Sa-Fire
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Wilma Cosmé better known by her stage name
SaFire, is an American
singer. While she was one of the few freestyle artist to have major pop
-chart
success, she is considered an important part of Latin freestyle
. Relatively known to the mainstream media, SaFire continues to perform all over the world and do many venues.
She has been featured in various magazines, such as Us Magazine
, Billboard
, Vogue
, and Elle
and was the first Latina to grace the cover of Spin Magazine. She also appeared on television programs such as American Bandstand
, Pat Sajak Show, Joan Rivers Show, Latin Connection, MTV International
, Party Machine, PM Magazine
, and Entertainment Tonight
. Sa-Fire performed throughout the United States, Japan
, Europe
, the Caribbean
, and South America
. She won numerous awards, including six New York Music Awards, three Desi Awards, and an ASCAP award for writing "Thinking of You."
, New York
, and began her singing career as a session
vocalist.
SaFire was discovered at an audition for a Record label. Her debut single
, "Don't Break My Heart" (1986), remains well regarded by freestyle-music and dance-music
fans
. "Let Me be the One" (1987), her follow-up single, proved to be a bigger hit
than her debut. "Boy, I've Been Told," the first single off of her self-titled debut album
, which was released by Mercury
/PolyGram Records, crossed over to pop radio
and reached #48 on the Billboard Hot 100
chart. The song
was the #1 selling single in New York
for twelve weeks, and the #1 song on the old Hot 103
radio station
in 1988. The song topped the charts in all of the major radio stations throughout the world.
SaFire scored her most commercially successful hit with the ballad
"Thinking of You" in 1989, which peaked at #4 on the Adult Contemporary chart and at #12 on the Billboard Hot 100. The song was translated into Spanish
(as "El Recuerdo de Ti") by the singer–actor
Ruben Blades
. In 1989, SaFire and "Thinking of You" were featured in a public service announcement
commercial
for AIDS
awareness. The commercial was seen on Spanish-language television networks across the United States and Latin America
. She also sang the song on an episode of the 1989 revival of The Mickey Mouse Club.
Her debut self-titled album peaked at #84 on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums
and at #79 on the Billboard Hot 200. Other singles of hers that charted on the Billboard Hot 100 include "Gonna Make It" and "Made Up My Mind."
In 1989, she covered
"I Will Survive
" for the soundtrack
of the film
She-Devil, which incorporated a house
and hip-hop
element into the 1970s disco
hit.
/PolyGram Records labelmates Vanessa L. Williams
and Brian McKnight
, with her rendition of "Joy to the World
."
SaFire teamed up with friend and former teen heartthrob Tommy Page
to form the dance group La Casa Fronted by Allan Edwards Tibbitt & Dacia Palmer. Together she and Page wrote and produced three songs that appeared on the New Faces compilation album
released by Sire
/Warner Bros. Records
in 1993. This was not the first time SaFire and Page collaborated on a project. In 1990, they both co-wrote, produced, and sang the duet
"Don't Give up on Love." The song was featured on Page's 1990 album, Paintings in my Mind.
Although Latin freestyle music waned in mainstream popularity in the early 1990s, she counteracted this by releasing "Taste the Bass" as a single from her second album, I Wasn't Born Yesterday. The song peaked at #6 on the Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart. The lead single, "Made up My Mind," peaked at #9 on the Hot Dance Music/Club Play, but stalled at #80 on the Billboard Hot 100.
During the mid-1990s, after an extensive hiatus, SaFire returned with a Spanish-language album, titled Atrevida. However, this first attempt with a salsa
album was not promoted by the label and no one got to hear this great gem. It was poorly marketed by Sony Latino. Safire appeared on many shows like Joan Rivers, Pat Sajak, Club MTV, Party machine, Entertainment Tonight, tmz, Access Hollywood, etc., and she was the only Latina to appear on the cover of Spin magazine. She also appeared in Vogue, Us magazine, DJ time, New York Time, Elle magazine, El diaro el volcero, The Daily News and more... She won six New York music awards, one pop ASCAP award for "Thinking of You" for the most played song that year, and Three Desi awards as well. She is the Best freestyle artist of that era.
hit "Can You Stand the Rain," featuring Cynthia. The album's second single, "Don't Break My Heart 2002," peaked at #3 on the Hot Dance Music/Club Play.
