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{{Short description|American singer (born 1966)}}
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|genre = {{hlist|[[Soul music|Soul]]|[[dance-pop]]|[[Freestyle music|freestyle]]|[[Contemporary R&B|R&B]]|[[Gospel music|gospel]]}}
|genre = {{hlist|[[Soul music|Soul]]|[[dance-pop]]|[[Freestyle music|freestyle]]|[[Contemporary R&B|R&B]]|[[Gospel music|gospel]]}}
|occupation = [[Singing|Singer]]
|occupation = [[Singing|Singer]]
|years_active = 1979–present
|years_active = 1979–1992
|instrument = Vocals
|instrument = Vocals
|label = [[Cotillion Records|Cotillion]]/[[Atlantic Records]] <small>(1979–1985)</small><br>[[Motown]] <small>(1986–1989)</small>
|label = [[Cotillion Records|Cotillion]]/[[Atlantic Records]] <small>(1979–1983)</small><br>[[Motown]] <small>(1984–1992)</small>
| associated_acts = {{hlist|[[Johnny Gill]]|[[Narada Michael Walden]]}}
}}
}}


'''Stacy Lattisaw Jackson'''<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://stacylattisaw.org|title=Stacy Lattisaw Jackson|website=stacylattisaw.org|language=en-US|access-date=2018-10-27}}</ref> (née '''Lattisaw'''; born November 25, 1966)<ref name="soul">{{cite web|title=Stacy Lattisaw Page |url=http://www.soulwalking.co.uk/Stacy%20Lattisaw.html|website=Soulwalking.co.uk|access-date=30 December 2020}}</ref> is an American [[R&B]] singer from [[Washington, D.C.]], United States.<ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0MQDAAAAMBAJ&q=stacy+lattisaw&pg=PA47|title=Ebony Jr., Vol. 12, No. 5|magazine=The Journal of Negro Education : A Quarterly Review of Problems Incident to the Education of Negroes|date=November 1984|issn=0022-2984|publisher=Johnson Publishing Company|page=47}}</ref>
'''Stacy Lattisaw Jackson'''<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://stacylattisaw.org|title=Stacy Lattisaw Jackson|website=stacylattisaw.org|language=en-US|access-date=2018-10-27}}</ref> ([[née]] '''Lattisaw'''; born November 25, 1966)<ref name="soul">{{cite web|title=Stacy Lattisaw Page|url=http://www.soulwalking.co.uk/Stacy%20Lattisaw.html|website=Soulwalking.co.uk|access-date=30 December 2020}}</ref> is an American [[R&B]] singer from [[Washington, D.C.]], United States.<ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0MQDAAAAMBAJ&q=stacy+lattisaw&pg=PA47|title=Ebony Jr., Vol. 12, No. 5|magazine=The Journal of Negro Education : A Quarterly Review of Problems Incident to the Education of Negroes|date=November 1984|issn=0022-2984|publisher=Johnson Publishing Company|page=47}}</ref>


==Career==
==Career==
The 1979 song "[[Ring My Bell]]" was originally written for then eleven-year-old Lattisaw, as a teenybopper song about kids talking on the telephone.<ref>{{cite web|title= "Ring My Bell" – Anita Ward |publisher= Super Seventies |access-date= June 12, 2014 |url= http://www.superseventies.com/1979_7singles.html}}</ref> When Lattisaw signed with a different label, [[Anita Ward]] was asked to sing it instead, and it became Ward's [[One-hit wonder|only major hit]].<ref>{{cite web|title= Ring My Bell by Anita Ward |publisher= Songfacts |access-date= June 12, 2014 |url= http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=5548}}</ref>
The 1979 song "[[Ring My Bell]]" was originally written for then twelve-year-old Lattisaw, as a teenybopper song about kids talking on the telephone.<ref>{{cite web|title= "Ring My Bell" – Anita Ward|publisher=Super Seventies|access-date=June 12, 2014|url=http://www.superseventies.com/1979_7singles.html}}</ref> When Lattisaw signed with a different label, [[Anita Ward]] was asked to sing it instead, and it became Ward's [[One-hit wonder|only major hit]].<ref>{{cite web|title= Ring My Bell by Anita Ward|publisher=Songfacts|access-date=June 12, 2014|url=http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=5548}}</ref>


