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Taylor Dayne
Taylor Dayne was Anastacia twenty years early, a rough-voiced pop siren born in New York in 1962 as Lesley Wunderman. With the help of rock whore Rick Wake, she exploded onto the pop scene in 1988 with the storming classic "Tell It To My Heart", a song which everyone should be forced to own by law.
"Tell It To My Heart" blagged Dayne a deal with Arista for an album which she knocked out in six weeks. Three other songs from the album went Top 10 in the US, and a support slot on Michael Jackson's "Bad" tour followed (who WASN'T on that tour?). Second album "Can't Fight Fate" was apparently just as successful, although not in the UK - it did, though, yeild a Billboard Chart Topper in "Love Will Lead You Back". In the US at least, it seemed as if the world belonged to Taylor Dayne.
Taylor waited until 1993 to unleash her third album, "Soul Dancing", by which time the pop landscape had turned crap and she'd been largely forgotton. With the album buried, Dayne left Arista in the slipstream of a contract-filling "Greatest Hits". The Wilderness years followed, namely a spell of four years trying her hand at acting. The classic film "Love Affair" was swiftly followed by a role in "Stag" with Mario Van Peebles and a stint in "Archie and Mabel" in a Town Hall somewhere. More acting roles followed, including playing Serena The Hostage Stripper in "Fool's Paradise", before the inevitable "album on own label" - "Naked Without You" in 1998 (Neptune Records), once her Gina G-like shackles to Arista had finally been broken by the passing of time.
Things have happily been looking up for Dayne since the turn of the decade. In 2000, her song "Planet Love" from the movie "Flawless" was a dance hit, and work on a new solo album is threatened. Recently she also had twins through a surrogate Mother after discovering she was barron. With the Father also a secret, Dayne Junior should have a real sense of identity in later life. She has recently drafted in Rodney Jerkins to spoil what's left of her career, and her website (which features the immortal line "... and the Taylor Dayne brand was born" within its biography) currently promises a "brand new EP featuring 3 new soul tracks plus classic live cuts". Be dry my soiled panties.
Unusually, you can get everything fairly easily. Even "Stag" on DVD. A quick scan of Ebay's January sales reveals that someone put the "Tell It To Your Heart" album up for £99, however it failed to sell. A different copy did sell for a penny later in the month though.
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