Driza Bone is a international

International

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 dance music

Dance music

Dance music is music composed specifically to facilitate or accompany dancing. It can be either a whole musical piece or part of a larger musical arrangement...

 / remix

Remix

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ing musical ensemble

Musical ensemble

A musical ensemble is a group of people who perform instrumental or vocal music. In classical music, trios or quartets either blend the sounds of musical instrument families or group together instruments from the same instrument family, such as string ensembles or wind ensembles...

, led by the record producer

Record producer

A record producer is an individual working within the music industry, whose job is to oversee and manage the recording of an artist's music...

s / musician

Musician

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s, Billy April and Vincent Garcia. They used various female vocalists

Singing

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 to provide the vocal

Human voice

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 element to their output. Driza Bone (sometimes billed as Drizabone) were primarily popular in the early 1990s. They were named after the Driza-Bone

Driza-Bone

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 brand of waterproof riding coats.

Career

The most successful remix single

Single (music)

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 was of the American

United States

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 R&B

Rhythm and blues

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 singer

Singing

Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice, and augments regular speech by the use of both tonality and rhythm. One who sings is called a singer or vocalist. Singers perform music known as songs that can be sung either with or without accompaniment by musical instruments...

 Shanice

Shanice

Shanice Lorraine Wilson-Knox , better known as Shanice, is a Grammy-nominated American R&B/soul singer-songwriter. She scored two Top 5 Billboard hit single's "I Love Your Smile" in 1991, and "Saving Forever for You" in 1993. In 1999, Shanice scored another top hit song, "When I Close My Eyes"...

's 1991 single

Single (music)

In music, a single or record single is a type of release, typically a recording of fewer tracks than an LP or a CD. This can be released for sale to the public in a variety of different formats. In most cases, the single is a song that is released separately from an album, but it can still appear...

, "I Love Your Smile

I Love Your Smile

"I Love Your Smile" is a song recorded by R&B singer Shanice and released in 1991 as the first single from her album Inner Child. The song features saxophonist Branford Marsalis. It met success in many countries, including U.S., where it reached #2 on the Billboard Hot 100 and number one on the...

". It surpassed the success of the original track, reaching #2 on both the U.S. Billboard Hot 100

Billboard Hot 100

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 and the UK Singles Chart

UK Singles Chart

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Driza Bone's most popular track, as an artist, was the song "Real Love", which reached #16 on the UK Singles Chart in June 1991, before they had remixed "I Love Your Smile". At the time of the single, Drizabone were mainstays April and Garcia, plus vocalist Sophie Jones. Jones had performed the original demo

Demo (music)

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 versions of the song

Song

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, but was not really interested in a musical career, and Dee Heron (b. Jamaica

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, West Indies) gave up her secretary's job to take over her role. The follow-up hit

Hit record

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 was "Catch the Fire" (UK #54). They filled their time by performing production/remix duties for Lindy Layton ("Without You (One and One)"), Alison Limerick

Alison Limerick

Alison T. Limerick is a British singer.She began her music career as a backing vocalist in the mid 1980s, after attending the London Contemporary School of Dance. Her work appeared on The Style Council's 1985 album, Our Favourite Shop. In 1989 she made a brief appearance as an African sorceress in...

, Lisa Stansfield

Lisa Stansfield

Lisa Stansfield is an English singer and songwriter.-Early years:Stansfield was born to Marion and Keith Stansfield in Heywood, Lancashire, in England, where she attended Redbrook School, Rochdale. Her first television appearance was on a talent programme in the Granada TV area in 1982...

 ("Change

Change (Lisa Stansfield song)

"Change" is the first single from Lisa Stansfield's album, Real Love, and was released in October 1991. It achieved major success in the UK, peaking at number 10, but only moderate success in other European countries, but it also topped the Billboard Hot Dance Club Play in the U.S...

"), Kylie Minogue, and the aforementioned Shanice.

They eventually met the Atlanta

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, Georgia

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 based singer Kymberley Peer (b. Detroit, Michigan

Michigan

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), who had formerly worked with Howard Hewitt and Freddie Jackson

Freddie Jackson

Frederick Anthony "Freddie" Jackson is an American soul singer. He was an important figure in R&B during the 1980s and early 1990s...

. She was also a partly established actress, having appeared alongside Marvin Winans

Marvin Winans

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 and Vanessa Bell Armstrong

Vanessa Bell Armstrong

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 in the musical

Musical theatre

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, Don't Get Got Started. She was on hand to record Drizabone's first single in three years, "Pressure", which prefaced their long awaited debut album. Thus followed "Pressure" (UK #33), "Brightest Star" (UK #45), and a re-release of "Real Love" in 1995 (UK #24, their biggest hit since the original version of the track). Driza Bone also had a charting

Record chart

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 album in 1994, titled Conspiracy, which debuted and peaked at #72 on the UK Albums Chart

UK Albums Chart

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 in November of that year. All of their chart successes were released on the Fourth & Broadway record label

Record label

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In 2010, Billy April, now credited under his real name Billy Freeman, revived the project under the name The Drizabone Soul Family, releasing an album titled All the Way with a new line-up of vocalists.

Singles

• "Real Love" (1991) UK #16
• "Catch the Fire" (1991) UK #54
• "Pressure" (1994) UK #33
• "Brightest Star" (1994) UK #45
• "Real Love" (re-release) (1995) UK #24