''Kiss of Life'' is the debut solo

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by American singer-songwriter

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, released in 1988 on

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label.

Track listing

Side one #" K.I.S.S.I.N.G." (Dana Merino,

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) – 5:24 #"Refuse to Be Loose" (

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) – 4:19 #"Innocent Side" ( Clif Magness,

) – 5:06 #"Night of No Return" (Dwania Kyles, Mervine Grady) – 4:50 Side two #"Kiss of Life" (

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, Chris Birkett) – 3:49 #"Groove of Midnight" (

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) – 4:40 #"The Legend of Ruby Diamond" (

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, Siedah Garrett) – 5:32 #"Baby's Got It Bad" (Rod Temperton, Siedah Garrett) – 4:42 #"Nobody Does Me" (Rod Temperton) – 6:06 *On the

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version, tracks 1–4 are marked as "This Side", while tracks 5–9 are marked as "That Side". *"Groove of Midnight" had been recorded as a

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during the 1986–87 '' Bad'' album sessions. *"Baby's Got It Bad" is a reworked version of "Got the Hots", a demo recorded by Michael Jackson during the 1982 '' Thriller'' album sessions (included as a bonus track on the Japanese release of ''

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'').

Personnel

Musicians

– main vocals, backing vocals on tracks 1, 2 and 4–9 *Kevin Dorsey, Jim Gilstrap, Maxine Waters, Nadirah Shakooi, Phillip Perry, Phillip Ingram, Bert Kelley, Mark Vieha,

– backing vocals *Amber Merino – "little girl" voice on track 1 *David Banks – "old man" rap on track 7 * Paul Jackson Jr., Basil Fung,

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, David Williams – guitars * Neil Stubenhaus – bass * John Robinson – drums, percussion *

, Clif Magness,

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– keyboards, synthesizers, synthesizer programming * George Duke – keyboards * Larry "Larr-Dog" Williams – synthesizers, synthesizer programming, saxophone *Daniel Higgins – saxophone *Gary Grant,

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– trumpet and flugelhorn

Production

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– A&R direction * Michael Ostin – A&R direction *Lynn Robb – art direction *Karen Jones – A&R coordinator (4) *Beverly Lund – production coordinator *JoAnn Tominaga – production coordinator *Marsha Loeb – production coordinator *Tracee Augcomfar – design (Siedah's logo) *Matt Forger – engineer additional *Alex Welti – assistant engineer *Brad Sundberg – assistant engineer *Debbie Johnson – assistant engineer *Greg Loskorn – assistant engineer *Jim McMahon – assistant engineer *Mark Hagen – assistant engineer *Matt Pakucko – assistant engineer *Ric Butz – assistant engineer *Richard Piatt – assistant engineer *Ron DaSilva – assistant engineer *Tim Jacquette – assistant engineer *Tom Biener – assistant engineer *

– executive-producer * David Massey – management *

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– mastering *Craig Johnson – mastering (tracks: A3) * Mick Guzauski – mixing (tracks: A1, A2, A4 to B5) *Victoria Pearson – photography *

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– producer *

– producer *Craig Johnson – recording *John Van Nest – recording *Jim McMahon – technical direction

Charts

References

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