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Shawn Christopher is a female African-American house-music singer from Chicago, Illinois. ==Career== She was a touring backing vocalist for R&B singer, Chaka Khan, from 1982 to 1985. She was also a member of the industrial dance band known as My Life With the Thrill Kill Kult, and sang with the group Sonia Dada. She is the sister of the R&B singer, keyboardist, and producer Gavin Christopher. She sang the lead vocals on a song by deejay and record producer Lil Louis titled "French Kiss" in 1989. The song became a #1 hit on the ''Billboard'' Hot Dance Club Play chart that year. During the 1990s, she also scored three #1 singles on the Hot Dance Club Play chart in her own right: "Another Sleepless Night", in 1991 (which also reached #67 on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 chart, and #50 on the UK Singles Chart); "Don't Lose the Magic", in 1992 (which peaked at #71 on the Hot 100, and UK chart #30〔); and "Sweet Freedom", in 1998. In addition, she sang backing vocals on Jimmy Somerville's #1 Hot Dance Club Play track from 1995, "Heartbeat". She also recorded a song titled "Thinking About the Way" in the early 1990s and reached #57 in the UK in 1994 with "Make My Love".〔 In 1997, the American garage/house act Dem2 sampled portions of "Another Sleepless Night" for their UK release "Destiny (Sleepless)."〔("Dem 2 - Destiny (Original Mix)" ) from YouTube〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Shawn Christopher」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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