Lattisaw recorded her first album for [[Cotillion Records]] at the age of 12 in 1979, under the direction of [[record producer]] [[Van McCoy]].<ref name="LarkinSM"/> 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 found larger success.<ref name="LarkinSM"/> Under Walden's direction, she scored several R&B hit albums between 1981 and 1986.<ref name="LarkinSM">{{cite book|title=[[Encyclopedia of Popular Music|The Guinness Who's Who of Soul Music]]|editor=[[Colin Larkin (writer)|Colin Larkin]]|publisher=[[Guinness Publishing]]|date=1993|edition=First|isbn=0-85112-733-9|page=158}}</ref> She also opened for the [[The Jackson 5|Jacksons]]' [[Triumph Tour]] in 1981.<ref name="Allmusic"/>
Lattisaw recorded her first album for [[Cotillion Records]] at the age of 12 in 1979, under the direction of [[record producer]] [[Van McCoy]].<ref name="LarkinSM"/> 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 found larger success.<ref name="LarkinSM"/> Under Walden's direction, she scored several R&B hit albums between 1981 and 1986.<ref name="LarkinSM">{{cite book|title=[[Encyclopedia of Popular Music|The Guinness Who's Who of Soul Music]]|editor=[[Colin Larkin (writer)|Colin Larkin]]|publisher=[[Guinness Publishing]]|date=1993|edition=First|isbn=0-85112-733-9|page=158}}</ref> She also opened for the [[The Jackson 5|Jacksons]]' [[Triumph Tour]] in 1981.<ref name="Allmusic"/>


During the 1980s and early 1990s, Lattisaw had several US R&B hit singles, and a 1980 top 3 hit in the UK with her song "[[Jump to the Beat]]". She also scored three moderate hits on the US Hot 100 chart; "Let Me Be Your Angel" (US No. 21), "[[Love on a Two-Way Street]]" (US No. 26), and "Miracles" (US No. 40).<ref name="Allmusic">{{cite web|last1=Erlewine|first1=Stephen Thomas|title=Artist Biography|url=https://www.allmusic.com/artist/stacy-lattisaw-mn0000178750/biography|website=[[AllMusic]]|access-date=30 December 2020}}</ref><ref name="H100">{{cite web|title=Chart History - Hot 100 |url=https://www.billboard.com/music/stacy-lattisaw/chart-history|website=Billboard|access-date=30 December 2020}}</ref> She signed with [[Motown Records]] in 1986. She scored her only No. 1 R&B hit with duet partner [[Johnny Gill]], titled "[[Where Do We Go from Here (Stacy Lattisaw song)|Where Do We Go from Here]]", in 1989. Since the 1990s, she has exclusively sung gospel music.<ref name="soul"/> Her official website stated that she was to work on a gospel CD. In 2010, Lattisaw's music career was chronicled on the [[TV One (U.S. TV network)|TV One]] docu-series ''[[Unsung (TV series)|Unsung]]'', in which she also appeared.
During the 1980s and early 1990s, Lattisaw had several US R&B hit singles, and a 1980 top 3 hit in the UK with her song "[[Jump to the Beat]]". She also scored three moderate hits on the US Hot 100 chart; "Let Me Be Your Angel" (US No. 21), "[[Love on a Two-Way Street]]" (US No. 26), and "Miracles" (US No. 40).<ref name="Allmusic">{{cite web|last1=Erlewine|first1=Stephen Thomas|title=Artist Biography|url=https://www.allmusic.com/artist/stacy-lattisaw-mn0000178750/biography|publisher=[[AllMusic]]|access-date=30 December 2020}}</ref><ref name="VF"/> She signed with [[Motown Records]] in 1986. She scored her only No. 1 R&B hit with duet partner [[Johnny Gill]], titled "[[Where Do We Go from Here (Stacy Lattisaw song)|Where Do We Go from Here]]", in 1989. She retired from pop music in 1992 to concentrate on raising her family, although has performed gospel music in the years since.<ref name="soul"/> Lattisaw's last recorded appearance in secular music was singing background vocals on the [[Tanya Blount]] 1994 single, "Through the Rain". In 2010, Lattisaw's music career was chronicled on the [[TV One (U.S. TV network)|TV One]] docu-series ''[[Unsung (TV series)|Unsung]]'', in which she also appeared.


