Janet Kay - Immaculate Collection

Body Music

£12.60

Format: CD
Catalogue No.: JANET2
Barcode: 5024454000565
Release Date: 03 Dec 2021
Genre: Reggae

Janet Kay Bogle, 17 January 1958, London, England. Kay attended Brondesbury High School, Wembley, and later took up secretarial studies, skills to which she has returned at various junctures in her recording career. Her first recordings came under the aegis of Alton Ellis in 1977. This had been brought about by a chance meeting with members of Aswad that summer, who recommended her to the reggae stalwart. The first result of the collaboration, ‘Loving You’, topped the reggae charts. In many ways she was the prototype lovers rock singer, with her spirited vocals floating over some of the genre’s most inspired basslines. ‘That’s What Friends Are For’ and ‘I Do Love You’ followed. However, her breakthrough came with ‘Silly Games’, produced by Dennis Bovell for the Arawak label. It became a huge crossover hit, reaching number 2 in 1979. Kay has returned intermittently to recording, predominantly in the lovers rock style, and has also acted extensively as part of the Black Theatre Co-operative, appearing in several straight acting roles on television. Her work has never lost its popularity with the reggae audience, despite her low profile for much of the 80s and 90s, and she has the talent and personality to be successful on her own terms.

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Tracklist:
1 So Amazing
2 Look What Love Can Do
3 Almaz
4 Loving You
5 Moving Away
6 Kiss Away
7 Bad Bad Girl
8 Chariots Of Fire
9 I!D Rather Go Blind
10 The Closer I Get To You
11 For The Good Times
12 Music Man
13 Dreams Of Emation
14 Have You Ever Love Somebody
15 Since I Feel For You
16 One Day I Will Fly Away
17 He Reminds Me
18 Trade Winds
19 Show Me The Way
20 So Good So Right
21 Imagine
22 Computer Love
23 I Want To Be The One
24 Love Wont Let Me Wait