Afrodiziak


 
 

Afrodiziak were the British singers Caron Wheeler and Claudia Fontaine. They were best known for singing the backing vocals on Elvis Costello's 1983 album Punch the Clock (and on the international hit "Everyday I Write the Book"). They also sang for British dance pop outfit Heaven 17.

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Caron Wheeler went on to fame as a vocalist in the dance/R&B collective Soul II Soul (she was the lead vocalist on the group's two smash 1989 hits "Keep on Movin'" and "Back to Life") and had a brief career as a solo artist. Fontaine continued work as a backing vocalist on albums by EMF, Neneh Cherry and Hothouse Flowers, among others.

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Afrodiziak: Afrodiziak were the British singers Caron Wheeler and Claudia Fontaine. They were best known for singing the backing vocals on Elvis Costello's 1983 album Punch the Clock (and on the international hit "Everyday I Write the Book"). They also sang for British dance pop outfit Heaven 17....

Caron Wheeler: Caron Wheeler (b. January 19 1963 in London) is a British R&B singer who gained fame by writing and singing the lead vocals on the two biggest hits for Soul II Soul ("Keep On Movin'" and "Back To Life"). She also was a background singer for Elvis Costello in 1983....

Elvis Costello: Declan Patrick Aloysius MacManus (born August 25, 1954), better known by his stage name, Elvis Costello, is a popular British musician, singer, and songwriter of Irish ancestry. He was an early participant in London's pub rock scene in the mid-1970s, and later became associated with the punk rock a...

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