SaFire was given a lifetime achievement award at radio station WKTU
's Freestyle free 4 all concert
in Atlantic City, New Jersey
, in 2007.
Her most recent single, "Exotique," was released online on May 6, 2009. Also that year, SaFire’s self-titled debut album, originally released in 1988, was made available as a download on iTunes. SaFire's second album, I Wasn't Born Yesterday was re-released on November 3, 2009, as a download.
Eighteen years after its initial release, the album track "I Never Heard" was posthumously covered by Michael Jackson
under the title "This is It
." The song was co-written by Jackson and Paul Anka
in 1983 for an Anka album that was never completed, and it was later offered to SaFire. At some point, Jackson made a demo tape of the song with the same lyrics, and that tape was remix
ed after his death and released in October 2009 as his first posthumous single.
In 2010, SaFire announced on urbanlatinoradio.com that she is currently working on a new Spanish-language pop album. New music set to be release sometime 2011.
Stage name
A stage name, also called a showbiz name or screen name, is a pseudonym used by performers and entertainers such as actors, wrestlers, comedians, and musicians.-Motivation to use a stage name:...
SaFire, is an American
United States
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singer. While she was one of the few freestyle artist to have major pop
Pop music
Pop music is usually understood to be commercially recorded music, often oriented toward a youth market, usually consisting of relatively short, simple songs utilizing technological innovations to produce new variations on existing themes.- Definitions :David Hatch and Stephen Millward define pop...
-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....
success, she is considered an important part of Latin freestyle
Freestyle music
Freestyle or Latin freestyle, sometimes referred to as Latin hip hop, is a form of electronic dance music that emerged in the early 1980s. Mostly popular during the mid 80s to the early 90s...
. Relatively known to the mainstream media, SaFire continues to perform all over the world and do many venues.
She has been featured in various magazines, such as Us Magazine
Us Weekly
Us Weekly is a celebrity gossip magazine, founded in 1977 by The New York Times Company, who sold it in 1980. It was acquired by Wenner Media in 1986. The publication covers topics ranging from celebrity relationships to the latest trends in fashion, beauty, and entertainment...
, Billboard
Billboard (magazine)
Billboard is a weekly American magazine devoted to the music industry, and is one of the oldest trade magazines in the world. It maintains several internationally recognized music charts that track the most popular songs and albums in various categories on a weekly basis...
, Vogue
Vogue (magazine)
Vogue is a fashion and lifestyle magazine that is published monthly in 18 national and one regional edition by Condé Nast.-History:In 1892 Arthur Turnure founded Vogue as a weekly publication in the United States. When he died in 1909, Condé Montrose Nast picked up the magazine and slowly began...
, and Elle
Elle (magazine)
Elle is a worldwide magazine of French origin that focuses on women's fashion, beauty, health, and entertainment. Elle is also the world's largest fashion magazine. It was founded by Pierre Lazareff and his wife Hélène Gordon in 1945. The title, in French, means "she".-History:Elle was founded in...
and was the first Latina to grace the cover of Spin Magazine. She also appeared on television programs such as American Bandstand
American Bandstand
American Bandstand is an American music-performance show that aired in various versions from 1952 to 1989 and was hosted from 1956 until its final season by Dick Clark, who also served as producer...
, Pat Sajak Show, Joan Rivers Show, Latin Connection, MTV International
MTV International
MTV International a.k.a. and MTVI was the internet-based international version of MTV. The channel was a subsidiary of MTV Networks...
, Party Machine, PM Magazine
PM Magazine
PM/Evening Magazine was a television series with a news and entertainment format. It was syndicated to stations throughout the United States...
, and Entertainment Tonight
Entertainment Tonight
Entertainment Tonight is a daily tabloid television entertainment television news show that is syndicated by CBS Television Distribution throughout the United States, Canada and in many countries around the world. Linda Bell Blue is currently the program's executive producer...
. Sa-Fire performed throughout the United States, Japan
Japan
Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...
, Europe
Europe
Europe is, by convention, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally 'divided' from Asia to its east by the watershed divides of the Ural and Caucasus Mountains, the Ural River, the Caspian and Black Seas, and the waterways connecting...
, the Caribbean
Caribbean
The Caribbean is a crescent-shaped group of islands more than 2,000 miles long separating the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea, to the west and south, from the Atlantic Ocean, to the east and north...
