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Divas of Disco is a live video album recorded on April 25, 2007, at Avalon, Hollywood, performed by CeCe Peniston, Thelma Houston, Linda Clifford, A Taste of Honey and France Joli. The whole concert was issued on CD in 2010.
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Early life and education
Peniston was born in Dayton, Ohio, but spent the majority of her formative years in Phoenix, Arizona, where she was raised from the age of nine. She is the third of four siblings. The daughter of Ronald Peniston, a military veteran and Barbara Anne, she started singing at church and doing plays and musicals such as H.M.S. Pinaforein the 6th grade. She participated in local karaoke contests and singing talent shows, while taking piano lessons. She attended Trevor G. Browne High School, class o...
1990–91: Female Preacher
Her music career began in January 1991, when Felipe "DJ Wax Dawg" Delgado, her friend and a record producer based also in Phoenix, asked Peniston to record back-up vocals for Tonya Davis, a black female rapper known as Overweight Poochafter her childhood nickname. Davis, headed in a direction of a "new" Monie Love, was searching for a singer to add vocals to the title track of her album Female Preacher, which was to be released on A&M Records that summer. At a talent show she met a woman name...
1991–92: Finally
Peniston was 21 years old when her debut single "Finally" was released. The song burst on to the US club scene in the fall of 1991, where it became an instant dance anthem peaking, in October, at the top of the Billboard Hot Dance Music/Club Play for two weeks, while achieving a respectful starting position (at No. 29)overseas. After her first song climbed the international charts, Peniston was headed into the studio to record a full-length album. However, she "had two months to pull the whol...
In 1992, subsequent to the release of the debut album Finally, Peniston was briefly married to Malik Byrd, who co-wrote "Inside That I Cried" and appeared by her side also in its video. In 2003, Peniston married real estate professional Frank Martin from Halifax, Massachusetts. The couple divorced in 2011. On reality TV series Celebrity Wife Swap i...
Plastic surgery
With the exception of her formative years when she was crowned a beauty queen, Peniston was struggling with her weight constantly. "When I first got in this business, People were actually erupting in fits of laughter when I introduced myself, but I was comfortable with who I was, but that was an issue for the record company," she disclosed in 2006. "But see in this day and age where I'm at, it wouldn't be a problem for the record company, I'm going to make sure that it's not. But for somebody...
Misunderstanding with Monica
American R&B singer Monica, whose first two singles made her the youngest recording act to ever have two consecutive chart-topping hits on the U.S. BillboardTop R&B Singles chart in 1995 was interviewed by a gossip blog in 2008. The young singer outspokenly talked about her professional life, upcoming wedding as well as her past relationships. During the interview she recalled her manager-cousin Melinda asking CeCe Peniston, "who was huge at that time", if Monica could sing for her. Monica re...
LOTS alias CeCe Peniston Youth Foundation
Originally in 1997, singer, along with her friend Heather, founded the CeCe Peniston Youth Foundation to help raise funds for many other organizations, particularly those concerned with HIV/AIDS, women and children in need, hunger and the equality of mankind. After the September 11 attacks, Michael Jackson requested her presence for his "United We Stand" concert to benefit the families of 9/11. She has also blazed two tracks ("The Christmas Song" and "What a Wonderful World) on the albums Mer...
National PTA Ambassador
In October 2008, singer was along with Dara Torres named a National Ambassador for the Parent Teacher Association, which is the largest volunteer child advocacy organization with more than 5 million members. In her new role, she visited with hundreds of children across the country to reinforce the importance of an arts education and pursuing their dreams. She also joined parents and educators to work toward improving the lives of children, as well as urging families to be more involved. Follo...
Peniston has acted in theatrical productions such plays as The Wiz, Treat Her Like a Lady or When a Woman's Fed Up, and later also wrapped up shooting two independent films of the same genre (both released on Maverick Spirit in 2005). The first of them, Don't Touch If You Ain't Prayed, featured gospel music performed by Peniston herself, while the ...
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2010: Divas of Disco – Live (mit Thelma Houston, Linda Clifford, A Taste of Honey & France Joli) Singles und EPs. 1991: Finally. 1991: I Like It (& Overweight Pooch) 1992: We Got a Love Thang. 1992: Keep on Walkin’. 1992: Crazy Love. 1992: Inside That I Cried. 1993: I’m in the Mood. 1993: Searchin’ (12inch Promo) 1994: Keep Givin’ Me Your Love.
CeCe Peniston, Thelma Houston, Linda Clifford, A Taste Of Honey and France Joli - five songstresses of the stage with heavyweight voices sing the songs that made them famous and convinced a generation to don platform shoes, flares and pack the dance floor.
By the end of 19993, Peniston was named No. 1 Billboard Hot Dance Music/Club Play Artist. A series of performances and features led her to the year 2007 where CeCe stood on the stage of Avalon, Hollywood at a five star concert for Divas of Disco: Live. Performers included Thelma Houston, Linda Clifford, A Taste of Honey, France Joli, and ...
