Linear was a Latin freestyle

Freestyle music

Freestyle or Latin freestyle, sometimes referred to as Latin hip hop, is a form of electronic dance music that emerged in the early 1980s. Mostly popular during the mid 80s to the early 90s...

-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...

 trio

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Trio is generally used in any of the following ways:* A group of three musicians playing the same or different musical instrument.* The performance of a piece of music by three people.* The contrasting section of a piece in ternary form...

 from Miami

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, Florida

Florida

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.

It consisted of vocalist Charlie Pennachio, and percussionist Joey Restivo, who both hailed from New York

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, with Ecuador

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an guitarist

Guitarist

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 Wyatt Pauley. In 1990, the band

Band (music)

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 had a hit

Hit single

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 with the gold

Music recording sales certification

Music recording sales certification is a system of certifying that a music recording has shipped or sold a certain number of copies, where the threshold quantity varies by type and by nation or territory .Almost all countries follow variations of the RIAA certification categories,...

  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...

, "Sending All My Love

Sending All My Love

"Sending All My Love" is the first single released by freestyle-pop group Linear from their 1990 eponymous debut. It is their biggest hit, peaking at No. 5 in the U.S. The single was certified gold on May 18, 1990.-Track listing:...

," which was released on Atlantic Records

Atlantic Records

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 and hit number 5 on the Billboard Hot 100

Billboard Hot 100

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. Two years later, they had another hit with the single "T.L.C.," which reached number 30.

In 1990, Atlantic records released their first album, followed in 1992 by their second.

Charlie Pennachio was an original member of Dance Artist Stevie B and Producer turned Dance Artist Tolga's Miami crew band. Charlie's first CD was produced and written by himself and Tolga Katas

Tolga Katas

Tolga Katas is a Turkish entrepreneur who began his career as a rock singer and songwriter, then left the spotlight to become a behind-the-scenes independent record producer and promoter...

 and released under Futura International Records owned by Tolga and Charlie. Listener reaction was overboard and the single entered the national pop charts in the U.S. Atlantic records caught wind of the single and tracked him down, and soon signed Charlie to a recording contract."Sending All My Love" soared into the U.S. top five and earned RIAA Platinum certification.

Studio albums

Year	Album details	Chart Positions
		US 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...
1990	Linear Linear (album) -Charts:Album - Billboard Singles - Billboard... Released: March 21, 1990 Label: Atlantic Atlantic Records Atlantic Records is an American record label best known for its many recordings of rhythm and blues, rock and roll, and jazz... Label: Formats: CS Compact Cassette The Compact Cassette, often referred to as audio cassette, cassette tape, cassette, or simply tape, is a magnetic tape sound recording format. It was designed originally for dictation, but improvements in fidelity led the Compact Cassette to supplant the Stereo 8-track cartridge and reel-to-reel... , CD, LP LP album The LP, or long-playing microgroove record, is a format for phonograph records, an analog sound storage medium. Introduced by Columbia Records in 1948, it was soon adopted as a new standard by the entire record industry...	52
1992	Caught in the Middle Caught in the Middle (album) - Charts :Singles - Billboard... Released: April 28, 1992 Label: Atlantic Formats: CS, CD	—

Singles

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!width="40"|U.S.

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...

!width="40"|U.S. dance sales

Hot Dance Singles Sales

Hot Dance Singles Sales is a chart released weekly by Billboard magazine in the United States, established in 1985. It measures the sale of commercially released singles that deal with dance music and remixes...

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|align="center" rowspan="3"|1990
|align="left"|"Sending All My Love

Sending All My Love

"Sending All My Love" is the first single released by freestyle-pop group Linear from their 1990 eponymous debut. It is their biggest hit, peaking at No. 5 in the U.S. The single was certified gold on May 18, 1990.-Track listing:...

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|align="center"|5
|align="center"|8
|align="left" rowspan="3"|Linear
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|align="left"|"Don't You Come Cryin'"
|align="center"|70
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|align="left"|"Something Going On"
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|align="center"|1992
|align="left"|"T.L.C."
|align="center"|30
|align="center"|—
|align="left" rowspan="1"|Caught in the Middle
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