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Princess (bürgerlicher Name Desiree Heslop, * 27. November 1961 in London) ist eine britische Sängerin, die vor allem mit ihrem Hit Say I’m Your Number One bekannt wurde.
Desiree Heslop (born 27 November 1961), best known as Princess, is a British singer who found chart success in the mid-1980s. In the early 1980s, she worked with the group Osibisa. She is best known for her hit single "Say I'm Your Number One" which made the UK Top Ten in 1985.
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Session singer Desiree Heslop – later to take the stage name Princess – was hired by SAW to workshop some "credible" soul-pop tracks, after distinguishing herself as a backing vocalist on the Brilliant album Kiss The Lips of Life."I was a singer who had come in to do a job, and had differentiated myself on a part that the other singer wasn't gettin...
Speaking on the genesis of the track, Waterman stated he gave Mike Stock and Matt Aitken a brief to write a song that women could mime to men they were attracted to, as the song was played in nightclubs. Among the guide tracks that influenced production was "Genie" by B.B. & Q. Band. While Stock Aitken Waterman are solely credited as the writers of...
The video for the song, which featured the singer journeying around London, was designed to highlight the Britishness of the record by including cultural icons such as double-decker buses, and the singer's bowler hat.
Retrospectively, in 2020, Daniel Griffiths of musicradar.com considered "Say I'm Your Number One" as one of the five songs by SAW that producers need to hear, adding that at the time, the trio was "still malleable to whatever new style was arriving in the clubs" and "this US-influenced R'n'B electro groove might come as a SAW surprise". In 2021, Br...
"Say I'm Your Number One" was Princess' biggest hit single, and although it was the first of a run of four hit singles that the artist released with SAW, it proved to be her only top ten entry in her home-country. In the UK, it started at number 54 on 3 August 1985, climbed every week until reaching a peak of number seven for consecutive two weeks,...
The music of "Say I'm Your Number One" was interpolated with Bananarama's "A Trick of the Night" for the latter song's Number One Mix, the U.K. single remix, and related variations.
15. Aug. 2015 · Desiree Heslop, best known as Princess, is a British singer who found chart success in the mid-1980s. In the late-1970s she worked with the group Osibisa. He...
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Den Song „Say I’m Your Number One“ wollen sie eigentlich Bucks Fizz oder Dee C. Lee andrehen. Das Demo dafür singt Desiree Heslop ein – und haut mit ihrer Stimme Stock/Aitken/Waterman so von den Socken, dass sie das Lied selbst zum Hit machen darf.
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27. Juni 2017 · Here's my extended edit of "Say I'm Your Nu... A Top Ten UK pop hit in 1985 for soulful singer Princess (Desiree Heslop) and an early Stock Aitken Waterman hit.
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[Verse 1] They say I'm crazy. They say that I'm a fool. And I feel so helpless because love can be so cruel. But I'm just waiting and burning up inside. Come tomorrow. Will you still be mine? [Chorus] Say I'm your number one - your number one. Your number one. I only wanna be close to you (whoa oh) Say I'm your number one - your number one.
