Mp3 music: Stephanie Mills

Artist: Stephanie Mills: mp3 download    Genre(s):  Other     Stephanie Mills's discography:      Born For This!    Year: 2004    Tracks: 10 Stephanie Mills first substructure came to fame as "the little daughter with the vainglorious voice" as the star of the hit Broadway play, The Wiz, an adaptation of L. Frank Baum's definitive book, The Wizard Of Oz. She had many R&B hits such as "I Have Learned to Respect the Power of Love," "I Feel Good All Over," "(You're Puttin') A Rush On Me," "Something in the Way (You Make Me Feel)" and "Home" along with one certifiable trillion merchandising single, "Never Knew Love Like This Before." In accession, she as well had v atomic issue 79 albums: Whatcha Gonna Do With My Lovin', Sweet Sensation, Stephanie, If I Were Your Woman and Home. Born on March 22, 1957 in Brooklyn, NY, Mills honed her rich vocals singing creed euphony at Brooklyn's Cornerstone Baptist Church as a little shaver. At age 9, she began appearing in the Broadway play Maggie Flynn. She was presented with first-class honours degree prize afterward winning "The Amateur Hour" natural endowment contest half a dozen weeks straight at New York's renowned Apollo Theater when she was nine. That success light-emitting diode to her being chosen as the opening behave for The Isley Brothers, eventually decorous good friends with leash vocalizer Ronald Isley. Many age after, Isley would manage and after marry singer/songwriter Angela Winbush, wHO co-wrote one of her number one and only R&B hits. Mills' debut album, Movin' In The Right Direction was recorded for ABC Records in 1974. A twelvemonth after, she won the role of Dorothy in The Wiz. Her rendering of the beautiful lay "Home" was a show-stopper, mesmeric audiences nightly for a bit of eld. The original draw recording of The Wiz was produced by Jerry Wexler and issued by Atlantic Records in spring 1975. Curiously, when The Wiz was made into a full length feature film by Motown Records' moving picture division and Universal Pictures, Diana Ross played the function of Dorothy instead of Mills. The moving picture all over up being a major washout. Vocalist Jermaine Jackson referred Mills to Motown head Berry Gordy, wHO signed her to the label. Her Motown debut was For the First Time, written and produced by Burt Bacharach and Hal David, beingness issued in October 1976. For the First Time is a sweet affair with Mills convincingly cover Bacharach/David standards, most of which were originally recorded by Dionne Warwick. In 1978, she signed to twentieth Century Records and was teamed with the hit production duet of James Mtume -- later leader of Mtume, wHO had a au single with "Juicy Fruit" -- and Reggie Lucas. Her first-class honours degree LP for the label, Whatcha Gonna Do With My Lovin', went gold, departure to number 12 R&B and number 22 pop on Billboard's charts in summertime 1979 and spawned the singles, "Whatcha Gonna Do With My Lovin'" and "You Can Get Over." Her next LP, Sweet Sensation (#3 R&B, #16 Pop, spring 1980) yielded "Dulcet Sensation," "Ne'er Knew Love Like This Before," and the radio-aired LP caterpillar track, "Strain My Love." Around this clip, she briefly married former Soul Train professional dancer Jeffrey Daniels of the radical Shalamar. Next came the LP highborn Stephanie in spring 1981, which too was a brobdingnagian strike, peaking at #3 R&B and #30 Pop. The record album included notable songs such as "Deuce Hearts" -- a midtempo dyad with Teddy Pendergrass -- "Nighttime Games" and the radio-aired LP cut, "Don't Stop Doin' What Cha Do." In 1981, Mills switched to Neil Bogart's Casablanca Records. Her LPs for the label included Invitingly Hot, Unmerciful and I've Got The Cure. During 1983, she had her have NBC-TV daytime talk show and reprised on role in a Broadway revitalisation of The Wiz. She likewise signed with MCA Records, where she released her Stephanie Mills record album. The first single from the Stephanie Mills record album was "Pedestal Back," in late 1985, which likewise included the passionate ballad "I Have Learned To Respect The Power Of Love." "I Have Learned To Respect The Power Of Love" was initially written by Rene Moore and Angela Winbush -- charles Herbert Best known as the hit singing duo Rene & Angela -- as a gospel song and originally was recorded by Alton McClain and Destiny on their self-titled 1978 Polydor LP. The original interpretation is available on Polygram's Power of Love: Best of Soul Essentials Ballads. Because of its massive radio receiver wreak as an album track, Mills' version of "I Have Learned To Respect The Power Of Love, -- produced by Philly Soul keyboardist Ron Kersey -- was reissued as an A english retention the #1 R&B spot for iI weeks in spring 1986. Its follow-up, "Emerging Desire" reached #11 R&B in summer 1986. Her adjacent LP's title rationalize was the Clay McMurray/Gloria Jones/Pam Sawyer sung, "If I Were Your Woman," in the beginning a 1971 #1 R&B, #9 Pop smash for Gladys Knight and the Pips. Philly-based producer Nick Martinelli gave Mills her second #1 R&B hit with "I Feel Good All Over," scripted by husband and married woman songwriting duad, Gabriel Hardeman and Annette Hardeman. The sung held the #1 R&B spot for leash weeks in spring 1987. Originally submitted to Mills' fellow MCA labelmate Patti Labelle by the Hardemans, the cut was included on Mills' LP If I Were Your Woman, issued June 1987 and peaked at #30 Pop in summer 1987. Paul Laurence produced and co-wrote with Timmy Allen the chugging '"(You're Putting) a Rush On Me" giving the singer her third #1 R&B hit in accrue 1987. The single made it to #85 Pop and was followed by "Secret Lady," which landed at #7 R&B in late 1987. Her covers of "If I Were Your Woman" and "Where Is The Love" followed. All were included on her If I Were Your Woman album, which under the weather at #1 R&B, #30 Pop in summer 1987. Following these hits, Mills contacted Ronald Isley about functional with Angela Winbush world Health Organization had hits as half of Rene and Angela and was forging a hit-filled career as a recording artist and producer for the group Body among others. The quislingism between Mills and Winbush resulted in another #1 R&B single, "Something In The Way You Make Me Feel," in summer 1989. Having asterisked for little Phoebe age in the smash Broadway render The Wiz and recorded the song "Home for the play's 1975 original throw soundtrack record record album, she precious to track record the song dynasty once more as a posthumous security to the play's producer, Ken Harper, and the song's composer, Charlie Smalls. On her new interpretation of "Home," Take 6 sung the background vocals. The song went to #1 R&B in tardy 1989 and was followed by "Comfort Of A Man" and "Real Love." The Home LP complete up peaking at #5 R&B, #82 Pop in summer 1989. She then recorded a charting single with J.T. Taylor highborn "Warmheartedness To Heart" in late 1991. Her final MCA album, Something Real included the polish off "All Day All Night" and "Never Do Wrong." Following this album, she recorded a gospel truth album, Personal Inspirations, for Interscope Records and recorded respective tracks at Philadelphia International Records with Bunny Sigler among others in the late '90s.