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What Aretha Franklin is to soul music, Martha Wash is to dance music. She was innate inside San Francisco California on December 28 1953.

Do began her music career as a back-higher singer for Sylvester. By using fellow background singer Izora Rhodes she was half of '''Two All O' Fun''', world health organization would late become renamed The Weather Girls. Intrinsically, it were responsible releasing "It's Raining Men," one of the classic songs of the late-disco era. Whenever a Atmospheric condition Girls disbanded, Do continued to lend her vocals to various dance & house music tracks. Many of the two became massive popular, R&B and dance hits: Black Box's "Everybody Everybody," "I Don't Know Anybody Else" and "Strike It Up", as well as lesser-knowns such as "Fantasy", "Open Your Eyes" and "Hold On" and Seduction's "You're My One and Only (True Love)". C&C Music Factory's "Gonna Make You Sweat (Everybody Dance Now)," hit #1 on the Hot 100 in 1991.

Do's mighty vocals were lip synced in the videos to the above songs by Hundred&C's Zelma Davis and Black Box's Katrine Quinol, and with the Milli Vanilli scandal still fresh in everyone's minds, Wash, also perturbed by the fact that her image had been labeled "unmarketable" because of her physical size, successfully sued to receive proper credit (and royalties) as the vocalist on all of the music. Do's court efforts spurred legislatiwithin making vocal credits required on cds & music videos, & as well awarded her the recording locate RCA which led to her debut, self-titled solo album in 1993.

Within 1992 she began charting songs on the Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart as a solo artist, hitting #1 5 days: 1992 "Carry On" 1993 "Give It To You" 1996 "Keep On Jumpin'" (duet using Jocelyn Brown) 1997 "Somethin' Goin' On" (Todd Terry presents Martha Wash & Jocelyn Dark brown) 1998 "Catch the Light"

Universally a vast star inside the gay community, she also remade her classic Weather condition Girls hit, this period calling it "It's Raining Men... the Sequel" around 1997 as a duet with RuPaul.

Do continues to record R&B and house music into the 21st century, such as her first new single in over 6 years, "You Lift Me Up" from her own label, Purple Rose Records - 2005.

The Queen Of Clubland
Official Site. Contains news, biography, discography, photographs, concert schedule, articles, and links.

The Celebrity Cafe: Martha Wash
Interview.


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