Rozalla
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Rozalla is a dance music
performer, born to a Zambia
n mother and a Zimbabwean father. "The queen of rave" is best known for her 1991 hit
"Everybody's Free (To Feel Good)
", which was remixed and re-issued several times.
, the country she had moved to from her birth country Zambia. Her singles charted well in the area and an English record producer took her to London
in 1988, placing her with the Band of Gypsies, a production duo consisting of Nigel Swanston and Tim Cox, who produced her most successful singles and her debut album.
Her first UK single Born To Luv Ya became a club hit in 1990, but Rozalla’s career took off when the dance anthem Everybody’s Free (To Feel Good), reached number 6 in the UK Singles Chart
in 1991. The single became a Top 10 hit in many European countries soon afterwards and reached the Billboard Top 40 the following year. It was later included on her dance-heavy debut album Everybody’s Free, which peaked at number 20 in the UK Albums Chart and went silver
. The album spawned two more sizeable hits in Faith (In The Power Of Love) and Are You Ready To Fly, reaching number 11 and 14 respectively in the UK Singles Chart.
After touring with Michael Jackson
, opening all of his performances on the European leg of his Dangerous tour, and several lesser charting singles Rozalla enjoyed UK Top 20/US Top 100 success in 1994 with her cover of I Love Music, the theme song to the film Carlito’s Way. Three more dance singles, including a cover of Soul Family Sensation’s underground hit I Don’t Even Know If I Should Call You Baby, also reached the upper regions of the UK Singles Chart, but none of these songs managed to come close to the international success of the singles from her debut album. Rozalla showed a different side of herself by experimenting with different styles of music on the attendant album Look No Further, but this change of direction was not appreciated by her dance following and the album sold poorly.
In 1996 a remix of Everybody’s Free (To Feel Good) reached the UK Top 40, but since then mainstream chart success has eluded her in that country. Her 1998 album Coming Home saw her reunite with the Band of Gypsies and spawned a stateside club hit with its lead single Don’t Go Lose It Baby. Without the support of a major label its release went by largely unnoticed, despite being well-received by her dance following.
Rozalla enjoyed a hit single in Germany in 2002 with the Aquagen remix of Everybody’s Free and in 2003 she entered the lower regions of the UK Singles Chart alongside Plastic Boy on the vocal trance single Live Another Life. This track was included on her first, and only, official compilation The Best Of Rozalla which was issued soon afterwards.
A Global Deejays
remix of Everybody’s Free (To Feel Good) become Rozalla’s first major hit single in many years, reaching number 7 in Australia in 2009 after it had been used as the theme song to So You Think You Can Dance. The remix became a minor hit in some European countries later that year, but by this time Rozalla was once again experimenting with other styles of music. She issued the jazz/soul album Brand New Version in 2009, adding her surname Miller to her recording guise. Some songs were played on various UK radio stations, including Radio 2 and Jazz FM, and Rozalla promoted the album by performing as the support act for Billy Ocean
on his UK tour of 2009.
In May 2009, Rozalla became a patron of the charity All Star Kids.
As of 2011 Rozalla is signed to Frontline Records.
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...
performer, born to a Zambia
Zambia
Zambia , officially the Republic of Zambia, is a landlocked country in Southern Africa. The neighbouring countries are the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the north, Tanzania to the north-east, Malawi to the east, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Botswana and Namibia to the south, and Angola to the west....
n mother and a Zimbabwean father. "The queen of rave" is best known for her 1991 hit
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...
"Everybody's Free (To Feel Good)
Everybody's Free (To Feel Good)
"Everybody's Free " is the second single by Zambian-born Zimbabwean singer Rozalla. It is her only hit to date.-Chart performances:...
", which was remixed and re-issued several times.
Career
Rozalla first came on the scene in the 1980s in ZimbabweZimbabwe
Zimbabwe is a landlocked country located in the southern part of the African continent, between the Zambezi and Limpopo rivers. It is bordered by South Africa to the south, Botswana to the southwest, Zambia and a tip of Namibia to the northwest and Mozambique to the east. Zimbabwe has three...
, the country she had moved to from her birth country Zambia. Her singles charted well in the area and an English record producer took her to London
London
London is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...
in 1988, placing her with the Band of Gypsies, a production duo consisting of Nigel Swanston and Tim Cox, who produced her most successful singles and her debut album.
