Flashback Who's That???

1. Regina Belle came on the scene with her debut solo Lp 'All By Myself' in 1987.  She was a savings grace for Columbia Records soul music division.  At the time every major record label was trying to find a 'Whitney Houston' who was at the Top of her game.

   
   

   Regina Belle was born July 17, 1963.  She is an American singer-songwriter and actress.  After graduation, she studied opera at the Manhattan School of Music. At Rutgers University, she became the first female vocalist with the school's jazz ensemble.

   
   

   She is notable for her Grammy award winning duet with Peabo Bryson, "A Whole New World" for the Disney's 1992 animated feature film Aladdin.

   
   

   

   
   

   During hey Columbia heyday, Belle scored three #1 singles and three Gold selling albums.  She has recorded a total of 9 albums, two were remakes most notably her 'Lazy Afternoon' recorded in 2004 and produced by the late George Duke.  Leaving Columbia records and switching to MCA, she got lost in the shuffle, music was taking a change, and MCA wanted her to go in a new direction.

   
   

   

   
   

   These days Belle is a Cancer survivor and is known as a Pastors wife, she married  John Battle in 1991. Battle played 10 years in the NBA with the Atlanta Hawks and Cleveland Cavaliers. He is now a pastor in Atlanta, Georgia. Belle and Battle have five children.   Belle vocal pipes are 'still' in peak form, she will go down in the history books, as one of the best, to ever do it.

   
   

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