By Curt and Jamila Hayman,
on Tuesday Aug, 05 2008 3:10:13 pm MST
[[Lisa Jane Stansfield]] (born April 11, 1966), better known as [[Lisa Stansfield]], is a Grammy Award-nominated and BRIT Award-winning English R&B and soul singer.
Her first TV appearance was on a talent show in the Granada TV area in 1982. She won the show singing the Human League track The Things That Dreams Are Made Of. The show was produced by the then Head Of Light Entertainment at Granada TV, Johnny Hamp.
After releasing several unsuccessful singles in her mid-teens (she also co-hosted a Children's TV pop show at this time, Razzmatazz with Alistair Pirrie), she became a major international star (as well as Razzmatazz, Stansfield can be seen in 1983 children's television show The Krankies Klub, alongside comedian Jimmy Cricket and pop rock band Rocky Sharpe and the Replays), still keeping her thick Heywood-ian (Rochdale) accent; in reference to the latter and to her working-class background (and likely in tribute to all she had managed to accomplish), Shaun Ryder from Happy Mondays once said that Stansfield's family "makes mine look posh".[citation needed] Some people think as she comes from Rochdale that she is related to Gracie Fields (whose real name was Grace Stansfield).This is in fact untrue.
Though her UK band Blue Zone saw modest success with the single "Jackie", she really came onto the radar with her guest vocal stint on Coldcut's record "People Hold On". She is probably best known for her first UK number-one single, "All Around the World" (1989), which also peaked at number three in the United States Billboard Hot 100 the following year. Other worldwide hits from her solo debut album Affection include "This Is the Right Time" (featuring a house music-styled production by Coldcut with Mark Saunders), "Live Together", "What Did I Do to You" and "You Can't Deny It". "All Around the World" was the second song by a white female soloist to hit number one on the Billboard R&B chart; (the first being "Ooo La La La" by Teena Marie in 1988);"You Can't Deny It" also topped that chart. Affection went platinum in the U.S., and sold a total of five million copies worldwide.
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