Lisa Lisa: Biography

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• Full Force
• U.T.F.O.
• Pretty Tony

• Janet Jackson

• Brooklyn Funk Essentials

• Curtis Bedeau
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• Joe Moskowitz
• Giovanni Salah

Formed:

Jan 1, 1985

Disbanded:

Jan 1, 1991

Genres:

Electronic & Dance Music, Disco Music, Freestyle Music, R&B and Soul Music, Rock Music, Club Dance Music, Dance Pop Music

Decades Active:

1980's|1990's

Artistic Quality

Low

Cultural Impact

Low

Popularity

Low

Ratings Guide

Based in Brooklyn, vocalist Lisa Lisa (born Lisa Velez) and her supporting band Cult Jam (Mike Hughes and Alex "Spanador" Mosley) were one of the most consistent pop-funk/RB groups of the mid-'80s. Hughes and Mosley were also members of Full Force, the funk group that performed and produced the majority of Lisa Lisa Cult Jam's albums.

Lisa Lisa Cult Jam recorded their debut single, "I Wonder If I Take You Home," soon after forming in 1985, releasing it as an independent single. The group quickly signed to Columbia Records, which re-released the single; it climbed into the RB Top Ten and the U.K. Top 20. The group amassed a number of hit songs throughout the '80s, yet by the end of the decade their success had begun to dry up; they disbanded after 1991's Straight Outta Hell's Kitchen. Lisa Lisa embarked on a solo career, releasing the commercially unsuccessful LL 77 in 1993.

- Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Music Guide