-songwriter who first surfaced in the late 1980s. She is notable for her Grammy award winning duet with Peabo Bryson, "A Whole New World".-Biography:Regina Belle was born in Englewood, New Jersey...
  
  
  • "Baby, Come to Me
    Baby, Come to Me
    "Baby, Come to Me" is an R&B song, written by Rod Temperton for a male-female duet. The original version, performed by Patti Austin and James Ingram , and produced by Quincy Jones, appeared on Austin's 1981 album, Every Home Should Have One. When first released as a single, it had minor chart...
    
    "
• Starship
  Jefferson Starship
  Jefferson Starship is an American rock band formed in the early 1970s. The group is a spin-off from the iconic 1960s psychedelic/folk group Jefferson Airplane. The band has undergone several major changes in personnel and genres through the years while retaining the same Jefferson Starship name...
  
  
  • "Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now
    Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now
    "Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now" is a #1 hit song co-written by Albert Hammond and Diane Warren, recorded by Starship. Featured as the theme to the romantic comedy film Mannequin, it hit #1 in the Billboard Hot 100 on April 4, 1987 and reached #1 on the UK Singles Chart for four weeks the following...
    
    "
• Lisa Fischer
  Lisa Fischer
  Lisa Fischer is an American R&B singer and songwriter. She rose to fame in 1991 with her debut album So Intense, which produced the Grammy Award winning hit single "How Can I Ease the Pain". Known for her high notes, which extends into the whistle register, Fischer has been recognized as one of...
  
  
  • "How Can I Ease the Pain
    How Can I Ease the Pain
    "How Can I Ease the Pain" is a song by American singer Lisa Fischer, from her album So Intense. It was produced by Narada Michael Walden and Louis Biancaniello. The hit song spent two weeks at number-one on the U.S...
    
    "
• Tevin Campbell
  Tevin Campbell
  Tevin Jermod Campbell is an American R&B singer-songwriter and actor. He scored a string of R&B chart hits as a teenager in the early to mid-1990s.-Music career:...
  
  
  • "Tell Me What You Want Me to Do
    Tell Me What You Want Me to Do
    "Tell Me What You Want Me to Do" is the title of a number-one R&B single by singer Tevin Campbell. To date, the single is Campbell's biggest hit peaking at #6 on the Billboard Hot 100 and spending one week at number-one on the US R&B chart. The hit song is also Tevin's one and only #1 Adult...
    
    "
• Al Jarreau
  Al Jarreau
  Alwin "Al" Lopez Jarreau is a seven-time Grammy Award winning jazz singer.- Background :Jarreau was born in Milwaukee, the fifth of six children. His web site refers to Reservoir, Inc., the name of the street where he lived. His father was a Seventh-Day Adventist Church minister and singer, and...
  
  
  • "Heaven & Earth"

He has contributed to a diverse range of musical genres including rock

Rock and roll

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, jazz

Jazz

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, pop

Pop music

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, R&B and fusion

Jazz fusion

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.

He was awarded Grammys for Producer of the Year in 1987, Album of the Year for the movie soundtrack The Bodyguard

The Bodyguard

The Bodyguard is a 1992 American romantic-thriller film starring Kevin Costner and Whitney Houston. Costner stars as a former Secret Service Agent turned bodyguard who is hired to protect Houston's character, a music star, from an unknown stalker. Lawrence Kasdan wrote the film in the 1970s,...

 in 1993 and the Song of the Year in 1985 for Aretha Franklin's "Freeway of Love." He was also named as one of the "Top Ten Producers With the Most Number One Hits" by Billboard magazine.

Albums

• Garden of Love Light - 1976
• I Cry, I Smile - 1977
• Awakening - 1979
• The Dance of Life - 1979
• Victory - 1980
• Confidence - 1982
• Looking At You, Looking At Me - 1983
• The Nature of Things - 1985
• Divine Emotion - 1988

Singles

• "Delightful" (1977)
• "Give Your Love a Chance" (1979)
• "I Don't Want Nobody Else (to Dance with You)" (1979)
• "I Shoulda Loved Ya" (1980)
• "Tonight I'm Alright" (1980)
• "The Real Thang" (1980)
• "Summer Lady" (1982)
• "Reach Out (I'll Be There)" (1983)
• "Gimme, Gimme, Gimme
  Gimme, Gimme, Gimme (Narada Michael Walden song)
  "Gimme, Gimme, Gimme" is a 1985 song performed by Narada Michael Walden and Patti Austin....
  
