Jocelyn Enriquez
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Jocelyn Enriquez is a Dance-pop
singer from San Francisco. She is of Filipino
descent: her parents are from the province of Pangasinan
. She graduated from Pinole Valley High School
in 1993.
was released in 1994 on Classified Records
. The album featured two moderate chart hits with, her debut single, "I've Been Thinking About You" and "Make It Last Forever." In 1996, she moved to Tommy Boy Records
, where she released her first major hit single, "Do You Miss Me?
" in late 1996 and her second album, Jocelyn in early 1997. Jocelyn
peaked at #182 on the Billboard 200
albums chart and at #11 on the Billboard Top Heatseekers
chart.
"Do You Miss Me?
" became a Top 40 hit at dance
and pop
radio (#17 and #38 peaks, respectively), and peaked at #49 on the Hot 100. The single was also successful outside of the U.S. where it reached #7 in Singapore
and was a Top 20 Pop hit in Canada
. Its follow up, "A Little Bit Of Ecstasy" was not quite as big a radio hit, failing to cross over to the pop stations and peaking at #25 at dance radio. However, it had stronger sales than "Do You Miss Me?
" (peaking at #1 on the Hot Dance Music/Maxi-Singles Sales chart, as opposed to #8), which enabled it to reach #55 on the Billboard Hot 100
. "A Little Bit Of Ecstasy" is remembered to this day, due to its recent inclusion on the DDRMAX2
PlayStation 2
game. Pop punk
band Lucky Boys Confusion
later covered "Do You Miss Me" on their 2001 album [Throwing the Game].
Since 1997, Enriquez has had several club hits in America such as "Big Love", gaining sporadic Rhythmic format radio support, but has not received radio support or gotten sales support from the mainstream public. However, she did score another pop hit in 1998, as part of a supergroup called Stars on 54
, which consisted of Enriquez, Dutch
Eurodance
/Dance-pop
performer Amber
, and House
singer-songwriter
Ultra Nate
; the three women joined forces to cover the Gordon Lightfoot
1971 hit "If You Could Read My Mind" in disco style for the movie Studio 54
.
In 2000, she appeared on the Cindy Margolis show performing her hit "When I Get Close To You" which topped the Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart.
In 2003, Enriquez released her third album, All My Life
, and started her own record label, JEM Entertainment. Two singles were released from the album: "No Way No How" and "Why". The album's lead single, "No Way No How", became a surprise hit, faring well on Rhythmic format radio and at Dancehalls across the country. It peaked at #1 on the Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart.
She is credited as a guest vocalist on Thunderpuss
's track "So Fabulous So Fierce", which also appears in the Dance Dance Revolution
video game series.
Also credited with helping launch her career is the talented Glenn Gutierrez, a well known music producer from the Bay Area who also produced for Stevie B
in the early 1980s.
Jocelyn Enriquez is now married and a mother of three. She currently resides in San Antonio, Texas. Jocelyn will be expecting her fourth child in August 2010.
Dance-pop
Dance-pop is dance-oriented pop music that originated in the early 1980s. Developing from post-disco, it is generally up-tempo music intended for clubs with the intention of being danceable or merely dancey...
singer from San Francisco. She is of Filipino
Filipino American
Filipino Americans are Americans of Filipino ancestry. Filipino Americans, often shortened to "Fil-Ams", or "Pinoy",Filipinos in what is now the United States were first documented in the 16th century, with small settlements beginning in the 18th century...
descent: her parents are from the province of Pangasinan
Pangasinan
Pangasinan is a province of the Republic of the Philippines. The provincial capital is Lingayen. Pangasinan is located on the west central and peripheral area of the island of Luzon along the Lingayen Gulf, with the total land area being 5,368.82 square kilometers . According to the latest census,...
. She graduated from Pinole Valley High School
Pinole Valley High School
Pinole Valley High School is a high school in Pinole, California, which is located in Contra Costa County. First opened in 1967, the school is part of the West Contra Costa Unified School District. Pinole Valley High serves grades 9–12, and has approximately 1,750 students.The school is noted for...
in 1993.
Career
She started with an all girl group in high school the Pinay Divas, a reference to girl group En Vogue who were known as the Funky Divas. Her debut album, LovelyLovely (Jocelyn Enriquez album)
Lovely is the first album by singer Jocelyn Enriquez. It was released in 1994 on Classified Records. Lovely includes the hit singles "I've Been Thinking About You" , "Make It Last Forever", "Big Love" and "Only"....
was released in 1994 on Classified Records
Classified Records
2006-PresentClassified Records is currently based in San Diego, CA with CJ Harris as the CEO.With the intent to put the San Diego local music scene on the map, Harris purchased the license to Classified Records in 2006...
