Amira Rasheed, or simply known as Amira, is a

dance music Dance music is music composed specifically to facilitate or accompany dancing. It can be either a whole musical piece or part of a larger musical arrangement. In terms of performance, the major categories are live dance music and recorded danc ...

singer best known for the song "My Desire" which charted three times on the

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, with its highest position at No. 20 in 2001. It also reached No. 1 on the

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for one week in its first release in December 1997, and was also the first number one Dance hit of 1998 after it climbed back to the top of the chart three weeks later in the week ending 3 January 1998. The song was produced by

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group Blaze, and each release contains numerous mixes of the song, with a popular

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mix by the

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. Capital Xtra included this version in their list of "The Best Old-School Garage Anthems of All Time".

Discography

Singles

*"Walk" (1996), Slip 'n' Slide - UK #97 *"Getaway" (1996), Easy Street Records *"What Is Love" (with Cassio & the Funky People), Easy Street Records (1997) *"My Desire" (1997),

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/Slip 'n' Slide - UK #51, UK Dance #1 *"My Desire" (1998) - UK #46 *"My Desire" (2001) - UK #20 *"Why Is It Wrong to Love You" (2000), VC Recordings/Slip 'n' Slide *"I Think of You" (with Blaze) (2003), Slip 'n' Slide

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* Living people Electronic music singers UK garage singers 20th-century British women singers Women in electronic music Year of birth missing (living people) {{singer-stub