Pepper Mashay

Pepper Mashay (real name Jean McClain) is a Urban/Soul music,House music and Club/Dance singer-songwriter who has had success as a touring and studio performer.

Career

As a lead vocalist, Mashay has released many tracks that have performed well on the U.S. Hot Dance Club Play chart and more recently, the Hot Dance Airplay chart. Those singles , include "Something To Feel" (1995), "Happiness" (1997), "Step Into My Life" (1998), "Sextacy" (2000) and "Send Me an Angel" (2005). Her voice is probably best known from the "Let's get soaking wet!" chanting throughout the Barry Harris track "Dive in the Pool", made famous by its inclusion in the American television series "Queer as Folk". Another collaboration with Harris, "I Got My Pride", hit number two on the U.S. Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart in 2001.

Mashay has an extensive resumé of work as a background and session singer, performing on songs by Whitney Houston, Christina Aguilera, Bobby Caldwell, Cher, Mick Jagger, Tina Turner, Jennifer Holliday, Taylor Dayne, Michael Bolton, Celine Dion, Ray Charles, Sheena Easton, Steve Perry and many others.

In late 2006, Pepper Mashay earned her first solo chart-topper on the U.S. Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart with the song "Lost Yo Mind". It has attained moderate to heavy rotation on dance-oriented radio stations, charting well on the Hot Dance Airplay. Pepper Mashay issued her new single, "Got To Give The People What They Want" in late January, 2008.

Discography

ingles

* "Something To Feel"
* "By Any Means Necessary"
* "Into You"
* "Happiness"
* "Right Back To Love"
* "Step 2 Me"
* "Step Into My Life"
* "Sextacy"
* "Here's To Life"
* "Not Much Heaven"
* "Love Pretender"
* "You've Got To Go"
* "Dive in the Pool" (with Barry Harris)
* "I Got My Pride"
* "You and Me (Feels So Good)" (with Solar City)
* "I Want You In My Life"
* "I Pledge"
* "Let's Runaway" (with Scott Michael)
* "Happy New Year" (with Ernest Kohl)
* "I Can't Stop"
* "Electro Illusion"
* "You're My Inspiration"
* "Signed, Sealed, Delivered" (with Colton Ford)
* "Send Me an Angel"
* "Beauty Shop" (featured in the film "Beauty Shop")
* "Lost Yo Mind"
* "Got To Give The People What They Want"

ee also

*List of number-one dance hits (United States)
*List of artists who reached number one on the U.S. Dance chart

External links

* [http://www.peppermashay.net Official website]
* [http://www.myspace.com/frecklebandit - Pepper Mashay's Label site on Myspace]
* [http://www.pridenation.com/pepper/discotography.htm - Pepper Mashay Fanpage]