ANGELA WINBUSH - 1994

Biography

Beginning as half of the successful duo, Ren‚ & Angela, Winbush has gone on to have a successful solo career in the 90s soul arena. Angela Winbush, recorded from November 1992 through April 1993, saw her gain full creative control with new label Elektra Records, and produced her best work. Premiered by the Chuck Booker-written "Treat U Rite", this dance-orientated rhythmic track was not typical of the album's more traditional R&B concerns. A better example was her duet with husband Ronald Isley (Isley Brothers) on the Philly-styled "Baby Hold On', complete with a Thom Bell string arrangement (it also included brother-in-law Ernie Isley on sitar). Winbush had already completed an album with the Isley Brothers, Smooth Sailin", for Warner Brothers Records in 1987. Another track, "Sensitive Heart", was co-written with her new family members, and Winbush also wrote material especially for the Isley Brothers, who shared her new label. However, the album's standout track was the ballad, "I'm The Kind Of Woman".

Discography:
Sharp (Mercury 1987)***, The Real Thing (Mercury 1989)***, Baby Hold On (Mercury 1990)***, Angela Winbush (Elektra 1994)**.
Track Listing
1. Treat U Right
2. Inner City Blues
3. Keep Turnin' Me On
4. Too Good to Let You Go
5. Baby Hold On - (with Ronald Isley)
6. You're My Everything
7. Dreamlover
8. Hot Summer Love
9. Sensitive Heart
10. I'm the Kind of Woman
11. Inner City Blues - (radio version)