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Lisa Lisa Put In the Work to Make Her Own Biopic
“I pray that I’m a Puerto Rican Lena Horne — 99, 100 years old, on the stage with a blinged-out mic.”
Her 1984 breakout single, “I Wonder If I Take You Home,” was one of the earliest smashes to combine soulful vocals with electro beats in a genre that would come to be known as freestyle, named after the dancing it inspired. In a Spin of you from 1988, there’s a quote from Full Force’s Bowlegged Lou that gave me pause: “We signed her to the label itself, but it’s a stipulation in there where only we can produce her, nobody else can do it but us.” Since he was part of your management at the time, that sounds like a potential conflict of interest. Unsung is the long-running TV One series that profiles R&B, hip-hop, and other adjacent artists via interviews and clips, in a format similar to Behind the Music.
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