Joyce Sims

Joyce Sims (born August 6, 1959 in Rochester , New York ) is an American singer , pianist and songwriter who was mainly active in the 1980s. Her greatest successes are the album Come into My Life and the single of the same name from 1987, with which she was able to place herself at the top of the charts in the USA and Europe. Musically, she moves in the field of black music , between jazz and hip-hop .

biography

Joyce Sims attended college and studied music, as well as learning to play various instruments , including the piano . Besides school, she worked in a fast food - restaurant and wrote his first songs. Through a friend she met Aron Resnick, the owner of an independent label called Sleeping Bag Records.

After a club tour along the east coast , Sims worked with Curtis Mantronik aka Mantronix . This cooperation resulted in the 1987 debut album Come into My Life , from which the hit single of the same name , its predecessor All and All and Lifetime Love and its successor Walk a Way were released. Sims' last chart hit so far was Looking for a Love (1989), a song from the album All About Love . Despite various publications, Joyce Sims could not build on earlier successes. Only after a break of almost twenty years did another album, A New Beginning , appear in 2006 .

Discography

Studio albums

year	Title music label	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, music label , placements, weeks, awards, notes)				Remarks
year	Title music label	DE	CH	UK	R&B	Remarks
1987	Come into My Life Sleeping Bag 10	DE14 (16 weeks) DE	CH19 (5 weeks) CH	UK5 gold (24 weeks)UK	R&B22 (27 weeks) R&B	First published: December 1987 Producer: Kurtis Mantronik
1989	All About Love Sleeping Bag 52017	-	-	UK64 (1 week) UK	R&B65 (10 weeks) R&B	First published: September 1989 Producer: Joyce Sims

More studio albums

2006: A New Beginning (Vessel Entertainment; release: July 25th)
2015: Love Song (August Rose Records; Release: August 31)

Compilations

2008: Come into My Life: Her Greatest Hits (Acrobat Music)
2009: Come into My Life: The Very Best Of ( Music Club Deluxe )

Singles

year	Title album	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes)					Remarks
year	Title album	DE	CH	UK	R&B	Dance	Remarks
1986	(You Are My) All and All Come into My Life	-	-	UK16 (11 weeks) UK	R&B69 (12 weeks) R&B	Dance6 (14 weeks) Dance	First published: February 1986 Author: Joyce Sims
1987	Lifetime Love Come into My Life	-	-	UK34 (6 weeks) UK	R&B23 (16 weeks) R&B	Dance10 (11 weeks) Dance	First published: May 1987 Author: Joyce Sims
1987	Come into My Life Come into My Life	DE4 (18 weeks) DE	CH7 (12 weeks) CH	UK7 (10 weeks) UK	R&B10 (18 weeks) R&B	Dance48 (1 week) Dance	First published: November 1987 Author: Joyce Sims
1988	Walk a Way / Walkaway (US) Come into My Life	DE32 (8 weeks) DE	-	UK24 (6 weeks) UK	R&B56 (9 weeks) R&B	Dance11 (9 weeks) Dance	First published: April 1988 Author: Joyce Sims
1988	Love Makes a Woman Come into My Life	-	-	UK85 (2 weeks) UK	R&B29 (11 weeks) R&B	-	First release: April 1988 feat. Jimmy Castor Authors: Carl Davis, Eugene Record, Sonny Sanders Original: Barbara Acklin , 1968
1989	Looking for a Love All About Love	-	-	UK39 (4 weeks) UK	R&B51 (10 weeks) R&B	-	First published: May 1989 Author: Joyce Sims
1989	Take Caution with My Heart All About Love	-	-	UK92 (2 weeks) UK	-	-	First published: October 1989 Author: Joyce Sims
1990	All About Love All About Love	-	-	-	R&B69 (8 weeks) R&B	Dance34 (5 weeks) Dance	First published: December 1989 Author: Joyce Sims
1995	Come into My Life (Remix)	-	-	UK72 (2 weeks) UK	-	-	First published: May 1995 Remixes: Simon Harris, Graeme Park, Jerry Gottus
2004	Come into My Life (Remixes) A New Beginning	-	-	-	-	Dance5 (13 weeks) Dance	First published: May 2004 Remixes: Andy Funk, Benjamin Deffe, Supaflyas, Sanz
2006	What the World Needs Now A New Beginning	-	-	-	-	Dance14 (12 weeks) Dance	First published: September 2006 Remixes: Friscia & Lamboy, Junior Vasquez , Joyce Sims

More singles

1987: Come into My Life Rap (Admiros feat.Joyce Sims)
1994: Who's Crying Now?
2004: Praise His Name

swell

↑ ^a ^b Chart sources: DE CH UK US
↑ ^a ^b UK gold / platinum database
^ Joel Whitburn : Top R&B Albums 1965–1998, ISBN 0-89820-134-9 .
^ Joel Whitburn : Hot R&B Songs 1942–2010: 6th Edition, ISBN 978-0-89820-186-4 .
^ Joel Whitburn : Hot Dance / Disco 1974-2003, ISBN 978-0-89820-156-7 .

Web links

personal data
SURNAME	Sims, Joyce
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American singer, pianist and songwriter
DATE OF BIRTH	August 6, 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH	Rochester , New York , United States

[charts-1] Chart sources: DE CH UK US

[gold-2] UK gold / platinum database

[3] Joel Whitburn : Top R&B Albums 1965–1998, ISBN 0-89820-134-9 .

[4] Joel Whitburn : Hot R&B Songs 1942–2010: 6th Edition, ISBN 978-0-89820-186-4 .

[5] Joel Whitburn : Hot Dance / Disco 1974-2003, ISBN 978-0-89820-156-7 .