Yazz

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Yazz (* 19th May 1960 in Shepherd's Bush , London as Yasmin Evans ) is a British singer , keyboard player and song writer .

Life

Yasmin Evans began her musical career in the late 1970s as a singer in the band Biz. The daughter of a Jamaican and a British woman then worked as a model for several years before joining the Coldcut group in 1987 . Doctorin 'the House was established in early 1988, a top 10 - hit in the UK and a top 20 hit in Germany .

In mid-1988 she started a solo career. Right at the start she achieved her greatest success with The Only Way Is Up , a cover version of the 1980 song by Otis Clay . The song, which combined elements of pop and house , became a number one hit in the UK and ranked number three on the German charts . Other top 10 singles were Stand Up for Your Love Rights and Fine Time . With Where Has All the Love Gone? and Treat Me Good , Yazz reached top 20 positions in the UK charts in 1989 and 1990.

By spring 1997, six other singles entered the British charts, although they only made it to middle positions. Among them was the title How Long , published in mid-1993 , a collaboration with the British reggae band Aswad , which also became a chart hit in Germany. Four follow-up singles rose to the UK charts, but it was no longer enough for top positions. Later publications went largely unnoticed.

Discography

Albums

year title Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements
(Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes) 		Remarks
DE DE CH CH UK UK
1988 Wanted DE35 (16 weeks)
DE 		CH19 (3 weeks)
CH 		UK3
Double platinum
× 2
Double platinum

(30 weeks)UK
First published: November 1988
1989 The 'Wanted' Remixes! - - UK53 (2 weeks)
UK
First published: November 1989

More albums

  • 1992: One True Woman
  • 1994: One on One
  • 1997: The Natural Life
  • 2001: At Her Very Best and All the Greatest Hits (compilation)
  • 2002: Tribute to Burt Bacharach and Hal David
  • 2008: Running Back to You
  • 2011: This Is Love

Singles

year Title
album 		Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements
(Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes) 		Remarks
DE DE AT AT CH CH UK UK US US Dance Dance
1988 Doctorin 'the House
What's That Noise? 		- - - UK6th
gold
gold

(9 weeks)UK 		- Dance3 (10 weeks)
Dance
First release: February 1988
Coldcut feat. Yazz and the Plastic Population
The Only Way Is Up
Wanted 		DE3 (19 weeks)
DE 		AT5 (12 weeks)
AT 		CH2 (14 weeks)
CH 		UK1 (15 weeks)
UK 		US96 (4 weeks)
US 		Dance2 (10 weeks)
Dance
First published: July 1988
as Yazz and the Plastic Population
Stand Up for Your Love Rights
Wanted 		DE10 (16 weeks)
DE 		AT29 (2 weeks)
AT 		CH7 (8 weeks)
CH 		UK2
silver
silver

(13 weeks)UK 		- Dance5 (8 weeks)
Dance
First published: October 1988
1989 Fine Time
Wanted 		DE32 (9 weeks)
DE 		- CH25 (1 week)
CH 		UK9 (8 weeks)
UK 		- -
First published: January 1989
Where Has All the Love Gone?
Wanted 		DE40 (6 weeks)
DE 		- - UK16 (6 weeks)
UK 		- -
First published: March 1989
1990 Treat me good DE55 (9 weeks)
DE 		- CH28 (1 week)
CH 		UK20 (5 weeks)
UK 		- Dance7 (9 weeks)
Dance
First published: June 1990
1992 One true woman - - - UK60 (2 weeks)
UK 		- -
First published: March 1992
1993 How Long
One on One 		DE52 (8 weeks)
DE 		- - UK31 (5 weeks)
UK 		- -
First published: July 1993
with Aswad
1994 Have Mercy
One on One 		DE86 (5 weeks)
DE 		- - UK42 (4 weeks)
UK 		- -
First published: March 1994
Everybody's Got to Learn Sometime
One on One 		- - - UK56 (3 weeks)
UK 		- -
First published: June 1994
1996 Good Thing Going
The Natural Life 		- - - UK53 (2 weeks)
UK 		- -
First published: September 1996
1997 Never Can Say Goodbye
The Natural Life 		- - - UK61 (6 weeks)
UK 		- -
First published: March 1997
1998 Abandon me - - - UK78 (1 week)
UK 		- -
First published: 1996

More singles

  • 1989: Wanted on the Floor Remix (12 "Promo)
  • 1990: Yazz's Megamix
  • 2001: Love Hangover
  • 2009: The Only Way Is Up (Remixes)

literature

  • Frank Laufenberg: Frank Laufenberg's rock and pop lexicon . Volume 2. ISBN 3-612-26207-6 .

swell

  1. ↑ a b Chart sources: DE AT CH UK Billboard Hot 100 Billboard Dance
  2. ↑ Gold / platinum database UK
  3. ^ Joel Whitburn : Hot Dance / Disco 1974-2003, ISBN 978-0-89820-156-7 .

Web links

personal data
SURNAME Yazz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Evans, Yasmin (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British singer, keyboardist and songwriter
DATE OF BIRTH May 19, 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH Shepherd's Bush , London