Biography - page 3
1986 Jimmy Mack peaks at US #65.
She records two songs for the Demi Moore & Rob Lowe film About Last Night, working with Narada Michael Walden. The songs are So Far So Good and Natural Love.
So Far So Good makes US #43
1985 LP A Private Heaven peaks at US #15. The album goes platinum, selling over 1 millions copies, and becomes the best selling album of her career.
This album continues Sheena on the course of more dance oriented music.
She wins the Grammy ® Award for Best Mexican-American Performance for Me Gustas Tal Como Eres, a duet with Luis Miguel on the Todo Me Recuerda A Ti album.
Sugar Walls, written by Prince, under the pen name Alexander Nevermind, peaks at US #9 and #3 on the US R&B charts. Due to the controversy over the lyrics, the single is the most talked about single of her career. There is severe criticism from the Family Resource Center, a group lead by Tipper Gore, due to what they deemed sexually explicit in content. She and other artists defend their right of artistic expression and disagrees with the group's assessments of the lyrics. The heated discussions die down.
She is honored as the only artist in history to have Top 5 hits on Billboard's five major charts: Pop, R&B, Country, Adult Contemporary, and Dance.
She records the theme song for the Dudley Moore film Santa Claus - The Movie, It's Christmas All Over The World.
Do It For Love reaches US #29.
LP Do You is produced by Nile Rodgers and reaches US #40.
1984 Almost Over You peaks at US #25.
Devil In A Fast Car peaks at US #79
She marries agent Rob Light, an agent. The marriage lasts 1 1/2 years.
She records Todo Me Recuerda A Ti an album, sung in Spanish, of her greatest hits and a few originals. She doesn't understand Spanish but learns the words phonetically. The album does very well going gold, selling more than 500,000 copies, in many Latin American countries.
Harriett Wasserman becomes her manager and has remained so ever since.
Strut hits US #7
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