Amuka I Want More - Cling On To Me - Extended Mixes

About the artist: Sheila Horne [Aka Sheila Brody aka Blackwood aka AMUKA] started out as a back-up singer for the Brides Of Funkenstein Brides Lynn Mabry and Dawn Silva in 1978. She became a main singer with Silva and Jeanette McGruder in 1979 for the second Brides album Never Buy Texas From A Cowboy and joined Rick James on tour in 1981 as an original Mary Jane. Sheila wrote songs for George Clinton's solo albums on Capitol in the mid-80's and as late as 2005 she continued to tour with P-Funk All-Stars and with George Clinton. In 1998 she moved to Italy and released an album as the lead vocalist of the Euro-pop chart topping group, Blackwood which went on to have the number one dance album of 1999, beating out Madonna out of the number one seat . After her return to the US Sheila released a few soulful vinyl tools including "E.Q" [ I am in effect for you] supported by all big underground dj's including Danny Tenaglia who is quoted saying "What a voice on her!!!!" . In 2003 Sheila released the crossover dance anthem, "Appreciate Me" under the moniker AMUKA, a hit that charted as the # 1 song for the Top 200 Dance Songs of that year on Billboard Magazine as well the follow up "U Ain't that good" under her real name Sheila Brody which charted number 3 on the Billboard Club Play chart. About the Single: AMUKA’s previous smash hit “Appreciate me” topped the Billboard Hot 200 Singles of the year & was in rotation in all Dance Radio Stations across the U.S including WKTU who supported the record for over a year and crossed over into the mainstream. The single was licensed worldwide and featured in over 30 hign profile dance compilations including “American Anthems” and “Annual 2004” by Ministry of Sounds, “Dance Smash hits” By Universal-TV Dance Mix USA . This follow up entitled "I want more" which is yet unreleased and only available as a pre-release download on beatport.com is poised to repeat that process with 11 smoking multi market remixes including production mixes by Offer Nissim, Mahjong, Dj Paulo and Joe Bermudez & Klubjumpers is on top of all US based Record Pool and Mixshow Charts Including charting at number 11 and rising on the DJ TIMES Magazine National Crossover Dance chart, and its Number 2 on billboard with a bullet on the Club Play Chart & already featured in various compilations most notably on Junior Vasquez's best selling Global Groves Mixed CD on Centaur Records. With such assets and a bag of hooks, AMUKA is back!