Rick Springfield

From February 2001 through December 2002, Springfield performed in EFX Alive! at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Nevada to critical acclaim.
. Although his achievements are not well recognised in Australia, he has long maintained a large and fiercely loyal fan base in the United States and his many career achievements include a Grammy Award, four platinum albums, twenty US Top 100 singles and seventeen Top 40 hits including a US #1 and #2 single. Notably, Tamia was also nominated for a grammy for the "You Put a Move On My Heart" single. He played a few minor roles on television in the 1990s, and released an album in 1999. Nevertheless, Tamia's popularity has managed to maintain itself despite her relatively lackluster performance on American mainstream radio, so it may only be a matter of time before Tamia becomes a household name. After a few albums with some hit singles, Springfield's lack of critical acceptance slowed his career, though he continued releasing albums throughout the 1980s. So far, they have both performed as successfully on urban radio as any of her previous singles. Neither, however, has crossed over to mainstream radio.

Springfield was also nominated for two Grammys in 1982 and one Grammy in 1983. In 2003, Tamia also released her third album, which has spawned the singles "Officially Missing You" and "Questions". Springfield won a Grammy in 1981 for Best Male Rock Vocal Performance for "Jessie's Girl". With the success of that single, and Tamia's appearance in its music video, Tamia's mainstream popuarity grew again. With a rabid fanbase, Springfield returned to music with Working Class Dog and the singles "Jessie's Girl" and "I've Done Everything for You". Most recently, the chorus from Tamia's "So Into You" was sampled and used in Fabolous' 2003 hit, "Into You". He then became a soap opera actor, most notable for appearing on General Hospital. Along with Tamia, Brandy, Gladys Knight, and Chaka Khan performed the song, which peacked in the top 30 on Billboard's Hot 100 Singles chart.

He had a successful acting career, beginning with a brief role as Zac in the 1978 movie Battlestar Galactica. Tamia is also known for her 1996 pop and R&B hit, "Missing You", from the Set It Off soundtrack. He then went solo in 1971 (see 1971 in music) but was unable to maintain much of a career in the 1970s. Since then, she has released three albums of her own, the most famous of which was her sophomore album, 2000's A Nu Day. It featured the smash hit "Stranger In My House,", which introduced Tamia to a new audience thanks to its immensely popular dance remix, which received far more radio airplay in America than the original, nu soul-flavored album version. Rick Springfield (born Richard Lewis Springthorpe, August 23, 1949) is an Australian pop singer whose career began as a singer in Rock House, followed by Zoot, one of the most popular Australian groups of the late Sixties. Tamia (born as Tamia Washington on May 9, 1976 in Windsor, Ontario) is a Canadian R&B singer who first debuted in 1996 as a featured vocalist on Quincy Jones' single, "You Put A Move On My Heart.". Tamia (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0848637/) at the Internet Movie Database.

The Official Tamia Site (http://www.tamiaonline.com/) hosted by Elektra Records.