Her first UK single Born To Luv Ya became a club hit in 1990, but Rozalla’s career took off when the dance anthem Everybody’s Free (To Feel Good), reached number 6 in the UK Singles Chart
UK Singles Chart
The UK Singles Chart is compiled by The Official Charts Company on behalf of the British record-industry. The full chart contains the top selling 200 singles in the United Kingdom based upon combined record sales and download numbers, though some media outlets only list the Top 40 or the Top 75 ...
in 1991. The single became a Top 10 hit in many European countries soon afterwards and reached the Billboard Top 40 the following year. It was later included on her dance-heavy debut album Everybody’s Free, which peaked at number 20 in the UK Albums Chart and went silver
Music recording sales certification
Music recording sales certification is a system of certifying that a music recording has shipped or sold a certain number of copies, where the threshold quantity varies by type and by nation or territory .Almost all countries follow variations of the RIAA certification categories,...
. The album spawned two more sizeable hits in Faith (In The Power Of Love) and Are You Ready To Fly, reaching number 11 and 14 respectively in the UK Singles Chart.
After touring with Michael Jackson
Michael Jackson
Michael Joseph Jackson was an American recording artist, entertainer, and businessman. Referred to as the King of Pop, or by his initials MJ, Jackson is recognized as the most successful entertainer of all time by Guinness World Records...
, opening all of his performances on the European leg of his Dangerous tour, and several lesser charting singles Rozalla enjoyed UK Top 20/US Top 100 success in 1994 with her cover of I Love Music, the theme song to the film Carlito’s Way. Three more dance singles, including a cover of Soul Family Sensation’s underground hit I Don’t Even Know If I Should Call You Baby, also reached the upper regions of the UK Singles Chart, but none of these songs managed to come close to the international success of the singles from her debut album. Rozalla showed a different side of herself by experimenting with different styles of music on the attendant album Look No Further, but this change of direction was not appreciated by her dance following and the album sold poorly.
In 1996 a remix of Everybody’s Free (To Feel Good) reached the UK Top 40, but since then mainstream chart success has eluded her in that country. Her 1998 album Coming Home saw her reunite with the Band of Gypsies and spawned a stateside club hit with its lead single Don’t Go Lose It Baby. Without the support of a major label its release went by largely unnoticed, despite being well-received by her dance following.
Rozalla enjoyed a hit single in Germany in 2002 with the Aquagen remix of Everybody’s Free and in 2003 she entered the lower regions of the UK Singles Chart alongside Plastic Boy on the vocal trance single Live Another Life. This track was included on her first, and only, official compilation The Best Of Rozalla which was issued soon afterwards.
A Global Deejays
Global Deejays
Global Deejays, Global Playboyz or Ravers on Dope are an Austrian pumping tech house trio composed of DJ Taylor , DJ Mikkel and FLOw...
remix of Everybody’s Free (To Feel Good) become Rozalla’s first major hit single in many years, reaching number 7 in Australia in 2009 after it had been used as the theme song to So You Think You Can Dance. The remix became a minor hit in some European countries later that year, but by this time Rozalla was once again experimenting with other styles of music. She issued the jazz/soul album Brand New Version in 2009, adding her surname Miller to her recording guise. Some songs were played on various UK radio stations, including Radio 2 and Jazz FM, and Rozalla promoted the album by performing as the support act for Billy Ocean
Billy Ocean
Billy Ocean is a Trinidad-born English Grammy Award winning popular music performer who had a string of rhythm and blues international pop hits in the 1970s and 1980s. He was the most popular British-based R&B singer / songwriter of the early to mid-1980s...
on his UK tour of 2009.
In May 2009, Rozalla became a patron of the charity All Star Kids.
As of 2011 Rozalla is signed to Frontline Records.
Albums
- 1989 The perfect kiss
- 1992 Everybody's Free
- 1993 Everybody's Free Style 1993 Remixed To Perfection
- 1995 Look No Further
- 1998 Coming Home
- 2003 Best Of
- 2004 Everybody's Free (Special Edition with DVDDVDA DVD is an optical disc storage media format, invented and developed by Philips, Sony, Toshiba, and Panasonic in 1995. DVDs offer higher storage capacity than Compact Discs while having the same dimensions....