. The album featured two moderate chart hits with, her debut single, "I've Been Thinking About You" and "Make It Last Forever." In 1996, she moved to Tommy Boy Records
Tommy Boy Records
Tommy Boy Entertainment is an independent record label started in 1981 by Tom Silverman.-History:...
, where she released her first major hit single, "Do You Miss Me?
Do You Miss Me?
"Do You Miss Me?" is a song written by Glenn Gutierrez, performed by Jocelyn Enriquez, released in 1996 on Tommy Boy Records. "Do You Miss Me?" came about when her actual lover abruptly ended their relationship. The song became the lead single from her second album, Jocelyn released in 1997. The...
" in late 1996 and her second album, Jocelyn in early 1997. Jocelyn
Jocelyn (album)
-Charts:Album - Billboard Singles - Billboard...
peaked at #182 on the Billboard 200
Billboard 200
The Billboard 200 is a ranking of the 200 highest-selling music albums and EPs in the United States, published weekly by Billboard magazine. It is frequently used to convey the popularity of an artist or groups of artists...
albums chart and at #11 on the Billboard Top Heatseekers
Top Heatseekers
Top Heatseekers refers to either of two separate "Breaking and Entering" music charts issued weekly by Billboard Magazine: the Heatseekers Albums chart or the Heatseekers Songs chart. They were introduced by Billboard in 1993 with the purpose of highlighting the sales by new and developing musical...
chart.
"Do You Miss Me?
Do You Miss Me?
"Do You Miss Me?" is a song written by Glenn Gutierrez, performed by Jocelyn Enriquez, released in 1996 on Tommy Boy Records. "Do You Miss Me?" came about when her actual lover abruptly ended their relationship. The song became the lead single from her second album, Jocelyn released in 1997. The...
" became a Top 40 hit at dance
Dance
Dance is an art form that generally refers to movement of the body, usually rhythmic and to music, used as a form of expression, social interaction or presented in a spiritual or performance setting....
and pop
Pop music
Pop music is usually understood to be commercially recorded music, often oriented toward a youth market, usually consisting of relatively short, simple songs utilizing technological innovations to produce new variations on existing themes.- Definitions :David Hatch and Stephen Millward define pop...
radio (#17 and #38 peaks, respectively), and peaked at #49 on the Hot 100. The single was also successful outside of the U.S. where it reached #7 in Singapore
Singapore
Singapore , officially the Republic of Singapore, is a Southeast Asian city-state off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, north of the equator. An island country made up of 63 islands, it is separated from Malaysia by the Straits of Johor to its north and from Indonesia's Riau Islands by the...
and was a Top 20 Pop hit in Canada
Canada
Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
. Its follow up, "A Little Bit Of Ecstasy" was not quite as big a radio hit, failing to cross over to the pop stations and peaking at #25 at dance radio. However, it had stronger sales than "Do You Miss Me?
Do You Miss Me?
"Do You Miss Me?" is a song written by Glenn Gutierrez, performed by Jocelyn Enriquez, released in 1996 on Tommy Boy Records. "Do You Miss Me?" came about when her actual lover abruptly ended their relationship. The song became the lead single from her second album, Jocelyn released in 1997. The...
" (peaking at #1 on the Hot Dance Music/Maxi-Singles Sales chart, as opposed to #8), which enabled it to reach #55 on the Billboard Hot 100
Billboard Hot 100
The Billboard Hot 100 is the United States music industry standard singles popularity chart issued weekly by Billboard magazine. Chart rankings are based on radio play and sales; the tracking-week for sales begins on Monday and ends on Sunday, while the radio play tracking-week runs from Wednesday...
. "A Little Bit Of Ecstasy" is remembered to this day, due to its recent inclusion on the DDRMAX2
DDRMAX2: Dance Dance Revolution
DDRMAX2 Dance Dance Revolution is the fifth home version of Dance Dance Revolution to be released in the United States. It was released by Konami on September 23, 2003, for the Sony PlayStation 2 video game console...
PlayStation 2
PlayStation 2
The PlayStation 2 is a sixth-generation video game console manufactured by Sony as part of the PlayStation series. Its development was announced in March 1999 and it was first released on March 4, 2000, in Japan...
game. Pop punk
Pop punk
Pop punk is a fusion music genre that combines elements of punk rock with pop music, to varying degrees. Allmusic describes the genre as a strand of alternative rock, which typically merges pop melodies with speedy punk tempos, chord changes and loud guitars...
band Lucky Boys Confusion
Lucky Boys Confusion
Lucky Boys Confusion is a rock band from the Chicago suburbs in DuPage County. Their music is a mix of rock, punk, ska, and hip hop. The band consists of bassist Jason Schultejann, drummer Ryan Fergus, vocalist Kaustubh Pandav, guitarist/vocalist Adam Krier, and guitarist Joe Sell...
later covered "Do You Miss Me" on their 2001 album [Throwing the Game].
