Stacey Q

   
Artist: Stacey Q

   Genre(s): 
Dance
   

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Discography:


   
 Nights Like This

   Year: 1989   
Tracks: 10


   
 Hard Machine

   Year: 1988   
Tracks: 10


   
 Better Than Heaven

   Year: 1986   
Tracks: 10

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Best-known for her '80s dance-pop smash "Two of Hearts," Stacey Q's Madonna-ish look and youthful eld helped her appeal to teens as well as clubgoers during her comparatively abbreviated time in the spotlight. Born Stacey Swain, she first began performing as portion of the Ringling Brothers Circus, and joined a synth pop getup called Q (named after the James Bond contrivance man) in the early '80s. As the stress of the group shifted to its unexampled singer, their identify was changed to SSQ (for Stacey Swain), and they landed a deal with Enigma, cathartic an album, titled Playback, in 1983. It went mostly unnoticed, however, and the rechristened Stacey Q pursued a solo life history. She finally sign-language with Atlantic, and made her solo debut in 1986 with the LP Better Than Heaven. The lead single, "Two of Hearts," soared into the pop Top Five, qualification Stacey Q a hot commodity; she performed on the sitcom The Facts of Life and scored another Top 40 strike with the followup, "We Connect." Sustaining that success proven difficult, however; neither of her subsequent Atlantic albums, 1988's Hard Machine and 1989's Nights Like This, produced another major hit, and she was lost in the wave of teen-oriented pop that emerged around the same time. A greatest-hits compilation was released in 1995, but it featured by and large remixes, a hefty selection from the Playback era, and no material from her last deuce Atlantic albums. In 1997, Stacey Q released a small-scale comeback album called Boomerang; a far weep from her '80s dance-pop records, it reflected her conversion to Buddhism and hard mostly on acoustic bulge and john Rock.