==Discography==
==Discography==
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! rowspan="2"| Record label
|- style="font-size:smaller;"
|- style="font-size:smaller;"
! style="width:35px;"| [[Billboard 200|US]]<br><ref>{{cite web|title=Chart History - BILLBOARD 200|url=https://www.billboard.com/artist/stacy-lattisaw/chart-history/tlp/|website=Billboard|access-date=30 December 2020}}</ref>
! style="width:35px;"| [[Billboard 200|US]]<br><ref>{{cite magazine|title=Chart History - BILLBOARD 200|url=https://www.billboard.com/artist/stacy-lattisaw/chart-history/tlp/|magazine=Billboard|access-date=30 December 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211118024124/https://www.billboard.com/artist/stacy-lattisaw/chart-history/tlp/|archive-date=November 18, 2021}}</ref>
! style="width:35px;"| [[Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums|US<br>R&B]]<br><ref>{{cite web|title=Chart History - TOP R&B/HIP-HOP ALBUMS |url=https://www.billboard.com/artist/stacy-lattisaw/chart-history/tlp/|website=Billboard|access-date=30 December 2020}}</ref>
! style="width:35px;"| [[Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums|US<br>R&B]]<br><ref>{{cite magazine|title=Chart History - TOP R&B/HIP-HOP ALBUMS |url=https://www.billboard.com/artist/stacy-lattisaw/chart-history/tlp/|magazine=Billboard|access-date=30 December 2020}}</ref>
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| 1981
| 1981
| style="text-align:left;"| ''[[With You (album)|With You]]''
| style="text-align:left;"| ''[[With You (Stacy Lattisaw album)|With You]]''
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===Compilation albums===
===Compilation albums===
*''The Very Best of Stacy Lattisaw'' (1998, [[Rhino Entertainment|Rhino]])
*''The Very Best of Stacy Lattisaw'' (1998, [[Rhino Entertainment|Rhino]])
*''Stacey Lattishaw - The Cotillion Years 1979 - 1985'' (2021, Robinsongs)
*''Stacey Lattisaw - The Cotillion Years 1979 - 1985'' (2021, Robinsongs)


===Singles===
===Singles===
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! rowspan="2"| Album
|- style="font-size:smaller;"
|- style="font-size:smaller;"
! style="width:35px;"| [[Billboard Hot 100|US]]<br><ref name="H100"/>
! style="width:35px;"| [[Billboard Hot 100|US]]<br><ref name="VF"/>
! style="width:35px;"| [[Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs|US<br>R&B]]<br><ref>{{cite web|title=Chart History - HOT R&B/HIP-HOP SONGS |url=https://www.billboard.com/artist/stacy-lattisaw/chart-history/bsi/|website=Billboard|access-date=30 December 2020}}</ref>
! style="width:35px;"| [[Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs|US<br>R&B]]<br><ref>{{cite magazine|title=Chart History - HOT R&B/HIP-HOP SONGS |url=https://www.billboard.com/artist/stacy-lattisaw/chart-history/bsi/|magazine=Billboard|access-date=30 December 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220519172248/https://www.billboard.com/artist/stacy-lattisaw/chart-history/bsi/|archive-date=May 19, 2022}}</ref>
! style="width:35px;"| [[Dance Club Songs|US<br>Dan]]<br><ref>{{cite web|title=Chart History - DANCE CLUB SONGS |url=https://www.billboard.com/artist/stacy-lattisaw/chart-history/dsi/ |website=Billboard|access-date=30 December 2020}}</ref>
! style="width:35px;"| [[Dance Club Songs|US<br>Dan]]<br><ref name="VF"/>
! style="width:35px;"| [[Adult Contemporary (chart)|US<br>A/C]]<br><ref name="VF">{{cite web|title=Stacy Lattisaw Top Songs / Chart Singles Discography |url=https://www.musicvf.com/Stacy+Lattisaw.art|website=Music VF|access-date=30 December 2020}}</ref>
! style="width:35px;"| [[Adult Contemporary (chart)|US<br>A/C]]<br><ref name="VF">{{cite web|title=Stacy Lattisaw Top Songs / Chart Singles Discography |url=https://www.musicvf.com/Stacy+Lattisaw.art|website=Music VF|access-date=30 December 2020}}</ref>
! style="width:35px;"| [[UK Singles Chart|UK]]<br><ref name="chartstats">{{cite web|url=https://www.officialcharts.com/artists/|title=Stacy Lattisaw Official Charts Company|publisher=[[Official Charts Company]]|access-date=2009-08-29}}</ref>
! style="width:35px;"| [[UK Singles Chart|UK]]<br><ref name="chartstats">{{cite web|url=https://www.officialcharts.com/artist/18539/stacy-lattisaw/|title=Stacy Lattisaw Official Charts Company|publisher=[[Official Charts Company]]|access-date=2009-08-29}}</ref>
! style="width:35px;"| [[Irish Singles Chart|IRL]]<br><ref name="chartstats2">{{cite web|url=http://irishcharts.ie/search/placement?page=1&search_type=artist&placement=Stacey%20Lattisaw|title=Displaying 1 for "Stacey Lattisaw"|website=The Irish Charts - All There Is To Know|publisher=[[Irish Recorded Music Association|IRMA]]|access-date=2020-08-02}}</ref>
! style="width:35px;"| [[Irish Singles Chart|IRL]]<br><ref name="chartstats2">{{cite web|url=http://irishcharts.ie/search/placement?page=1&search_type=artist&placement=Stacey%20Lattisaw|title=Displaying 1 for "Stacey Lattisaw"|website=The Irish Charts - All There Is To Know|publisher=[[Irish Recorded Music Association|IRMA]]|access-date=2020-08-02}}</ref>
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| style="text-align:center;" colspan="9"| <small>"—" denotes the single failed to chart</small>
| style="text-align:center;" colspan="9"| <small>"—" denotes the single failed to chart</small>
|}
|}

