Nayobe Catalina Gomez, known professionally as Nayobe (born December 18, 1967, in

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), is an American singer of

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heritage and freestyle dance-pop

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. Her most successful singles are "Good Things Come to Those Who Wait", "Second Chance for Love" and "It's Too Late", which reached positions Nos. 15, 30 and 5 on the ''Billboard''

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chart, respectively.

Career

In the early part of 1985, Nayobe became the first

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female to record a freestyle song called "Please Don't Go", produced by

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. Some music critics declared her record the first song of the genre and of the whole Latin hip hop movement which later became known as freestyle music. Nayobe's other hits include "Guess I Fell In Love", "Good Things Come to Those Who Wait", "Second Chance for Love" and "Promise Me". Her second album, ''Promise Me'', took her into a more

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and

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direction with production by

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. Nayobe returned with the self-titled

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album in 1999.

Discography

Studio albums

Singles

* 1984: " Please Don't Go" * 1985: "School Girl Crush" * 1985: "No Te Vayas" * 1986: "Good Things Come To Those Who Wait" * 1986: "Second Chance For Love" * 1987: "Guess I Feel In Love" * 1988: "It's Too Late" * 1989: "Please Don't Go/ No Te Vayas" * 1990: "I'll Be Around" * 1990: "I Love The Way You Love Me" * 1995: "All Night Long" * 1997: "We Can Dance, We Can Fly" * 1999: "Como Una Loba"

References

External links

Nayobe Web Site

on Discogs
1967 births Living people American dance musicians American women pop singers American freestyle musicians American people of Cuban descent Musicians from Brooklyn 21st-century American women {{US-pop-singer-stub