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DENIECE WILLIAMS
Soul Express Interview/Article
By Heikki Suosalo
Part 1
Photos courtesy of Bobby Eli
Deniece Williams is a remarkable singer. Her distinctive coloratura soprano with a four-octave range is as enchanting as it gets, and her choice of material suits her nightingale voice and girlish style perfectly. She has left her mark both on secular and gospel music, and in this first part of her story we feature her latest CD and her early career, including her first 60s recordings.
Deniece Williams Story Part 2 (1975 1981)
Deniece Williams Story Part 3 (1982 2008)
Deniece Williams Album Discography
LOVE, NIECY STYLE
After a lapse of nine years, Deniece finally this year came up with a new CD, Love, Niecy Style (Shanachie 5765; www.myspace.com/deniecewilliams), and a delightful record it is, too. It is the 17th album in her career, and its produced by Bobby Eli. He also co-arranged it together with the late Nathaniel Crockett Wilkie, engineered it at his own new Studio E and he plays guitar on it, too.
Born Eli Tatarsky in Philadelphia, Bo
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Biography
Born
3 June 1951 (age 73)
Born In
Gary, Lake County, Indiana, United States
June Deniece Chandler (born June 3, 1950), known professionally as Deniece Williams and often referred to by the nickname "Niecy", is an American singer, songwriter and record producer born in Gary, Indiana who achieved much success in the 1970s and 1980s. Williams, whose music has been influenced by pop, soul, gospel, R&B and dance, is known for her hits such as "Let's Hear It for the Boy" and "Silly" among many others and for her vocal-duets with Johnny Mathis. Her career started in the 1970s when she became a backup vocalist for Stevie Wonder as part of 'Wonderlove'.
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Williams, Deniece
Vocalist
Planned Nursing Career
Debut Produced by Maurice White
Song Appeared on Film Soundtrack
Selected discography
Sources
With a four-octave range and a distinctive soprano voice often described as birdlike, Deniece Williams was a fixture of urban and pop radio formats in the 1980s. She placed 24 single releases in the R&B Top 40; the duet “Too Much, Too Little, Too Late,” which featured Williams’s sometime duet partner Johnny Mathis, and four other songs advanced to the chart’s top spot. Williams, who writes or co-writes much of her own material, started her musical life in the gospel genre and returned to gospel in the 1990s, successfully making the transition in middle age to the active musical life that eluded so many other artists.
Williams was born Deniece Chandler in Gary, Indiana, on June 3, 1951. Her father was a security guard and her mother a nurse. “Niecy” Chandler accompanied her family to the local Church of God in Christ, where she sang in the choir. The church discouraged its members fro
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