  " (1985)
• "Divine Emotions
  Divine Emotions
  Divine Emotions is a 1988 single by Narada Michael Walden. A successful producer, Walden billed himself for his later music releases. After producing acts like Aretha Franklin and Whitney Houston in the mid-1980s, Walden released Divine Emotions, which reached number on one the dance charts...
  
  " (as Narada) (1988)

Soundtracks

• Beverly Hills Cop II
  Beverly Hills Cop II
  Beverly Hills Cop II is a 1987 action-comedy film starring Eddie Murphy and directed by Tony Scott. It is the first sequel in the Beverly Hills Cop series. Murphy returns as Detroit police detective Axel Foley, who returns to Beverly Hills, California to track down a joint robbery/gun-running ring...
  
  
• Perfect
  Perfect (film)
  The soundtrack to Perfect was initially released in 1985 as a 12" vinyl record, and later re-released on CD.Side A#" Perfect" – 3:50#"I Sweat " – 3:54...
  
  
• Licence to Kill
  Licence to Kill
  Licence to Kill, released in 1989, is the sixteenth entry in the Eon Productions James Bond series and the first one not to use the title of an Ian Fleming novel. It marks Timothy Dalton's second and final performance in his brief tenure in the lead role of James Bond...
  
  
• The Bodyguard
  The Bodyguard
  The Bodyguard is a 1992 American romantic-thriller film starring Kevin Costner and Whitney Houston. Costner stars as a former Secret Service Agent turned bodyguard who is hired to protect Houston's character, a music star, from an unknown stalker. Lawrence Kasdan wrote the film in the 1970s,...
  
  
• Jason's Lyric
  Jason's Lyric
  Jason's Lyric is a 1994 romantic drama film, written by Bobby Smith, Jr., and directed by Doug McHenry. The film marks the directorial debut of McHenry, who co-produced the film with George Jackson...
  
  
• 9½ Weeks
  9½ Weeks
  ‎9½ Weeks is a 1986 erotic drama film directed by Adrian Lyne and starring Mickey Rourke and Kim Basinger. It is based on the novel of the same name by Elizabeth McNeill....
  
  
• Crooklyn
  Crooklyn
  Crooklyn is a 1994 semi-autobiographical film co-written and directed by Spike Lee. The film takes place in Brooklyn, New York and the neighborhood of Bedford-Stuyvesant during the summer of 1973. Its primary focus is a young girl, Troy , and her family...
  
  
• Free Willy
  Free Willy
  Free Willy is a 1993 family film directed by Simon Wincer, and released by Warner Bros. under its Family Entertainment label. The film stars Jason James Richter as a young boy who befriends an orca whale, named "Willy."...
  
  
• Mannequin
  Mannequin (1987 film)
  Mannequin is a 1987 romantic comedy film, starring Andrew McCarthy, Kim Cattrall, Meshach Taylor, James Spader, G. W. Bailey, and Estelle Getty...
  
  
• The Associate
  The Associate (soundtrack)
  The Associate is the original motion picture soundtrack of the self-titled movie from 1996, starring Whoopi Goldberg, the winner of a Grammy, seven Emmy Awards, two Golden Globes, a Tony, as well as an Oscar....
  
  
• Now and Again
  Now and Again
  Now and Again is an American television series that aired in the US from September 24, 1999 until May 5, 2000 on CBS. The story revolves around the United States government engineering the perfect human body for use in espionage, but not being able to yet perfect the brain...
  
  
• Innerspace
  Innerspace
  Innerspace is a 1987 science fiction comedy film directed by Joe Dante and produced by Michael Finnell. Steven Spielberg served as executive producer. The film was inspired by the classic 1966 science fiction film Fantastic Voyage. It stars Dennis Quaid, Martin Short, Meg Ryan, Robert Picardo and...
  
  
• Bright Lights, Big City
  Bright Lights, Big City (film)
  Bright Lights, Big City is a 1988 drama film starring Michael J. Fox, Kiefer Sutherland and Phoebe Cates, based on the novel of the same name by Jay McInerney. It was the last film directed by James Bridges before his death in 1993.-Plot:...
  
  

Other collaborations

• Phyllis Hyman
  Phyllis Hyman
  Phyllis Linda Hyman was an American soul singer and actress.-Early years:Phyllis Hyman was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and grew up in the St. Clair Village, the South Hills section of Pittsburgh...
  
  
• LaToya London
  LaToya London
  LaToya Renee London is an American R&B and soul singer and actress who was the fourth-place finalist on the third season of the reality/talent-search television series American Idol...
  
