Susan Cadogan (born Alison Anne Cadogan; 2 November 1951) is a Jamaican

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singer best known for her hit records in the 1970s.

Biography

Cadogan is the daughter of singer Lola Cadogan, who released several 78rpm

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of devotional music during the 1950s. She spent several years of her childhood in

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, where her family had moved, before returning to Jamaica. She worked as an assistant librarian, taking a job in the library of the

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at Mona. Her talents as a singer led to her recording her first single, "Love My Life" for Jamaican Broadcasting DJ Jerry Lewis, who was the boyfriend of one of Cadogan's schoolfriends.

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was in the recording studio at the time, and was impressed by Cadogan's voice enough to record an album's worth of material with her, also renaming her Susan. One of her first recordings for Perry, a

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hit, " Hurt So Good" (featuring bassist

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and the

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s), was released to little effect in Jamaica on Perry's new '"Perries" record label, but was released in the UK by Dennis Harris' DIP International label, and topped the UK Reggae Chart.

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picked up the single after it was brought to the label by A&R man

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'', 15 March 2022. Retrieved 30 March 2022 and it went on to reach No. 4 in the

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, with Cadogan flying to London to promote the single, including a television appearance on ''

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''. Perry was unhappy that Magnet had released the single, and after a court case it was determined that

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had the UK rights to the single. Cadogan then signed directly to Magnet, for whom she recorded a new version of the song. Magnet also issued the official follow-up, the Waterman-produced "Love Me Baby", which reached number 22 in July 1975, but was her last UK hit. Perry, meanwhile, arranged with the

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-based label Black Wax to release an unofficial follow-up – a

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ed version of "Love My Life". Other singles were released on Klik and Lucky in an attempt to cash in, but none of these charted. "Hurt So Good" was subsequently certified silver in the United Kingdom and gold in South Africa. Two mid 1970s albums, the Waterman-produced ''Doing It Her Way'' and ''Susan Cadogan'' (compiled from Perry's productions) were released by Magnet and

respectively, though with disappointing sales. Cadogan returned to her library job, but resurfaced as a recording artist in 1982, having a string of hits in Jamaica including covers of "

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" and "

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", and 1983's "(You Know How To Make Me) Feel So Good" – a duet with

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. After returning again to her library job for most of the 1980s, she returned with the

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-produced album ''Soulful Reggae'' in 1992. A further album, ''Chemistry of Love'', followed in 1995. Cadogan caught the music bug once more in 2001, and she performed live at the ''Heineken Startime Series'' event in Kingston. More recently, Cadogan has toured together with

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and

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as well as with the Portuguese band The Ratazanas. In 2016 she released a five-song EP, ''Take Me Back'', and in 2017 released "Love Story", a duet with

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Album discography

*''Doing It Her Way'' (1975) Magnet *''Susan Cadogan'' aka ''Hurt So Good'' (1976) Trojan *''Chemistry of Love'' (1992) Imp *''Soulful Reggae'' (1992) Ariwa *''Stealing Love'' (1998) Rhino *''The Rhythm in You'' (2003) Capo *''Sincerely...Susan'' (2004) Capo *''Two Sides of Susan'' (2008) JVC Japan *''Take Me Back'' (2017) Jump Up! *''The Girl Who Cried'' (2018) Burning Sounds *''Hurt So Good - Storybook Revisited'' (2020) Burning Sounds *''The Girl Who Cried + Chemistry of Love'' (2021) Burning Sounds

External links

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live with the Jammyland All Stars – Club Seho, New York City, 3 December 2004. (

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, mp4) *

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Cadogan, Susan 1951 births Living people Musicians from Kingston, Jamaica 20th-century Jamaican women singers Jamaican reggae singers Trojan Records artists