Information AboutMartha Wash |
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Martha Wash is a Dance Music singer. She was born in San Francisco , California , on December 28 1953 . Wash began her music career as a back-up singer for '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 . Wash's powerful vocals were Lip Sync ed in the videos to the above songs by C+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. Wash's courtroom efforts spurred legislation making vocal credits mandatory on CDs and music videos, and also awarded her a recording contract with RCA which led to her debut, self-titled solo album in 1993. In 1992 she began charting songs on the Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart as a solo artist, hitting #1 five times:
Always a huge star within the Gay Community , she also remade her classic Weather Girls hit, this time calling it "It's Raining Men... the Sequel" in 1997 as a duet with RuPaul . Wash continues to record new music into the 21st Century such as her first new single in over 6 years, "You Lift Me Up" - a fusion of Gospel and House which is the first song produced on her own label, Purple Rose Records - 2005. SEE ALSO
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