   ("Every Part of Me," "Learn to Breathe," and "State of My Heart")
• Stacy Lattisaw
  Stacy Lattisaw
  Stacy Lattisaw is an American R&B, dance, and gospel singer. Since the 1990s, she has exclusively sung gospel music, as a callback to her Christian roots.-Career:...
  
   "Let Me Be Your Angel" album, "With You" album, Sneakin' Out album, "Sixteen" album and "Perfect Combination" album.
• Al Green
  Al Green
  Albert Greene , better known as Al Green, is an American gospel and soul music singer. He reached the peak of his popularity in the 1970s, with hit singles such as "You Oughta Be With Me", "I'm Still In Love With You", "Love and Happiness", and "Let's Stay Together"...
  
   ("Your Heart's in Good Hands")
• Shanice Wilson ("I Hate to Be Lonely", "Love Is The Gift" [English theme song found only in Square Enix's video game The Bouncer
  The Bouncer
  is a beat 'em up for the Sony PlayStation 2 video game console. It was co-developed by Square and DreamFactory. The game features character designs by Tetsuya Nomura and music by Noriko Matsueda and Takahito Eguchi....
  
  ])
• Ray Charles
  Ray Charles
  Ray Charles Robinson , known by his shortened stage name Ray Charles, was an American musician. He was a pioneer in the genre of soul music during the 1950s by fusing rhythm and blues, gospel, and blues styles into his early recordings with Atlantic Records...
  
  
• Diana Ross
  Diana Ross
  Diana Ernestine Earle Ross is an American singer, record producer, and actress. Ross was lead singer of the Motown group The Supremes during the 1960s. After leaving the group in 1970, Ross began a solo career that included successful ventures into film and Broadway...
  
   ("If You're Not Gonna Love Me Right", "I Will Survive")
• Wild Orchid
  Wild Orchid (band)
  Wild Orchid was an American pop vocal group. -History:Wild Orchid began in 1990 when Renee Sandstrom and Stefanie Ridel met in their southern California high school's drama department. What brought Renee and Stefanie together was their shared love of poetry, music, and taste for fame. Soon after...
  
  
• Tevin Campbell
  Tevin Campbell
  Tevin Jermod Campbell is an American R&B singer-songwriter and actor. He scored a string of R&B chart hits as a teenager in the early to mid-1990s.-Music career:...
  
   (Tell Me What You Want Me To Do)
• Angela Bofill
  Angela Bofill
  Angela Bofill is an American R&B vocalist and songwriter.Bofill was born to a Cuban father and a Puerto Rican mother; one of the first Latina singers to find success in the R&B market.She performed with Ricardo Marrero & the Group and Dance Theater of Harlem chorus prior to her 1978 debut album,...
  
  
• MyTown ("Love Sent Angel" from Mytown
  Mytown (album)
  Mytown stylized as mytown is a 2000 epomynous album by Irish boy band mytown. This was Mytown debut and only album before break-up of the band in 2001, with two of its members forming in 2001 the pop band The Script.-Track listing:...
  
  )
• Steve Winwood
  Steve Winwood
  Stephen Lawrence "Steve" Winwood is an English international recording artist whose career spans nearly 50 years. He is a songwriter and a musician whose genres include soul music , R&B, rock, blues-rock, pop-rock, and jazz...
  
   ("Junction Seven" album)
• Phaze II
• Andy Vargas
  Andy Vargas
  Andy Vargas is an Australian football midfielder who plays for Green Gully. He is the brother of Melbourne Victory defender Rodrigo Vargas.-Club career:...
  
  
• Debelah Morgan
  Debelah Morgan
  Debelah Morgan is an American Singer and Songwriter. Morgan is best known for her hit single "Dance with Me," off of her third album, which reached #8 on the Billboard Hot 100...
  
  
• Jai
• Jermaine Stewart
  Jermaine Stewart
  William Jermaine Stewart was an American R&B singer best known for his Billboard hits "The Word Is Out" and "We Don't Have to Take Our Clothes Off" .-Early life and career:Born in Columbus, Ohio, to parents Ethel M...
  
   ("We Don't Have to Take Our Clothes Off")
• Natalie Cole
  Natalie Cole
  Natalie Maria Cole , is an American singer, songwriter and performer. The daughter of jazz legend Nat King Cole, Cole rode to musical success in the mid-1970s as an R&B artist with the hits "This Will Be ", "Inseparable" and "Our Love"...
  
