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Biography
BLP sources|date=December 2010Infobox musical artist|name = Stacy Lattisaw|image =|background = solo_singer|birth_date = birth date and age|1966|11|25|origin = Washington, D.C , United States |genre = Dance music|Dance , Soul music|Soul , Disco |occupation = Singer |* http://www.mcgillismusic.com/Stacy%20Lattisaw.htm Official Web Site Stacy Lattisaw Web Page|years_active = 1979–present|label = Cotillion Records (1979& ndash;1985) Motown (1986& ndash;1989)| associated_acts = The Jacksons Johnny Gill Narada Michael Walden Stacy Lattisaw (born November 25, 1966) is an United States|American Rhythm and blues|R& B , dance music|dance , and gospel music|gospel singer. Since the 1990s, she has exclusively sung gospel music, as a callback to her Christian roots.
Career
When she was a adolescence|teenager in the early 1980s, Lattisaw had a string of Top 40 R& B hit single|hits , with several song s — "Let Me Be Your Angel," "Jump to the Beat", " Love on a Two-Way Street " and "Miracles" — crossing over to the pop music|pop mainstream. Lattisaw sound recording and reproduction|recorded her first album for Cotillion Records at the age of 12 in 1979, under the direction of record producer Van McCoy . However it was not until she affiliated with Narada Michael Walden , a former drummer with the Mahavishnu Orchestra who was just beginning a career as a producer, that she became a celebrity|star . Under Walden's direction, she had five hit albums between 1981 and 1986. She also opened for the Jacksons Triumph Tour in 1981. From Lattisaw's 1982 album " Sneakin' Out ", Mariah Carey used a sample of the song "Attack Of The Name Game" (R& B #14) for her 1999 track " Heartbreaker (Mariah Carey song)|Heartbreaker ".
Lattisaw continued recording into the late 1980s, signing to Motown Records|Motown in 1986. She scored her only #1 R& B hit with frequent duet partner Johnny Gill entitled " Where Do We Go from Here (Stacy Lattisaw & Johnny Gill song)|Where Do We Go from Here " in 1989. While the success was great, she grew increasingly disenchanted with the record industry. By the early 1990s, she decided to retire from the music industry and concentrate on raising her family. In addition, her official website states that she is now working on a gospel CD. In 2010, Lattisaw's music career was chronicled on the TV One (US TV network) docu-series " Unsung (TV series) ", in which she also appeared.
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See also
List of disco artists
List of artists who reached number one on the U.S. Dance chart
List of people from Washington, D.C.
List of artists who reached number one on the Billboard R& B chart
Number-one dance hits of 1980 (USA)
R& B number-one hits of 1990 (USA)
American Music Awards of 1982
References
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External links
myspace|id=stacy_lattisaw|name=Stacy Lattisaw
http://www.youtube.com/user/StacyLattisaw Stacy Lattisaw at YouTube
Allmusic|class=artist|id=p4730
Persondata | NAME =Lattisaw, Stacy | ALTERNATIVE NAMES = | SHORT DESCRIPTION = | DATE OF BIRTH =1966-11-25 | PLACE OF BIRTH = | DATE OF DEATH = | PLACE OF DEATH = DEFAULTSORT:Lattisaw, Stacy Category:1966 births Category:American female singers Category:American dance musicians Category:American rhythm and blues singers Category:Living people Category:Motown artists Category:Winners of Yamaha Music Festival Category:Musicians from Washington, D.C.
