Karen Gordon, better known by her stage name Dajae (), is a female
R&B and
dance music
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singer born in
Chicago, Illinois
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.
Biography
Dajae sang in various soul bands for over a decade prior to working with
house music
House is a genre of electronic dance music characterized by a repetitive Four on the floor (music), four-on-the-floor beat and a typical tempo of 115–130 beats per minute. It was created by DJs and music producers from Chicago's underground ...
producer
Cajmere, who featured her on his 1992 single "Brighter Days", which peaked at number two for two weeks on the American dance chart. "Time", "U Got Me Up" and "Is It All Over My Face" were also hit singles. Her only album, ''Higher Power'' (1995), released on Cajual Records, followed. In 1996, her hit "
Day by Day" hit No. 1 on the
Hot Dance Music/Club Play
The Dance Club Songs (also known as National Disco Action, Hot Dance/Disco Club Play, and Hot Dance Club Play) was a chart published weekly between 1976 and 2020 by ''Billboard'' magazine. It used club disc jockeys set lists to determine the mos ...
chart.
She also collaborated on club hits with
Barbara Tucker
Barbara Tucker (born March 19, 1967), is an American house and soul singer, songwriter and choreographer born in Brooklyn, New York, US. Tucker had six No. 1 hits on the US Hot Dance Club Songs chart in the 1990s and into the 2000s, and severa ...
,
Ultra Naté
Ultra Naté (born March 20, 1968) is an American singer, songwriter, record producer, DJ, and promoter who has achieved success on the pop charts with songs such as "Free (Ultra Naté song), Free", "If You Could Read My Mind" (as part of Stars o ...
,
Moné,
Full Intention
Full Intention are an English house music duo consisting of Michael Gray and Jon Pearn. They are best known as prolific producers and remixers. They have reworked songs for varied artists such as the Sugababes, Whitney Houston, Mariah Carey a ...
and
Junior Sanchez.
References
See also
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List of number-one dance hits (United States)
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List of artists who reached number one on the US Dance chart
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American dance musicians
American house musicians
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
American women in electronic music
21st-century American women
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