Ramona DeSouza, more popularly known as Moné, is an American music recording artist and
songwriter
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. She scored three hits on the
US ''
Billboard
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''
Hot Dance Music/Club Play
The Dance Club Songs (also known as National Disco Action, Hot Dance/Disco Club Play, and Hot Dance Club Play) was a chart published weekly between 1976 and 2020 by ''Billboard'' magazine. It used club disc jockeys set lists to determine the mos ...
chart
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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 severa ...
,
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 ...
,
Ultra Nate and Moné) (No. 22, 1997).
In the
UK Singles Chart, "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
eating disorder
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s titled ''
What's Eating You'', in which Moné received therapy for her
bulimia nervosa
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, which developed from
adjustable gastric band
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Adjustable gastric band s ...
surgery. During the course of the documentary, she recorded "A Brighter Day" on Techntoniks Recordings.
See also
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List of number-one dance hits (United States)
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*
List of artists who reached number one on the U.S. dance chart
This is a list of recording artists who have reached number one on ''Billboard magazine's'' Dance Club Songs chart. ''Billboard'' began ranking dance music on the week ending October 26, 1974, and this is the standard music popularity chart in ...
References
External links
DivaOfSongs Moné's official website
Living people
American house musicians
American dance musicians
American women songwriters
American women singers
American electronic musicians
21st-century American women
Year of birth missing (living people)
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