) - 2009 Brand New Version
Singles
| Title | UK UK Singles Chart The UK Singles Chart is compiled by The Official Charts Company on behalf of the British record-industry. The full chart contains the top selling 200 singles in the United Kingdom based upon combined record sales and download numbers, though some media outlets only list the Top 40 or the Top 75 ... |
US Billboard Hot 100 The Billboard Hot 100 is the United States music industry standard singles popularity chart issued weekly by Billboard magazine. Chart rankings are based on radio play and sales; the tracking-week for sales begins on Monday and ends on Sunday, while the radio play tracking-week runs from Wednesday... |
US United States The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district... Dance |
GER Media Control Charts The official music charts in Germany are gathered and published by the company Media Control GfK International on behalf of Bundesverband Musikindustrie... |
Year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| "Born To Luv Ya" | - | - | - | - | 1990 |
| "Faith (In the Power of Love) Faith (In the Power of Love) "Faith " is a single by Zambian-born singer Rozalla.-Chart information:"Faith " first charted in the United Kingdom in April 1991, reaching #65. The single was, however, re-released in November of that year after the success of her previous single, "Everybody's Free "... " |
65 | - | - | - | 1991 |
| "Everybody's Free (To Feel Good) Everybody's Free (To Feel Good) "Everybody's Free " is the second single by Zambian-born Zimbabwean singer Rozalla. It is her only hit to date.-Chart performances:... " |
6 | 37 | 1 | 6 | 1991 |
| "Faith (In the Power of Love) Faith (In the Power of Love) "Faith " is a single by Zambian-born singer Rozalla.-Chart information:"Faith " first charted in the United Kingdom in April 1991, reaching #65. The single was, however, re-released in November of that year after the success of her previous single, "Everybody's Free "... " (reissue) |
11 | - | 4 | - | 1991 |
| "Are You Ready to Fly Are You Ready to Fly "Are You Ready to Fly" is a 1992 single by Zambian born singer Rozalla, from her album Everybody's Free. The song achieved a certain success in many countries, including U.S... " |
14 | - | 1 | 25 | 1992 |
| "Love Breakdown" | 65 | - | - | - | 1992 |
| "In 4 Choons Later" | 50 | - | - | - | 1992 |
| "Don't Play With Me" | 50 | - | - | - | 1993 |
| "I Love Music" | 18 | 76 | 1 | 69 | 1994 |
| "This Time I Found Love" | 33 | - | - | - | 1994 |
| "You Never Love The Same Way Twice" | 16 | - | 11 | 54 | 1994 |
| "Baby" | 26 | - | - | - | 1995 |
| "Losing My Religion" | - | - | - | - | 1995 |
| "Coming Home" | - | - | - | - | 1997 |
| "Don't Go Lose It Baby" | - | - | 23 | - | 1998 |
| "Friday Night" (with Phat 'N' Phunky) | - | - | - | - | 1998 |
| "Live Another Life" (with Plastic Boy Mike Dierickx Mike Dierickx , formerly known as Dirk Dierickx, and most commonly recognized under the aliases M.I.K.E., Push or Plastic Boy, is a Belgian DJ. Best known for the song "Universal Nation", he has also released other singles including "The Legacy" and "Strange World"... ) |
55 | - | - | - | 2003 |
Remix Singles
| Title | UK UK Singles Chart The UK Singles Chart is compiled by The Official Charts Company on behalf of the British record-industry. The full chart contains the top selling 200 singles in the United Kingdom based upon combined record sales and download numbers, though some media outlets only list the Top 40 or the Top 75 ... |
US United States The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district... Dance |
GER Media Control Charts The official music charts in Germany are gathered and published by the company Media Control GfK International on behalf of Bundesverband Musikindustrie... |
Year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| "Everybody's Free" | 30 | 14 | - | 1996 |
| "Everybody's Free" (with Richard Humpty Vission) | - | 18 | - | 2000 |
| "Everybody's Free" (with Aquagen Aquagen Aquagen is a German dance music group, consisting of Gino Montesano and Olaf Dieckmann. They initially achieved success with their single "Ihr Seid So Leise" , which sold more than 250,000 copies in Germany.-Singles:... ) |
- | - | 22 | 2002 |
| "Everybody's Free" (with DNF) | - | - | - | 2005 |
| "You Never Love The Same Way Twice" | - | - | - | 2005 |
| "Everybody's Free" (with Global Deejays Global Deejays Global Deejays, Global Playboyz or Ravers on Dope are an Austrian pumping tech house trio composed of DJ Taylor , DJ Mikkel and FLOw... ) |
- | - | 52 | 2009 |
See also
- List of number-one dance hits (United States)
- List of artists who reached number one on the US Dance chart