, and South America
South America
South America is a continent situated in the Western Hemisphere, mostly in the Southern Hemisphere, with a relatively small portion in the Northern Hemisphere. The continent is also considered a subcontinent of the Americas. It is bordered on the west by the Pacific Ocean and on the north and east...
. She won numerous awards, including six New York Music Awards, three Desi Awards, and an ASCAP award for writing "Thinking of You."
The 1980s
Safire was born in San Juan Puerto Rico and grew up in East HarlemSpanish Harlem
East Harlem, also known as Spanish Harlem and El Barrio, is a section of Harlem in the northeastern part of the New York City borough of Manhattan. East Harlem is one of the largest predominantly Latino communities in New York City. It includes the area formerly known as Italian Harlem, in which...
, New York
New York
New York is a state in the Northeastern region of the United States. It is the nation's third most populous state. New York is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south, and by Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont to the east...
, and began her singing career as a session
Session musician
Session musicians are instrumental and vocal performers, musicians, who are available to work with others at live performances or recording sessions. Usually such musicians are not permanent members of a musical ensemble and often do not achieve fame in their own right as soloists or bandleaders...
vocalist.
SaFire was discovered at an audition for a Record label. Her debut single
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...
, "Don't Break My Heart" (1986), remains well regarded by freestyle-music and 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...
fans
Fan (person)
A Fan, sometimes also called aficionado or supporter, is a person with a liking and enthusiasm for something, such as a band or a sports team. Fans of a particular thing or person constitute its fanbase or fandom...
. "Let Me be the One" (1987), her follow-up single, proved to be a bigger 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...
than her debut. "Boy, I've Been Told," the first single off of her self-titled debut album
Album
An album is a collection of recordings, released as a single package on gramophone record, cassette, compact disc, or via digital distribution. The word derives from the Latin word for list .Vinyl LP records have two sides, each comprising one half of the album...
, which was released by Mercury
Mercury Records
Mercury Records is a record label operating as a standalone company in the UK and as part of the Island Def Jam Motown Music Group in the US; both are subsidiaries of Universal Music Group. There is also a Mercury Records in Australia, which is a local artist and repertoire division of Universal...
/PolyGram Records, crossed over to pop radio
Radio
Radio is the transmission of signals through free space by modulation of electromagnetic waves with frequencies below those of visible light. Electromagnetic radiation travels by means of oscillating electromagnetic fields that pass through the air and the vacuum of space...
and reached #48 on the Billboard Hot 100
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...
chart. The song
Song
In music, a song is a composition for voice or voices, performed by singing.A song may be accompanied by musical instruments, or it may be unaccompanied, as in the case of a cappella songs...
was the #1 selling single in New York
New York City
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for twelve weeks, and the #1 song on the old Hot 103
Hot 97
Hot 97 could refer to:* KBCQ-FM, a radio station licensed to Roswell, New Mexico* WQHT, a radio station licensed to New York, New York...
radio station
Radio station
Radio broadcasting is a one-way wireless transmission over radio waves intended to reach a wide audience. Stations can be linked in radio networks to broadcast a common radio format, either in broadcast syndication or simulcast or both...
in 1988. The song topped the charts in all of the major radio stations throughout the world.
SaFire scored her most commercially successful hit with the ballad
Ballad
A ballad is a form of verse, often a narrative set to music. Ballads were particularly characteristic of British and Irish popular poetry and song from the later medieval period until the 19th century and used extensively across Europe and later the Americas, Australia and North Africa. Many...
"Thinking of You" in 1989, which peaked at #4 on the Adult Contemporary chart and at #12 on the Billboard Hot 100. The song was translated into Spanish
Spanish language
Spanish , also known as Castilian , is a Romance language in the Ibero-Romance group that evolved from several languages and dialects in central-northern Iberia around the 9th century and gradually spread with the expansion of the Kingdom of Castile into central and southern Iberia during the...
(as "El Recuerdo de Ti") by the singer–actor
Actor
An actor is a person who acts in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio in that capacity...
Ruben Blades
Rubén Blades
Rubén Blades Bellido de Luna is a Panamanian salsa singer, songwriter, lawyer, actor, Latin jazz musician, and politician, performing musically most often in the Afro-Cuban and Latin jazz genres...