== Other Appearances==
* Bervin Harris - No Show : lead vocals
* [[Tanya Blount]] - Through The Rain & Hold On : backing vocals
* [[Johnny Gill]] - Where Do We Go From Here : vocals
* [[Howard Hewett]] & Stacy Lattishaw - Ain't No Mountain High Enough : vocal duet
* [[King Dream Chorus and Holiday Crew]] - King Holiday : member of the Chorus
* Phinal Faze - Ya Killin Me : vocals


==See also==
==See also==
*[[List of disco artists (S-Z)]]
*[[List of disco artists (S–Z)]]
*[[List of artists who reached number one on the U.S. Dance chart]]
*[[List of artists who reached number one on the U.S. Dance Club Songs chart]]
*[[List of people from Washington, D.C.]]
*[[List of people from Washington, D.C.]]
*[[List of artists who reached number one on the Billboard R&B chart]]
*[[List of artists who reached number one on the Billboard R&B chart]]
*[[Number-one dance hits of 1980 (USA)]]
*[[List of number-one dance singles of 1980 (U.S.)]]
*[[R&B number-one hits of 1990 (USA)]]
*[[List of number-one R&B singles of 1990 (U.S.)]]
*[[American Music Awards of 1982]]
*[[American Music Awards of 1982]]


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==External links==
==External links==
*[https://myspace.com/stacy_lattisaw Stacy Lattisaw] on [[Myspace]]
*[https://www.youtube.com/user/StacyLattisaw Stacy Lattisaw] at [[YouTube]]
*[https://www.youtube.com/user/StacyLattisaw Stacy Lattisaw] at [[YouTube]]
*{{AllMusic|class=artist|id=p4730}}
*{{AllMusic|class=artist|id=p4730}}
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Latest revision as of 13:43, 8 July 2024

Stacy Lattisaw
Born (1966-11-25) November 25, 1966 (age 57)
Washington, D.C., U.S.[1]
Genres
Occupation(s)Singer
Instrument(s)Vocals
Years active1979–1992
LabelsCotillion/Atlantic Records (1979–1983)
Motown (1984–1992)

Stacy Lattisaw Jackson[2] (née Lattisaw; born November 25, 1966)[1] is an American R&B singer from Washington, D.C., United States.[3]

Career

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The 1979 song "Ring My Bell" was originally written for then twelve-year-old Lattisaw, as a teenybopper song about kids talking on the telephone.[4] When Lattisaw signed with a different label, Anita Ward was asked to sing it instead, and it became Ward's only major hit.[5]

Lattisaw recorded her first album for Cotillion Records at the age of 12 in 1979, under the direction of record producer Van McCoy.[6] 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 found larger success.[6] Under Walden's direction, she scored several R&B hit albums between 1981 and 1986.[6] She also opened for the Jacksons' Triumph Tour in 1981.[7]

During the 1980s and early 1990s, Lattisaw had several US R&B hit singles, and a 1980 top 3 hit in the UK with her song "Jump to the Beat". She also scored three moderate hits on the US Hot 100 chart; "Let Me Be Your Angel" (US No. 21), "Love on a Two-Way Street" (US No. 26), and "Miracles" (US No. 40).[7][8] She signed with Motown Records in 1986. She scored her only No. 1 R&B hit with duet partner Johnny Gill, titled "Where Do We Go from Here", in 1989. She retired from pop music in 1992 to concentrate on raising her family, although has performed gospel music in the years since.[1] Lattisaw's last recorded appearance in secular music was singing background vocals on the Tanya Blount 1994 single, "Through the Rain". In 2010, Lattisaw's music career was chronicled on the TV One docu-series Unsung, in which she also appeared.