   ("Good to Be Back")
• Clarence Clemons
  Clarence Clemons
  Clarence Anicholas Clemons, Jr. , also known as The Big Man, was an American musician and actor. From 1972 until his death, he was a prominent member of Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band, playing the tenor saxophone. He released several solo albums and in 1985, had a hit single with "You're a...
  
  
• Puff Johnson
  Puff Johnson
  Puff Johnson is an American singer-songwriter. She emerged on the music scene with the singles "Forever More", and "Over & Over" which appeared on the soundtrack of the film The First Wives Club, the single was a hit in Europe and Australia reaching the Top 20 in both continents...
  
  
• Eddie Murphy
  Eddie Murphy
  Edward Regan "Eddie" Murphy is an American stand-up comedian, actor, writer, singer, director, and musician....
  
   ("Put Your Mouth On Me")
• Carl Carlton
  Carl Carlton
  Carl Carlton is an American R&B, soul, and funk singer and songwriter, best known for his hits "Everlasting Love" and "She's a Bad Mama Jama ".-Career:...
  
   ("The Bad CC")
• Robert Fripp
  Robert Fripp
  Robert Fripp is an English guitarist, composer and record producer. He was ranked 42nd on Rolling Stone magazine's 2003 list of the "100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time" and #47 on Gibson.com’s "Top 50 Guitarists of All Time". Among rock guitarists, Fripp is a master of crosspicking, a technique...
  
   ("Exposure")
• Weather Report
  Weather Report
  Weather Report was an American jazz-rock band of the 1970s and early 1980s. The band was co-led by the Austrian-born keyboard player Joe Zawinul and the American saxophonist Wayne Shorter...
  
   ("Black Market")
• Michelle Gayle
  Michelle Gayle
  Michelle Patricia Gayle is a British recording artist, actress and author. Gayle had success as a Soul and R&B singer in the 1990s. She achieved seven Top 40 singles in the UK Singles Chart, her two biggest hits to date being "Sweetness" and "Do You Know"...
  
   ("Sweetness", "Freedom", "Happy Just To Be With You", "Baby Don't Go", "All Night Long")
• Amii Stewart
  Amii Stewart
  Amy 'Amii' Paulette Stewart is an American contemporary R&B/disco/dance-pop singer, dancer and actress most famous for her hit disco record "Knock on Wood". Stewart is the stepsister of actress-singer Miquel Brown and aunt to Brown's actress-singer daughter Sinitta.-Career:Amy Stewart was the...
  
  
• Allan Holdsworth
  Allan Holdsworth
  Allan Holdsworth is an English guitarist and composer. He has released twelve studio albums as a solo artist and played many different styles of music over a period of four decades, but first drew attention for his work in jazz fusion...
  
   ("Velvet Darkness" LP, CD)
• Jeff Beck
  Jeff Beck
  Geoffrey Arnold "Jeff" Beck is an English rock guitarist. He is one of three noted guitarists to have played with The Yardbirds...
  
  , album "Wired"
• Sister Sledge
  Sister Sledge
  Sister Sledge is an American musical group from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, formed in 1972 and consisting of four sisters: Kim Sledge Debbie Sledge , Joni Sledge , and Kathy Sledge . They are granddaughters of the former opera singer Viola Williams. The sisters used to perform under the name of "Mrs...
  
  , album "All American Girls"
• Sheena Easton
  Sheena Easton
  Sheena Easton is a Scottish recording artist. Easton became famous for being the focus of an episode in the British television programme The Big Time, which recorded her attempts to gain a record contract and her eventual signing with EMI Records.Easton rose to fame in the early 1980s with the pop...
  
  , ("So Far, So Good", from the Original Soundtrack of the movie "About Last Night", No Sound but a Heart LP)
• Tommy Bolin
  Tommy Bolin
  Thomas Richard "Tommy" Bolin was an American-born guitarist who played with Zephyr , The James Gang , and Deep Purple , in addition to doing solo work...
  
  , ("Marching Powder")
• Jaco Pastorius
  Jaco Pastorius
  John Francis Anthony Pastorius III , known as Jaco Pastorius, was an American jazz musician and composer widely acknowledged as a virtuoso electric bass player....
  
   ("Come On, Come Over")
• Pia Zadora
  Pia Zadora
  Pia Zadora is an American actress and singer. After working as a child actress on Broadway, in regional theater, and in the film Santa Claus Conquers the Martians , she came to national attention in 1981 when, following her starring role in the highly criticized Butterfly, she won a Golden Globe...
  
  ("Pia Z")
• Don Novello and Cat McLean ("Everyone Is Free To Wear Camouflage")

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