. In 1989, SaFire and "Thinking of You" were featured in a public service announcement
Public service announcement
A public service announcement or public service ad is a type of advertisement featured on television, radio, print or other media...
commercial
Advertising
Advertising is a form of communication used to persuade an audience to take some action with respect to products, ideas, or services. Most commonly, the desired result is to drive consumer behavior with respect to a commercial offering, although political and ideological advertising is also common...
for AIDS
AIDS
Acquired immune deficiency syndrome or acquired immunodeficiency syndrome is a disease of the human immune system caused by the human immunodeficiency virus...
awareness. The commercial was seen on Spanish-language television networks across the United States and Latin America
Latin America
Latin America is a region of the Americas where Romance languages – particularly Spanish and Portuguese, and variably French – are primarily spoken. Latin America has an area of approximately 21,069,500 km² , almost 3.9% of the Earth's surface or 14.1% of its land surface area...
. She also sang the song on an episode of the 1989 revival of The Mickey Mouse Club.
Her debut self-titled album peaked at #84 on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums
Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums
Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums is a chart published by Billboard magazine that ranks R&B and hip hop albums based on sales compiled by Nielsen SoundScan. The name of the chart was changed from Top R&B Albums in 1999...
and at #79 on the Billboard Hot 200. Other singles of hers that charted on the Billboard Hot 100 include "Gonna Make It" and "Made Up My Mind."
In 1989, she covered
Cover version
In popular music, a cover version or cover song, or simply cover, is a new performance or recording of a contemporary or previously recorded, commercially released song or popular song...
"I Will Survive
I Will Survive
"I Will Survive" is a song first performed by American singer Gloria Gaynor, released in October 1978. It was written by Freddie Perren and Dino Fekaris...
" for the soundtrack
Soundtrack
A soundtrack can be recorded music accompanying and synchronized to the images of a motion picture, book, television program or video game; a commercially released soundtrack album of music as featured in the soundtrack of a film or TV show; or the physical area of a film that contains the...
of the film
Film
A film, also called a movie or motion picture, is a series of still or moving images. It is produced by recording photographic images with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or visual effects...
She-Devil, which incorporated a house
House music
House music is a genre of electronic dance music that originated in Chicago, Illinois, United States in the early 1980s. It was initially popularized in mid-1980s discothèques catering to the African-American, Latino American, and gay communities; first in Chicago circa 1984, then in other...
and hip-hop
Hip hop music
Hip hop music, also called hip-hop, rap music or hip-hop music, is a musical genre consisting of a stylized rhythmic music that commonly accompanies rapping, a rhythmic and rhyming speech that is chanted...
element into the 1970s disco
Disco
Disco is a genre of dance music. Disco acts charted high during the mid-1970s, and the genre's popularity peaked during the late 1970s. It had its roots in clubs that catered to African American, gay, psychedelic, and other communities in New York City and Philadelphia during the late 1960s and...
hit.
The 1990s
In 1991, she was featured in A Christmas Message with MercuryMercury Records
Mercury Records is a record label operating as a standalone company in the UK and as part of the Island Def Jam Motown Music Group in the US; both are subsidiaries of Universal Music Group. There is also a Mercury Records in Australia, which is a local artist and repertoire division of Universal...
/PolyGram Records labelmates Vanessa L. Williams
Vanessa L. Williams
Vanessa Lynn Williams is an American pop-R&B recording artist, producer, dancer, model, actress and showgirl. In 1983, she became the first woman of African-American descent to be crowned Miss America, but a scandal generated by her having posed for nude photographs published in Penthouse magazine...
and Brian McKnight
Brian McKnight
Brian McKnight is an American singer-songwriter, arranger, producer, and R&B/Pop musician. He is a multi-instrumentalist who plays nine instruments: piano, guitar, bass guitar, drums, percussions, trombone, tuba, flugelhorn and trumpet....
, with her rendition of "Joy to the World
Joy to the World
"Joy to the World" is a Christian Christmas carol.The words are by English hymn writer Isaac Watts, based on Psalm 98 in the Bible. The song was first published in 1719 in Watts' collection; The Psalms of David: Imitated in the language of the New Testament, and applied to the Christian state and...
."
