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Samantha Marie Sprackling more commonly known as Saffron, is the lead singer of the electronica band, Republica. She was also an actress at one... point, performing for two years in London's Starlight Express, and appearing in the video for the Chesney Hawkes hit The One and Only and, as a dancer, in the video for N-Joi's single "Mindflux". Following the breakup of Republica, she worked with The Cure, appearing on the track "Just Say Yes"; having previously been the featured vocalist on N-Joi's 1990 single "Anthem"; The Prodigy's "Fuel My Fire" ; Deepsky's "Smile" ; Jeff Beck's "Pork-U-Pine" and Junkie XL's songs "Crusher", "Spirits", and "Beauty Never Fades" . As of 2010, Republica have got back together and released a re-recording of their 1996 hit “Ready to Go” on June 7, 2010. She and Republica planned to have an Autumn Tour and a series of events in October 2010. Saffron is of Portuguese, Chinese and British descent.
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Helen Folasade Adu OBE , is a British singer-songwriter, composer, and record producer. She first achieved success in the 1980s as the frontwoman and... lead vocalist of the Brit and Grammy Award winning English group Sade. Sade was born in Ibadan, Oyo State, Nigeria. Her middle name, Folasade, means honour confers your crown. Her parents, Adebisi Adu, a Nigerian lecturer in economics of Yoruba background, and Anne Hayes, an English district nurse, met in London, married in 1955 and moved to Nigeria. Later, when the marriage ran into difficulties, Anne Hayes returned to England, taking four-year-old Sade and her older brother Banji to live with her parents. When Sade was 11, she moved to Holland-on-Sea to live with her mother, and after completing school at 18 she moved to London and studied at the Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design. While in college, she joined a soul band, Pride, in which she sang backing vocals.
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Jessica Wagner is a singer who started her career in clubs and venues in the south. She is a friend of Bo Bice, an American Idol finalist. She toured... with his band, Sugar Money. Following this tour she auditioned and became one of the vocalists with the reformed Chic, performing with the band at the Montreux Jazz Festival, The Grammys and the Roskilde Rock Festival. She has sung with Patti Labelle, Sir Elton John, Peter Gabriel, the Pointer Sisters, Bebe Winans, Leela James, amongst others. She is currently backing vocals with Kid Rock since 2007. Jessica also has her own band, Envy, a mixture of rock, pop, and soul. Jessica is a fan of Led Zeppelin, the Allman Brothers, Alicia Keys, Coldplay, Chris Cornell, Kings of Convenience, Damien Rice and Aretha Franklin.
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