Since 1997, Enriquez has had several club hits in America such as "Big Love", gaining sporadic Rhythmic format radio support, but has not received radio support or gotten sales support from the mainstream public. However, she did score another pop hit in 1998, as part of a supergroup called Stars on 54
Stars on 54
Stars on 54 were a supergroup put together to record the song "If You Could Read My Mind" for the soundtrack of the 1998 film, 54, which starred Mike Myers as Steve Rubell, owner of the Studio 54 nightclub...
, which consisted of Enriquez, Dutch
Netherlands
The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...
Eurodance
Eurodance
Eurodance is a genre of electronic dance music that originated in the late 1980s or early 1990s primarily in Europe. It combines many elements from House, Techno, Hi-NRG and especially Italo-Disco...
/Dance-pop
Dance-pop
Dance-pop is dance-oriented pop music that originated in the early 1980s. Developing from post-disco, it is generally up-tempo music intended for clubs with the intention of being danceable or merely dancey...
performer Amber
Amber (performer)
Marie-Claire "Amber" Cremers is a Dutch-German singer, songwriter, label owner and executive producer. She is best known for her hits "This Is Your Night," "If You Could Read My Mind," and "Sexual ."-Career:Amber's music career took off when one of her demos, "This Is Your Night" gained interest...
, and House
House music
House music is a genre of electronic dance music that originated in Chicago, Illinois, United States in the early 1980s. It was initially popularized in mid-1980s discothèques catering to the African-American, Latino American, and gay communities; first in Chicago circa 1984, then in other...
singer-songwriter
Singer-songwriter
Singer-songwriters are musicians who write, compose and sing their own musical material including lyrics and melodies. As opposed to contemporary popular music singers who write their own songs, the term singer-songwriter describes a distinct form of artistry, closely associated with the...
Ultra Nate
Ultra Naté
Ultra Naté is an American house music, Dance-pop and sometimes R&B musician who has achieved a respectable amount of success on the pop charts with songs such as "Free" and "If You Could Read My Mind" as part of Stars on 54....
; the three women joined forces to cover the Gordon Lightfoot
Gordon Lightfoot
Gordon Meredith Lightfoot, Jr. is a Canadian singer-songwriter who achieved international success in folk, folk-rock, and country music, and has been credited for helping define the folk-pop sound of the 1960s and 1970s...
1971 hit "If You Could Read My Mind" in disco style for the movie Studio 54
Studio 54
Studio 54 was a highly popular discotheque from 1977 until 1991, located at 254 West 54th Street in Manhattan, New York, USA. It was originally the Gallo Opera House, opening in 1927, after which it changed names several times, eventually becoming a CBS radio and television studio. In 1977 it...
.
In 2000, she appeared on the Cindy Margolis show performing her hit "When I Get Close To You" which topped the Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart.
In 2003, Enriquez released her third album, All My Life
All My Life (Jocelyn Enriquez album)
All My Life is the third album by singer Jocelyn Enriquez. It was released on February 11, 2003 on Jocelyn's own label, JEM Entertainment. All My Life includes the hit singles, "No Way No How" and "Why."-Track listing:-Charts:...
, and started her own record label, JEM Entertainment. Two singles were released from the album: "No Way No How" and "Why". The album's lead single, "No Way No How", became a surprise hit, faring well on Rhythmic format radio and at Dancehalls across the country. It peaked at #1 on the Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart.
She is credited as a guest vocalist on Thunderpuss
Thunderpuss
Thunderpuss was the remix/productionteam of music producers Barry Harris and Chris Cox. Harris had previously worked as part of several music groups including Kon Kan, Top Kat, Killer Bunnies and Outta Control and had also released several singles himself...
's track "So Fabulous So Fierce", which also appears in the Dance Dance Revolution
Dance Dance Revolution
Dance Dance Revolution, abbreviated DDR, and previously known as Dancing Stage in Europe and Australasia, is a music video game series produced by Konami. Introduced in Japan in 1998 as part of the Bemani series, and released in North America and Europe in 1999, Dance Dance Revolution is the...
video game series.
Also credited with helping launch her career is the talented Glenn Gutierrez, a well known music producer from the Bay Area who also produced for Stevie B
Stevie B
Stevie B is an American singer, songwriter, and record producer who was influential in the Latin freestyle and High-Energy, mostly from Miami dance music scene of the late 1980s...
in the early 1980s.
Jocelyn Enriquez is now married and a mother of three. She currently resides in San Antonio, Texas. Jocelyn will be expecting her fourth child in August 2010.
Discography
- Lovely (1994)
- JocelynJocelyn (album)-Charts:Album - Billboard Singles - Billboard...
(1997) - All My Life (2003)
See also
- List of number-one dance hits (United States)
- List of artists who reached number one on the US Dance chart