SaFire teamed up with friend and former teen heartthrob Tommy Page
Tommy Page
Tommy Page is an American singer, best known for his 1990 hit single, "I'll Be Your Everything."-Career:...
to form the dance group La Casa Fronted by Allan Edwards Tibbitt & Dacia Palmer. Together she and Page wrote and produced three songs that appeared on the New Faces compilation album
Compilation album
A compilation album is an album featuring tracks from one or more performers, often culled from a variety of sources The tracks are usually collected according to a common characteristic, such as popularity, genre, source or subject matter...
released by Sire
Sire Records
Sire Records is an American record label, owned by Warner Music Group and distributed through Warner Bros. Records.-Beginnings:The label was founded in 1966 as Sire Productions by Seymour Stein and Richard Gottehrer, each investing ten thousand dollars into the new company. Its early releases as a...
/Warner Bros. Records
Warner Bros. Records
Warner Bros. Records Inc. is an American record label. It was the foundation label of the present-day Warner Music Group, and now operates as a wholly owned subsidiary of that corporation. It maintains a close relationship with its former parent, Warner Bros. Pictures, although the two companies...
in 1993. This was not the first time SaFire and Page collaborated on a project. In 1990, they both co-wrote, produced, and sang the duet
Duet (music)
A duet is a musical composition for two performers. In classical music, the term is most often used for a composition for two singers or pianists; with other instruments, the word duo is also often used. A piece performed by two pianists performing together on the same piano is referred to as...
"Don't Give up on Love." The song was featured on Page's 1990 album, Paintings in my Mind.
Although Latin freestyle music waned in mainstream popularity in the early 1990s, she counteracted this by releasing "Taste the Bass" as a single from her second album, I Wasn't Born Yesterday. The song peaked at #6 on the Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart. The lead single, "Made up My Mind," peaked at #9 on the Hot Dance Music/Club Play, but stalled at #80 on the Billboard Hot 100.
During the mid-1990s, after an extensive hiatus, SaFire returned with a Spanish-language album, titled Atrevida. However, this first attempt with a salsa
Salsa music
Salsa music is a genre of music, generally defined as a modern style of playing Cuban Son, Son Montuno, and Guaracha with touches from other genres of music...
album was not promoted by the label and no one got to hear this great gem. It was poorly marketed by Sony Latino. Safire appeared on many shows like Joan Rivers, Pat Sajak, Club MTV, Party machine, Entertainment Tonight, tmz, Access Hollywood, etc., and she was the only Latina to appear on the cover of Spin magazine. She also appeared in Vogue, Us magazine, DJ time, New York Time, Elle magazine, El diaro el volcero, The Daily News and more... She won six New York music awards, one pop ASCAP award for "Thinking of You" for the most played song that year, and Three Desi awards as well. She is the Best freestyle artist of that era.
The 2000s
After another hiatus, SaFire announced the release of a new album, Bringing Back the Groove, in 2001. The album featured a cover of the New EditionNew Edition
New Edition is an R&B group formed in Boston in 1978. The group reached its height of popularity during the 1980s. They were the progenitors of the boy band movement of the 1980s and 1990s and led the way for groups like New Kids on the Block, Boyz II Men, Backstreet Boys and 'N Sync...
hit "Can You Stand the Rain," featuring Cynthia. The album's second single, "Don't Break My Heart 2002," peaked at #3 on the Hot Dance Music/Club Play.
SaFire was given a lifetime achievement award at radio station WKTU
WKTU
WKTU is a radio station based in New York City that plays an upbeat, gold-based CHR format. The station's broadcast transmitter is located on the top of the Empire State Building and its city of license is Lake Success, New York, with offices formerly in the "Newport" section of Jersey City, New...
's Freestyle free 4 all concert
Concert
A concert is a live performance before an audience. The performance may be by a single musician, sometimes then called a recital, or by a musical ensemble, such as an orchestra, a choir, or a musical band...
in Atlantic City, New Jersey
New Jersey
New Jersey is a state in the Northeastern and Middle Atlantic regions of the United States. , its population was 8,791,894. It is bordered on the north and east by the state of New York, on the southeast and south by the Atlantic Ocean, on the west by Pennsylvania and on the southwest by Delaware...
, in 2007.
Her most recent single, "Exotique," was released online on May 6, 2009. Also that year, SaFire’s self-titled debut album, originally released in 1988, was made available as a download on iTunes. SaFire's second album, I Wasn't Born Yesterday was re-released on November 3, 2009, as a download.
Eighteen years after its initial release, the album track "I Never Heard" was posthumously covered by 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...
under the title "This is It
This Is It (Michael Jackson song)
"This Is It" is a song co-written by American pop star and musician Michael Jackson and singer-songwriter Paul Anka. The song was recorded by the former and featured as a track on the album, This Is It , which accompanies the 2009 concert documentary Michael Jackson's This Is It. This was premiered...
