Debelah Morgan

Debelah Morgan on the cover of I Remember

Debelah Morgan (born September 29, 1977, Detroit, Michigan) is an American r&b singer and songwriter.

Debelah was born to an Indian mother and an African-American father. She started taking piano lessons at the age of 3. She also learned to sing in many different languages besides English (French, Italian, German, Hindi, and Portuguese.) Later she and her family moved to Arizona where she won beauty pageants at the age of fifteen and organized a gospel choir in her high school. She majored in Vocal Performance.

At the age of seventeen she signed to Atlantic Records and released her debut album titled Debelah. This album is her rarest, it wasn't released worldwide, only in the US and Japan, and even there it wasn't really promoted. Her label dropped her after the release.

She signed to Motown and released her second album titled It's Not Over in 1998. Half of the tracks were co-written by her and some were co-written by her brother Giloh. Again it wasn't released worldwide, only in Europe and Asia. Her songs I Love You and Yesterday were moderate hits. Motown was bought by Universal, and they wanted Debelah to record an urban album. Debelah didn't want to be just another black hip-hop artist, she wanted to do a pop-r&b album that appeals to all races, so she left them.

In 1998 and 1999 Debelah was featured on three soundtrack albums ("Fame L. A.," "Our Friend Martin" and "Stuart Little".) On the Our Friend Martin soundtrack she sang a new song written by Diane Warren, the other soundtracks featured songs from her It's Not Over album.

Debelah had to file for bankruptcy, but she didn't give up and began to work on a new album. All the tracks were written by her and her brother. She presented the material to her first label Atlantic, who signed her again (didn't even remembering she was signed to them before). The album called Dance With Me was released in 2000, and the title track, a tango style song, became a hit, peaking at No. 8 on the Billboard Singles chart and gaining popularity all over the world. In Spain it was also released with Spanish lyrics, titled Baila Conmigo. She also released a second single called I Remember.

One of her songs from the Dance With Me album was featured on the Spyder Games soundtrack, while a new Diane Warren ballad was on the soundtrack for Osmosis Jones.

Debelah is reportedly working on a new album.

Discography

Albums

  • Debelah (Atlantic, 1994)
  • It's Not Over (Motown, 1998)
  • Dance With Me (Atlantic, 2000)

Singles

  • Take It Easy (1994)
  • I Love You (1998)
  • Yesterday (79th on Billboard's Hot 100 Singles Chart, 1998)
  • Dance With Me (8th on Billboard's Hot 100 Singles Chart, 2000)
  • I Remember

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Debelah is reportedly working on a new album. Ralph Middlebrooks died in November 1997. One of her songs from the Dance With Me album was featured on the Spyder Games soundtrack, while a new Diane Warren ballad was on the soundtrack for Osmosis Jones. Clarence Satchell died in January 1996 after he had a brain aneurysm. She also released a second single called I Remember.. [1] (http://snopes.com/music/hidden/roller.htm) The band did not discredit this rumor at the time, because, as one band member put it later, "that makes you sell more records.". In Spain it was also released with Spanish lyrics, titled Baila Conmigo. There is also an urban legend that has it that a scream on "Love Rollercoaster" that came before the second verse was the sound of someone being killed in the studio while the track was being recorded.

8 on the Billboard Singles chart and gaining popularity all over the world. The band became widely known not only for their sound, which has been sampled and copied by countless R&B and hip-hop artists since, but for their sexually provocative album covers, including the cover of 1974's Ecstasy, which featured a man and a woman in a pose of arousal wearing chains and leather, and 1975's Honey, which featured a nude woman holding an overflowing jar of honey and dropping some into her mouth with a ladle. The album called Dance With Me was released in 2000, and the title track, a tango style song, became a hit, peaking at No. The group's last big hit was "Who'd See Coo," a #1 R&B hit in August 1976. She presented the material to her first label Atlantic, who signed her again (didn't even remembering she was signed to them before). The band had seven more Top 40 hits between 1973 and 1976, including the smashes "Fire" (#1 on both the R&B and pop charts for two weeks and one week respectively in February 1975) and "Love Rollercoaster" (#1 on both the R&B and pop charts for 1 week in January 1976). All the tracks were written by her and her brother. The band’s first big hit was “Funky Worm,” which hit #1 on the Billboard R&B Charts and made the pop Top 15 in May 1973.

Debelah had to file for bankruptcy, but she didn't give up and began to work on a new album. Bonner sang lead vocals on most of the band's hits. A.," "Our Friend Martin" and "Stuart Little".) On the Our Friend Martin soundtrack she sang a new song written by Diane Warren, the other soundtracks featured songs from her It's Not Over album. The band signed with Mercury Records in 1974; by this time their lineup had changed again, with keyboardist Billy Beck instead of Morrison and Jimmy "Diamond" Williams on drums instead of Webster. In 1998 and 1999 Debelah was featured on three soundtrack albums ("Fame L. After again reforming with a line-up including Bonner, Satchell, Middlebrooks, Jones, Webster, trumpeter Bruce Napier, trombonist Marvin Pierce, and keyboardist Walter "Junie" Morrison, the Players had a minor hit on the Detroit-based Westbound label in 1971 with "Pain," which reached the Billboard R&B Top 40. Debelah didn't want to be just another black hip-hop artist, she wanted to do a pop-r&b album that appeals to all races, so she left them. The group disbanded again in 1970.

Motown was bought by Universal, and they wanted Debelah to record an urban album. They then became famous and got better than any group alive. Her songs I Love You and Yesterday were moderate hits. The group added two more singers, Bobby Lee Fears and Dutch Robinson, and became the house band for New York City-based Compass Records in 1967. Again it wasn't released worldwide, only in Europe and Asia. The Ohio Untouchables broke up in 1963, with Ward leaving for a solo career, but the core members of the group returned to Dayton and added Gary Webster (drums) and Leroy "Sugarfoot" Bonner (guitar) in 1964. Half of the tracks were co-written by her and some were co-written by her brother Giloh. They formed in Dayton, Ohio in 1959 as the Ohio Untouchables, and initially included members Robert Ward (vocals/guitar), Marshall "Rock" Jones (bass), Clarence "Satch" Satchell (saxophone/guitar), Cornelius Johnson (drums), and Ralph "Pee Wee" Middlebrooks (trumpet/trombone).

She signed to Motown and released her second album titled It's Not Over in 1998. The Ohio Players are a funk band whose heyday was in the mid- to late 1970s. Her label dropped her after the release. This album is her rarest, it wasn't released worldwide, only in the US and Japan, and even there it wasn't really promoted. At the age of seventeen she signed to Atlantic Records and released her debut album titled Debelah.

She majored in Vocal Performance. She also learned to sing in many different languages besides English (French, Italian, German, Hindi, and Portuguese.) Later she and her family moved to Arizona where she won beauty pageants at the age of fifteen and organized a gospel choir in her high school. She started taking piano lessons at the age of 3. Debelah was born to an Indian mother and an African-American father.

Debelah Morgan (born September 29, 1977, Detroit, Michigan) is an American r&b singer and songwriter. I Remember. Dance With Me (8th on Billboard's Hot 100 Singles Chart, 2000). Yesterday (79th on Billboard's Hot 100 Singles Chart, 1998).

I Love You (1998). Take It Easy (1994). Dance With Me (Atlantic, 2000). It's Not Over (Motown, 1998).

Debelah (Atlantic, 1994).