Erin Hamilton is an American

United States

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 electronic dance music

Electronic dance music

Electronic dance music is electronic music produced primarily for the purposes of use within a nightclub setting, or in an environment that is centered upon dance-based entertainment...

 singer. The daughter of actress Carol Burnett

Carol Burnett

Carol Creighton Burnett is an American actress, comedian, singer, dancer and writer. Burnett started her career in New York. After becoming a hit on Broadway, she made her television debut...

 and TV Producer Joe Hamilton

Joe Hamilton (producer)

Joseph Henry Hamilton was an American television producer and actor.Beginning his career as a comedian, Hamilton was spotted by actress Carol Burnett. He worked with her on the short-lived CBS variety show The Entertainers and her long-running eponymous series as executive producer and composer of...

, she has scored several hits on the U.S. Hot Dance Club Play

Hot Dance Club Play

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 chart. She is the youngest of eleven siblings.

Prior to a dance music career, Hamilton was a member of several jazz

Jazz

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 and blues

Blues

Blues is the name given to both a musical form and a music genre that originated in African-American communities of primarily the "Deep South" of the United States at the end of the 19th century from spirituals, work songs, field hollers, shouts and chants, and rhymed simple narrative ballads...

-inflenced bands (As Is, Komba Kalla) and played at the House of Blues

House of Blues

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. Her first solo single was a cover version

Cover version

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 of Gary Wright

Gary Wright

Gary Malcolm Wright is an American musician, best known for his song, "Dream Weaver". He was the piano player on Harry Nilsson's version of "Without You".-Early life:...

's 1975 hit "Dream Weaver

Dream Weaver (song)

"Dream Weaver" is a song by Gary Wright that was a hit single in the US, reaching #2 in the Billboard charts while it reached #1 in the Cash Box charts in 1976. Taken from the album The Dream Weaver released the previous year, it features Wright on vocals and keyboards, and Jim Keltner on drums...

", released in 1998. Her debut album, One World, was released the following year. The album also included a cover of Cheap Trick

Cheap Trick

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's hit "The Flame

The Flame (Cheap Trick song)

"The Flame" is a hit power ballad by Cheap Trick, released on July 25, 1988. The song was first offered to English singer Elkie Brooks, who turned it down. Written by Bob Mitchell and Nick Graham, the song was initially released on Cheap Trick's Lap of Luxury album...

". To promote the album she opened for artists such as Bette Midler

Bette Midler

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 and Whitney Houston

Whitney Houston

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.

In 2008, her cover of "The Flame" was remix

Remix

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ed and re-released (as "The Flame 08") and this version hit number one on the U.S. dance chart in April.

Personal life

Hamilton has been openly involved with both men and women. In 2001, her girlfriend committed suicide

Suicide

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, which led to a years-long recording hiatus. Hamilton has two sons, Zach (born in 1997) and Dylan (born in 2006).

Singles

• 1998 "Dream Weaver" (#20 U.S. dance)
• 1999 "The Flame" (#12 U.S. dance)
• 1999 "Satisfied" (#47 U.S. dance)
• 2000 "The Temple" (#42 U.S. dance)
• 2002 "I Got the Music in Me" (#17 U.S. dance)
• 2008 "The Flame 08" (#1 U.S. dance)
• 2008 "Control Yourself" (#1 U.S. dance)

See also

• List of No. 1 dance hits (United States)
• List of artists who reached number one on the U.S. dance chart