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Sphynx is a US dance music act who hit #1 on the Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart in 1995 with the song "What Hope Have I". [1] Lead vocals on this track were sung by Sabrina Johnston, a female dance singer from New Jersey. Johnston also has US dance chart entries as a solo artist.
This act is not to be confused with disco-era studio group assembled by Egyptian producer Alec R. Costandinos, called Sphinx.
A Taste of Honey was an American recording act, formed in 1971 by associates Janice-Marie Johnson and Perry Kibble. In 1978, they had one of the best known chart-toppers of the disco era, "Boogie Oogie Oogie". After their popularity waned during the 1980s, Johnson went on to record as a solo artist and released the album One Taste of Honey which produced numerous minor hits. In 2004, Hazel Payne and Janice–Marie Johnson reunited for the first time in over 20 years to perform on the PBS specials Get Down Tonight: The Disco Explosion and My Music: Funky Soul Superstars.
Carlton George Douglas is a Jamaican singer-songwriter and recording artist who is best known for the 1974 disco single "Kung Fu Fighting".
Dance Club Songs is a chart published weekly by Billboard magazine in the United States. It is a national look over of club disc jockeys to determine the most popular songs being played in nightclubs across the country. It was launched as the Disco Action Top 30 chart on August 28, 1976, and became the first chart by Billboard to document the popularity of dance music. The first number-one song on the chart for the issue dated August 28, 1976, was "You Should Be Dancing" by the Bee Gees, spending five weeks atop the chart and the group's only number-one song on the chart.
C.J. & Company was a disco group from Detroit, Michigan. They were the partnership of producers Dennis Coffey and Mike Theodore. Their highest charting single in the US was "Devil's Gun", which reached #36 on the Billboard pop chart, spending 29 weeks on the HOT 100. It wound up being the #100 song of the year on the Billboard's year end charts,, and #2 on the R&B chart in 1977. It also peaked at #43 in the UK Singles Chart. That song, along with "We Got Our Own Thing" and "Sure Can't Go to the Moon," hit #1 for five weeks on the Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart.
Love De-Luxe was a disco studio group assembled by British producer Alan Hawkshaw. They had one chart entry: "Here Comes That Sound Again", which spent a week at #1 on the Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart in 1979. Vicki Brown and Jo-Ann Stone provided the vocals, and the track was technically credited to Love De-Luxe with Hawkskaw's Discophonia.
Fever was a disco trio from San Francisco who scored a number of hits on the Hot Dance Music/Club Play Chart, the most successful being "Beat of the Night" / "Pump It Up," which hit #1. The band consisted of Dale Reed, Joseph "Joe" Bomback and Dennis Wadlington.
Debbie Jacobs is an American singer who had several disco hits.
Loleatta Holloway was an American singer, mainly known for disco songs such as "Hit and Run" and "Love Sensation". In December 2016, Billboard named her the 95th most successful dance artist of all time. According to the Independent, Holloway had "undoubtedly the most sampled female voice in popular music" that was used in house and dance tracks.
Barbara Roy was born in Kinston, North Carolina and is a dance music singer famed for her beautiful and powerful voice as well as her exquisite enunciation. She scored several big hits on the Billboard Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart during the 1970s as the lead vocalist for Ecstasy, Passion & Pain, then went on to have more success as a solo artist.
Clubland was a swedish house music act assembled in 1990 by BTECH label boss/producer Jan Ekholm and British duo Dave Rawlings and Ronnie Herel of Quartz. British musician Morgan King joined them later as a songwriter. Lead vocals for the first album Themes from Outer Clubland were variously performed by the American hip house duo 2 in a Room, British rapper Stepz, and Swedish singers Zemya Hamilton and Kayo Shekoni. In 1991, Ekholm reformed the act as a duo together with singer Zemya Hamilton.
The Daou were a New York-based dance music quintet composed of Peter Daou (keyboards), Vanessa Daou (vocals), Mike Caro (guitar), Leon Dorsey (bass), and former 24-7 Spyz member Anthony Johnson (drums). Their only album Head Music was released in 1992, with its debut single "Surrender Yourself" rising to number one on the U.S. Hot Dance Club Play chart, where it remained for 11 weeks.
SoundFactory was a Swedish dance music act comprising DJ Emil Hellman with James Gicho on vocals on some recordings. Formed in 1992, the act was known for its number-one dance single "Good Time" mixed with StoneBridge. By 1994, Hellman and Gicho had collaborated on an album, Product, before they separated ways. Hellman continued with SoundFactory as a solo act.
Meechie is a female African American dance music singer from Chicago. She placed two songs on the US Billboard Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart in the 1990s, "Bring Me Joy" and "You'll Never Find." "Bring Me Joy" spent one week at #74 in the UK Singles Chart in September 1995.
Spirits is a male/female dance music duo from England, who scored two entries on the US Billboard Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart in 1995. Members are Osmond Wright and Beverly Thomas. Their debut single, "Don't Bring Me Down" (1994), spent two weeks at number one on the dance chart and it was followed by "Spirit Inside" (1995), which hit number twelve.
Pete Heller is an English electronic and house music producer from Brighton, England.
Afro Medusa is a British dance music trio, consisting of the vocalist Isabel Fructuoso, Nick Bennett and Patrick Cole. They placed two songs on the US Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart, beginning with "Pasilda", which hit No. 1 in 2000. In 2002, they climbed to No. 26 with "Dreams" and, in 2008, they released "Oracle" with Cherie as vocalist.
Fierce Ruling Diva is a Dutch house music duo from Amsterdam consisting of producers Jeroen Flamman and Jeff Porter.
Dat Oven is a dance/electronica duo based in New York City. The act consists of Jeffery Gratton and Shunji Moriwaki.
The discography of American singer Diana Ross, the former lead singer of the Supremes, consists of 24 studio albums and 116 singles. 27 of her singles reached the Billboard top 40 in the US, 12 of them the Billboard top 10, and six of those reaching number one, placing her in a tie for fifth among the top female solo performers who have reached the top spot there. In the UK, she amassed a total of 47 top 40 singles with 20 of them reaching the top 10 and two of those reaching number one. In the US, 17 albums reached the Billboard top 40, four of those the top 10, and one album topping the chart. In the UK, 26 albums reached the top 40, eight of those the top 10, and one album topping the chart.
Soul Solution is a dance/electronica/house production duo from New York City formed by Bobby Guy and Ernie Lake.
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