Discography

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Studio albums

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Year Album Peak chart positions Record label
US
[9]
US
R&B

[10]
1979 Young and in Love Cotillion
1980 Let Me Be Your Angel 44 9
1981 With You 46 8
1982 Sneakin' Out 55 11
1983 Sixteen 160 26
1984 Perfect Combination (with Johnny Gill) 139 27
1985 I'm Not the Same Girl
1986 Take Me All the Way 131 36 Motown
1988 Personal Attention 153 24
1989 What You Need 16
"—" denotes the album failed to chart

Compilation albums

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  • The Very Best of Stacy Lattisaw (1998, Rhino)
  • Stacey Lattisaw - The Cotillion Years 1979 - 1985 (2021, Robinsongs)

Singles

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Year Title Peak chart positions Album
US
[8]
US
R&B

[11]
US
Dan

[8]
US
A/C

[8]
UK
[12]
IRL
[13]
1979 "When You're Young and in Love" 91 Young and in Love
1980 "Dynamite!" 8 1 51 Let Me Be Your Angel
"Jump to the Beat" 3 11
"Let Me Be Your Angel" 21 8 34
1981 "Love on a Two Way Street" 26 2 19 With You
"It Was So Easy" 61
"Feel My Love Tonight" 71 36
1982 "Don't Throw It All Away" 101 9 Sneakin' Out
"Attack of the Name Game" 70 14
"Hey There Lonely Boy" 108 71
1983 "Miracles" 40 13 Sixteen
"Million Dollar Babe" 52
1984 "Perfect Combination" (with Johnny Gill) 75 10 Perfect Combination
"Baby It's You" (with Johnny Gill) 102 37
"Block Party" (with Johnny Gill) 63 48
1985 "I'm Not the Same Girl" 52 I'm Not the Same Girl
"He's Just Not You"
"Can't Stop Thinking About You"
1986 "Nail It to the Wall" 48 4 2 76 Take Me All the Way
1987 "Jump into My Life" 13 3 79
"Every Drop of Your Love" 8 Personal Attention
1988 "Let Me Take You Down" 11
"Call Me" 80
1989 "What You Need" 30 What You Need
"Where Do We Go from Here" (featuring Johnny Gill) 1 20
"Dance for You" (featuring Johnny Gill)
1990 "I Don't Have the Heart"
"—" denotes the single failed to chart

See also

[edit]

References

[edit]
  1. ^ a b c "Stacy Lattisaw Page". Soulwalking.co.uk. Retrieved December 30, 2020.
  2. ^ "Stacy Lattisaw Jackson". stacylattisaw.org. Retrieved October 27, 2018.
  3. ^ "Ebony Jr., Vol. 12, No. 5". The Journal of Negro Education : A Quarterly Review of Problems Incident to the Education of Negroes. Johnson Publishing Company. November 1984. p. 47. ISSN 0022-2984.
  4. ^ ""Ring My Bell" – Anita Ward". Super Seventies. Retrieved June 12, 2014.
  5. ^ "Ring My Bell by Anita Ward". Songfacts. Retrieved June 12, 2014.
  6. ^ a b c Colin Larkin, ed. (1993). The Guinness Who's Who of Soul Music (First ed.). Guinness Publishing. p. 158. ISBN 0-85112-733-9.
  7. ^ a b Erlewine, Stephen Thomas. "Artist Biography". AllMusic. Retrieved December 30, 2020.
  8. ^ a b c d "Stacy Lattisaw Top Songs / Chart Singles Discography". Music VF. Retrieved December 30, 2020.
  9. ^ "Chart History - BILLBOARD 200". Billboard. Archived from the original on November 18, 2021. Retrieved December 30, 2020.
  10. ^ "Chart History - TOP R&B/HIP-HOP ALBUMS". Billboard. Retrieved December 30, 2020.
  11. ^ "Chart History - HOT R&B/HIP-HOP SONGS". Billboard. Archived from the original on May 19, 2022. Retrieved December 30, 2020.
  12. ^ "Stacy Lattisaw Official Charts Company". Official Charts Company. Retrieved August 29, 2009.
  13. ^ "Displaying 1 for "Stacey Lattisaw"". The Irish Charts - All There Is To Know. IRMA. Retrieved August 2, 2020.
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