Wondress Hutchinson (June 20, 1964 – May 1, 2021), better known
mononymously
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as Wondress, was an American
electronic dance music and
jazz fusion singer who worked with the
old school hip hop
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/
group
Mantronix
Mantronix was an influential 1980s hip hop and electro funk music group from New York City. The band was formed by DJ Kurtis Mantronik (Kurtis el Khaleel) and rapper MC Tee (Touré Embden). The group is primarily remembered for its pioneerin ...
.
Hutchinson sang lead vocals on Mantronix UK
Top 10 hits, "
Got to Have Your Love
"Got to Have Your Love" is a song by American hip hop and electro funk group Mantronix, featuring vocals from American recording artist Wondress. It was released by Capitol Records in December 1989 as the lead single from Mantronix's fourth ...
" and "Take Your Time" (taken from the 1990 album ''
This Should Move Ya
''This Should Move Ya'' is the fourth album by the American hip hop/electro funk group Mantronix, released in 1990. It was the second Mantronix album released on Capitol Records. ''This Should Move Ya'' featured new members Bryce "Luvah" Wilson ...
'').
[
In 1995, Hutchinson sang ]background vocals
A backing vocalist is a singer who provides vocal harmony with the lead vocalist or other backing vocalists. A backing vocalist may also sing alone as a lead-in to the main vocalist's entry or to sing a counter-melody. Backing vocalists are us ...
for jazz fusion group, Spyro Gyra (1995 album '' Love and Other Obsessions'').[
In 2001 and again in 2003, Hutchinson sang lead and background for Baltimore-based house music artist ]DJ Spen
Sean Spencer (born October 13, 1968), better known by his stage name DJ Spen or Spen, is an American DJ, record producer, and record executive.
Music career
Spencer got his start, at the age of 13, as a local DJ in Baltimore, Maryland, making m ...
(''Solid Ground EP'' (2001)), and gospel music/ house music group, Jasper Street Co. (''Interpretations (The Remix Collection)'' (2003)).
References
External links
1964 births
2021 deaths
American gospel singers
American house musicians
Smooth jazz singers
American women in electronic music
20th-century African-American women singers
21st-century African-American women singers
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