Ford (Penny)  (USA) EuroDance member Added : 20/11/2001 Viewed 2789 times                             83 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013

Penny Ford albums

	Pennye	1984
	Penny Ford	1993

Penny Ford singles

	Change Your Wicked Ways	1984
	Dangerous	1985
	Uh, Oh, I Make A Mistake	1985
	Daydreaming	1993
	Under Pressure (with Sharon Redd)	1994
	I'll Be There	1994

Featurings

	Snap - The Power	1989
	Snap - Ooops Up	Sep 1990
	Snap - Cult of Snap	Jan 1991
	Snap - Mary Had A Little Boy	Apr 1991
	Snap - Megamix	Sep 1991
	Steve E - Peace in the City	28th Jan 2013

Songwriting

	Snap - Ooops Up	Sep 1990
	Snap - Cult of Snap	Jan 1991
	Snap - Color Of Love	Mar 1992
	Snap - The World In My Hands	4th Sep 1995

Penny Ford biography

She was born in Cincinatti, Ohio, U.S.A (her real first name is Pennye) in 1964. Her father was Gene Redd, who was an Executive Producer at King Records. After studying various musical instruments, Pennye joined a group called Reach, who toured extensively in Japan. Pennye returned to the U.S. and relocated to Los Angeles and managed to get work at Motown Records publishing company Jobete Music. Here she sang a few demo's of their tunes. Pennye then relocated to Total Experience Records and released a solo single entitled Change Your Wicked Ways. An album followed, entitled Pennye in 1984. The follow-up single Dangerous reached the UK top 50 in 1985.

She became Snap's female vocalist (her voice appears on The Power, Mary Had A Little Boy, and Oops Up) and, after she decided to leave the group, she introduced all the potential new singers to the producers. This was her only eurodance experience. Afterwards she went back to R'n'B and soul music.

This top session and concert vocalist has sung for Chaka Khan, Kool And The Gang, George Clinton and The SOS Band. She also contributed to the Gap Band (I Found My Baby) Barry White (his 1999 Staying Power tour), Rick James (Urban Rapsody), and Soul II Soul (Vol. III: Just Right).

In 1993, Pennye dropped the 'e' from ther christian name and moved to Columbia Records and cut the album Penny Ford, which was produced by Randy Jackson.

Her second solo album was released in 1993 under Columbia/Sony. The album boasted grade-A talent like producer/bassist Randy D. Jackson (Narada Michael Walden, Journey), saxman Gerald Albright, and pianist Greg Phillanganes. The lead single was a R&B charting hip-hop flavored cover of Aretha Franklin's Daydreaming. Ford's gospel-honed vocals on the inspiring I'll Be There - not the Jackson 5 classic - were impressive. Other standouts were the funky Nevertheless, the pensive mid-tempo Father Time, and the ballads All in Me and Wherever You Are Tonight, the latter co-written by Junior (Mama Used to Say, Too Late).

She beame a member of BWU (Black Women United). Some rumors say that she died recently (her sister Sharon died in January of 1992 from pneumonia). This was of course completely false.

Her most recent solo CD was released on Columbia Records with Randy Jackson (from real-TV show American Idol) as executive producer and on bass.

2007 : her voice was featured on DJ N-Joy's single When We Rise. She appeared in the RTL Germany TV show Ultimative Chart show in March and sung The Power with a young rapper.

2008 : Penny will appear on stage for Snap! for the 90s concert All 90s in Copenhagen on May 31st.

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Penny Ford at Soulwalking UK

The biography was last updated Sun, June 14th 2009

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01/07/2013 : Beginning of 2013, Penny Ford (Snap) was featured on Steve E's single Peace in the City. She also co-wrote the lyrics. videoclip was produced by Navid.M.P. (Thanks to Krasi)

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