By All Means was an

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male/female vocal group, consisting of James Varner, Lynn Roderick, and Billy Sheppard. Their single "I Surrender to Your Love" was released on the Fourth And Broadway

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, and entered the

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on 18 June 1988. It reached a high of No. 65, and was in the chart for two weeks. Their self-titled

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was also released on the Fourth And Broadway label, and it entered the

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on 16 July 1988, and reached No. 80; it was only in the chart for one week. They released another album in 1989 called ''Beyond a Dream'' and their final album on Motown Records ''It's Real'' in 1992. This album scored the band one of their biggest

hits, "The Feeling I Get". However, they split up soon after. Two of the members of By All Means, Lynn Roderick and James Varner, have a daughter also in music,

Elle Varner Gabrielle Serene Varner (born February 12, 1989) is an American singer-songwriter. Born into a musical family in Brooklyn, New York and raised in Los Angeles, Varner studied at New York University's Clive Davis Department of Recorded Music. In ...

. They both made appearances on her debut album ''

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'' as background singers, songwriters, and producers on a few songs.

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Musical groups established in 1988 American contemporary R&B musical groups Island Records artists Motown artists