Song:Don't Ever Touch Me (Again)
Album:Wild Seed - Wild Flower
Former Arrested Development lead singer Dionne Farris made a huge splash with the 1995 CD Wild Seed - Wild Flower and especially the hit single I Know...then nothing. What happened? Dionne grew up in Bordentown, NJ and grew frustrated trying to break into the music scene in New York City. So she moved to Atlanta in 1990. She started dating drummer Rasha Don and he was a member of Arrested Development. Though Dionne got a lot of attention for singing lead on their hit Tennessee, she was never actually a member of the group and in 1993 she decided to go solo. She started working on songs with guitarist David Harris and one of her demos got her a contract with Columbia. I Know reached #4 on the Billboard Hot 100 and the album sold very well. The album is a strong mix of R & B, funk and rock highlighted by Dionne's strong vocals and Harris' slide guitar. They write most of the songs together including Don't Ever Touch Me. Dionne surfaced in 1997 with the song Helpless in the film Love Jones. Since then she has been working behind the scenes mostly with R & B singer songwriter Van Hunt. Dionne said in an interview with the Atlanta magazine Creative Loafing that her music was considered too rock for black radio. They liked it but they couldn't play it. Dionne Farris now has her own label Free & Clear Records and her albums Signs Of Life and For Truth If Not Love are available through iTunes. Here's the video for Don't Ever Touch Me (Again) by Dionne Farris.
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