Ramona DeSouza, more popularly known as Moné, is an American music recording artist and

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. She scored three hits on the US ''

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Hot Dance Music/Club Play Dance Club Songs is a chart published weekly by ''Billboard'' magazine in the United States. It is a national look over of club disc jockeys to determine the most popular songs being played in nightclubs across the country. It was launched as th ...

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: "We Can Make It" (No. 1, 1995), "Movin'" (No. 2, 1996) and "Partay Feeling" (As B-Crew featuring

Barbara Tucker Barbara Tucker (born March 19, 1967), is an American house and soul singer, songwriter and choreographer born in Brooklyn, New York, US. Tucker had six No. 1 hits on the US Hot Dance Club Songs chart in the 1990s and into the 2000s, and seve ...

Dajae Karen Gordon, better known by her stage name Dajae (), is a female R&B and dance music singer born in Chicago, Illinois. Biography Dajae sang in various soul bands for over a decade prior to working with house music producer Cajmere, who feature ...

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and Moné) (No. 22, 1997). In the

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, "We Can Make It" (No. 64, 1995) and "Movin'" (No. 48, 1996) each spent one week in that listing. In 2010, she participated in an E!'s documentary series about

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s titled '' What's Eating You'', in which Moné received therapy for her

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, which developed from adjustable gastric band surgery. During the course of the documentary, she recorded "A Brighter Day" on Techntoniks Recordings.

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