Erin Kate Hamilton (born August 14, 1968
) is an American
dance
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and
electronic music
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singer.
Biography
The daughter of actress
Carol Burnett
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and TV producer
Joe Hamilton, she has scored several hits on the U.S.
Hot Dance Club Play
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chart. She is the youngest of her mother's three children, and the youngest of her father's 11 children.
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Prior to a dance music career, Hamilton was a member of several
jazz
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and
blues
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-influenced bands (As Is, Komba Kalla) and played at the
House of Blues
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.
Her first solo single was a
cover version
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of
Gary Wright
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's 1975 hit "
Dream Weaver
"Dream Weaver" is a song by the American singer Gary Wright, released as the first single from his third studio album '' The Dream Weaver'' in December 1975.
Origins and instrumentation
The track features Wright on vocals and keyboards and Jim ...
", released in 1998. Her debut album, ''One World'', was released the following year.
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/ref> The album also included a cover of Cheap Trick
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's hit " The Flame". To promote the album, she opened for artists such as Bette Midler
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and Whitney Houston
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.[ Billboard biography/ref> In 2008, her cover of "The Flame" was ]remix
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ed and re-released (as "The Flame 08"), and this version hit number one on the U.S. dance chart in April.
Personal life
With her husband, producer-writer Trae Carlson, Hamilton had a son, Zachary, born circa 1997. After that marriage ended, Hamilton had a relationship with Tanya Sanchez who died by suicide
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in 2001.Carol Burnett
Carol Creighton Burnett (born April 26, 1933) is an American comedian, actress, singer and writer. Burnett has played dramatic and comedic roles on stage and screen. She has received List of awards and nominations received by Carol Burnett, nu ...
and her husband, petitioned for guardianship of him.
Discography
Albums
* 1999 ''One World''
Singles
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* 1998 "Dream Weaver" (#20 U.S. dance) (#52 AUS]
See also
* List of ''Billboard'' number-one dance club songs
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References
External links
Official MySpace
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1968 births
Living people
American women singers
American dance musicians
American house musicians
Place of birth missing (living people)
Bisexual women musicians
American LGBTQ singers
American women in electronic music
20th-century American LGBTQ people
21st-century American LGBTQ people
21st-century American women
LGBTQ women singers