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Adeva (born Patricia Daniels) is an American singer. She had a string of successful house and R&B hits in the late 1980s to early 1990s, including "Warning!", "I Thank You" and "Respect" (all three of which reached number 17 in the UK Singles Chart).
Early life
Born in 1960 in Paterson, New Jersey, Daniels was the youngest of six children. She developed her voice as a member, and later director and vocal coach, of her church choir. She began singing professionally in the mid-1980s, releasing the single "In and Out of My Life" in 1988 on Easy Street Records.
Debut album
Immediately after this, she signed with the UK label Cooltempo (a subsidiary of EMI) later in 1988 and released a house reworking of the Aretha Franklin hit "Respect" that reached #17 in the UK. Her debut album Adeva! was released in August 1989, and peaked at #6 on the UK Albums Chart, #28 in Germany, and #14 in Australia. The album was certified platinum by the British Phonographic Industry for UK sales exceeding 300,000 copies. In addition to "Respect", the album contained several other hit singles including "Warning!" and "I Thank You", both of which also reached #17 in the UK, and "Musical Freedom" which reached #22. The album was released in the United States in 1990 via EMI's Capitol Records, where "Warning!" had become a top 10 Billboard Dance Chart hit.
Later career
Her second album, 1991's Love or Lust failed to chart in both the UK and US, despite featuring two hit singles on the US Dance chart, "Independent Woman" (US Dance #7) and "It Should Have Been Me" (US Dance #1), and she was dropped by Cooltempo in 1992.
Adeva collaborated with house-music pioneer Frankie Knuckles in 1995, with whom she released two UK top 40 singles and an album, Welcome to the Real World.
In 1997, Adeva released another album, New Direction, on Distinctive Records, but it was unsuccessful. It was her last album to date, although she was featured on various singles in 2003–04 with other artists, including Radical Noiz and Eric Prydz, who both sampled Adeva's 1988 single "In and out of My Life", which was also sampled by OnePhatDeeva in 1999. She was also featured on the 2004 single "Wish I Never Knew" by the Scandinavian dance act Slippery People.
Discography
= Studio albums
== Compilation albums
== Singles
== Collaborations
== Videos
=1991 Live at the Town and Country Club, Chrysalis/EMI Video (UK)
1992 The Video Hits!
See also
List of Billboard number-one dance club songs
List of artists who reached number one on the U.S. Dance Club Songs chart
References
External links
Allmusic.com: Adeva
Adeva! is the debut album by American singer Adeva, released in 1989. The album features the singles "Respect" (UK No. 17), "Musical Freedom (Free At Last)" (UK No. 22), "Warning!" (UK No. 17), "I Thank You" (UK No. 17), "Beautiful Love" (UK No. 57) and "Treat Me Right" (UK No. 62). The album was particularly successful in the United Kingdom, where it reached No. 6 in the UK Albums Chart and was certified platinum by the British Phonographic Industry for UK sales exceeding 300,000 copies.
Critical reception
In a retrospective review for AllMusic, Alex Henderson praised "big-voiced" Adeva's "aggressive, gospel-influenced belting", calling it "a throwback to the days of Gloria Gaynor, Grace Jones, Linda Clifford, and Loleatta Holloway.
Track listing
Note
Tracks 11–13 on CD only.
Note
Although titled differently, track 12 is the same remix as track 13 on the UK CD version.
Personnel
Adapted from the album's liner notes.
Adeva – lead vocals
Carmen Brown – background vocals
Michael Cameron – drum programming
Roger Cozine – keyboards
Rod Goode – drum programming
Keith Jacks – guitar, assistant engineer
Tony Jenkins – background vocals
Frank Jones – background vocals
Kevin Lewis – keyboards
Andrew MacPherson – photography
Brenda Mickens – background vocals
Russ Kip Moore – saxophone, engineer
Troy Patterson – keyboards, drum programming, background vocals
Pablovia Raban – mixing
Rico Tyler – keyboards, drum programming
Charts and certifications
References
External links
Adeva! (UK version) at Discogs
Adeva! (US version) at Discogs