That skinny bitch who pretended to be the singer of Black Box

She's lip-syncing most of that performance and singing along with the rest.

I love Black Box but they forgot to turn off her mic!

Totally forgot about this travesty!!

Martha Wash has one of the greatest voices ever. Her weight forced her into the background--she should have been a bigger star

Worse than I imagined.

Martha also sang the chorus to "Everybody Dance Now" from C+C Music Factory. I think another singer lip synched to her vocals on that track as well.

Dreadful. She didn't know her mic was on! No way she would have attempted to sing along. She thought she was lip-synching.

Where are they at???

Physically, and talent-wise, she reminds me of Fabrice Morvan of Milli Vanilli... which isn't a bit surprising.

That was my first thought too R8, lol.

Martha Wash is also the voice on Seduction's debut hit single "You're My One and Only True Love." Her vocal was somewhat altered for the video but on the CD version there is no doubt. Seduction was April Harris, Idalis Leon (MTV host) and Michelle Visage (Rupaul sidekick). Seduction did its own vocals (kinda) on the rest of its CD and its pretty good.

Shr-iiii-eeeeeek!!!

Ooops. Forgot to link to the article in Rolling Stone that was just posted today - on Martha.

This was what made me all WTF!!! at that hideous caterwauling from that skinny bitch.

The "skinny bitch" has a name: Catrin.

Here is her debut, the #1 1990 single in the UK, "Ride on Time."

It's titled "ride" because the stupid Italians who "sampled" (really, stole) Loleatta Holloway's vocal couldn't hear the word "right" correctly.

How horrid! This is so embarrassing!

Interesting bit from that Rolling Stone article:

[quote]In 1981, songwriter Paul Jabara, who had written Donna Summer's 1978 disco hit "Last Dance," called his arranger Paul Shaffer — still one year from becoming David Letterman's musical director — and gave him the title of a new disco-pop song he was working on for Summer. "I heard the title and said, 'I'll be right over,'" Shaffer tells Rolling Stone. "Paul was openly gay and said to me, and I'm quoting him here, 'The faggots'll love it.' He knew Donna Summer's audience was a gay club audience, so let's give them what they want." The song's concept about men falling from the sky was rejected, however, by the newly religious Summer partly because it included the words "Hallelujah" and "Amen."

I liked it!

Gorgeous.

I don't see what the issue is.

So what?

Interestingly, Zelma Davis in C&C Music Factory was dubbed over by Martha in "Gonna Make You Sweat", but then she actually sang in "Things That Make You Go Hmmm" and didn't suck.

Loleatta Holloway claimed that she was in talks with Black Box to do the album and follow up singles to "Ride On Time" but that Martha Wash, with whom she was also in contact about her plans, put the kibosh on her negotiations by doing it for less money.

And you give ME shit for the ad libs at the end of my song?

R11, are you trying to say that people talking about dance music from 1991 are young?

The 90's movie "Fear Of A Black Hat" did a hilarious parody of the Black Box/C&C Music Factory/Martha Wash situation in the song "Come & Pet The P.U.S.S.Y." A video clip can't be found on the internet, but imagine a tiny little Asian woman "singing" the hook:

ITA, r3. Love her voice.

Compared to this, the isolated vocal tracks of Britney and Taylor Swift live sound like Annie Lennox or Whitney Houston

blocked on copywriter issues

Bumping a thread from 2014?! Fucking hilarious.

Another slow night on DL....

If we’re bringing up borrowed sampled and ripped off vocals let’s not forget Jocelyn “I’ve got the power” Brown.

YouTube comment:

Sadly she was called out as male, it destroyed her career. I didn't know & still don't know & is it really important what ever gender the lady might be.Some people are deaf to the music, all they want is to knock people down , no matter who they are. Me as a person to this day i think she is gorgeous with an awesome voice. listen to the music & never judge the person or run down a person because they are different. All i know is Blackbox produced some great music.

Blast from the past! 30 years too late.