Stacy Lattisaw

April 13, 2010

Stacy Lattisaw

When she was a teenager in the early 1980s, Lattisaw had a string of Top 40 R&B hits, with several songs — "Let Me Be Your Angel," "Jump to the Beat", "Love on a Two-Way Street" and "Miracles" — crossing over to the pop mainstream. Lattisaw recorded her first album for Cotillion Records at the age of 12 in 1979, under the direction of record producer Van McCoy. However it was not until she affiliated with Narada Michael Walden, a former drummer with the Mahavishnu Orchestra who was just beginning a career as a producer, that she became a star. Under Walden's direction, she had five hit albums between 1981 and 1986. From her album of 1982 , Sneakin' Out, Mariah Carey took a sample of the song "Attack Of The Name Game" for her song Heartbreaker. She continued recording into the late 1980s, signing to Motown in 1986, but her audience slowly disappeared. By the early 1990s, she decided to retire from the music industry and concentrate on raising her family. However, her official website states that she is now working on a gospel CD. ( wikipedia.org )

Stacy Lattisaw is working on an inspirational project. "I'm working on a gospel CD, finally," she says. "My priorities began to change, and then I met my husband. I took a long break and have been raising my kids, and that kept me really busy. I have a son and a daughter, and they’re 7 and 11 years old. But now, I'm about to start recording, and we're going to do the CD ourselves and put it out ourselves." Lattisaw is married to music producer/songwriter Kevin Jackson, who penned the Tanya Blount hit 'Through the Rain,' and the two own a successful state-of-the-art recording studio called Night Flight in Fort Washington, Md. Ginuwine, Gladys Knight, Lil' Jon, Gerald Levert and gospel artist Deitrick Haddon are just a few of the artists who've recorded at Night Flight. ( mcgillismusic.com )