." The song was co-written by Jackson and Paul Anka
Paul Anka
Paul Albert Anka, is a Canadian singer, songwriter, and actor.Anka first became famous as a teen idol in the late 1950s and 1960s with hit songs like "Diana'", "Lonely Boy", and "Put Your Head on My Shoulder"...
in 1983 for an Anka album that was never completed, and it was later offered to SaFire. At some point, Jackson made a demo tape of the song with the same lyrics, and that tape was remix
Remix
A remix is an alternative version of a recorded song, made from an original version. This term is also used for any alterations of media other than song ....
ed after his death and released in October 2009 as his first posthumous single.
In 2010, SaFire announced on urbanlatinoradio.com that she is currently working on a new Spanish-language pop album. New music set to be release sometime 2011.
Albums
- 1988: Sa-FireSa-Fire (album)US CD EditionJapan CD Edition-Charts:Album - Billboard Singles - Billboard...
(Cutting/Mercury/PolyGram Records) - 1991: I Wasn't Born YesterdayI Wasn't Born YesterdayI Wasn't Born Yesterday is the 2nd album by singer Sa-Fire. It was released in 1991. The song "I Never Heard" is the same Michael Jackson song which Sony released on October 12, 2009 as the single "This Is It". The song was written in 1983 by Jackson/Paul Anka.-Track listing:-Charts:Singles -...
(Mercury/PolyGram Records) - 1996: Atrevida (Sony Discos)
- 2001: Bringing Back the Groove (Globestar)
Singles
- 1986 "Don't Break My Heart" - Hot Dance Music/Maxi-Singles Sales #31
- 1987 "Let Me Be the One" - Hot Dance Music/Maxi-Singles Sales #26
- 1988 "Boy, I've Been ToldBoy, I've Been Told"Boy, I've Been Told" is the first single released by freestyle singer Sa-Fire from her 1988 eponymous debut.-Track listing:US 12" Single-Charts:...
" - Hot Dance Music/Club Play #13 - 1988 "Boy, I've Been Told" - Hot Dance Music/Maxi-Singles Sales #3
- 1988 "Boy, I've Been Told" - The Billboard Hot 100 #48
- 1989 "Love Is on Her MindLove Is on Her Mind"Love Is on Her Mind" is the second single released by freestyle singer Sa-Fire from her 1988 eponymous debut.-Track listing:-Charts:...
" - Hot Dance Music/Club Play #29 - 1989 "Love Is on Her Mind" - Hot Dance Music/Maxi-Singles Sales #18
- 1989 "Thinking of YouThinking of You (Sa-Fire song)"Thinking of You" is the third single released by freestyle singer Sa-Fire from her 1988 eponymous debut. The song was a tribute to her uncle who died from AIDS in 1986....
" - Adult Contemporary #4 - 1989 "Thinking of You" - Hot Dance Music/Maxi-Singles Sales #26
- 1989 "Thinking of You" - The Billboard Hot 100 #12
- 1989 "Gonna Make ItGonna Make It"Gonna Make It" is the fourth single released by freestyle singer Sa-Fire from her 1988 eponymous debut.-Track listing:US 12" Single-Charts:...
" - Hot Dance Music/Club Play #31 - 1989 "Gonna Make It" - Hot Dance Music/Maxi-Singles Sales #20
- 1989 "Gonna Make It" - The Billboard Hot 100 #71
- 1990 "I Will Survive" - The Billboard Hot 100 #53
- 1989 "I Will Survive" - Hot Dance Music/Club Play #30
- 1989 "I Will Survive" - Hot Dance Music/Maxi-Singles Sales #37
- 1991 "Made up My Mind" - Hot Dance Music/Club Play #36
- 1991 "Made up My Mind" - Hot Dance Music/Maxi-Singles Sales #7
- 1991 "Made up My Mind" - The Billboard Hot 100 #82
- 1991 "Made up My Mind" - Hot 100 Airplay #60
- 1991 "Taste the Bass" - Hot Dance Music/Club Play #6
- 1991 "Taste the Bass" - Hot Dance Music/Maxi-Singles Sales #4
- 2001 "Can You Stand the Rain"
- 2009 "Exotique" - Masterbeat.com Best Seller List #1