Jiani (Carol)   (Canada)

AKA : Uchenna Ikejiani
HiNRG group
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Latest Carol Jiani news

18/10/2019 : Carol Jiani will be celebrity guest artist at the PGE Awards UK on Friday November 8th 2019 (Thanks to Eurodance Magazine)

14/02/2018 : Carol Jiani is back with a new house song entitled Feel It.

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Carol Jiani albums

	Hit 'N Run Lover	1981	BUY X
	Ask Me	1982	BUY X
	Dancing In The Rain	1984	BUY X
	The Best of Carol Jiani	1995	BUY X
	Superstar	1996	BUY X

Carol Jiani singles

	Hit N' Run Lover	1981	BUY X
	The Woman In Me	1981	BUY X
	Ask Me	1982	BUY X
	You're Gonna Lose My Love	1982	BUY X
	X-Rated	1982	BUY X
	Dancing In The Rain	1984	BUY X
	Touch and Go Lover	1984	BUY X
	Love Now Pay Later	1984	BUY X
	Don't Leave Me This Way	1985	BUY X
	Vanity	1985	BUY X
	Such A Joy Honey	1987	BUY X
	Turning My Back and Walking Away	1987	BUY X
	Hit'n Run Lover '88	1988	BUY X
	Car Wash	1989	BUY X
	Get Up and Do It Again	1989	BUY X
	It Should Have Been Me	1990	BUY X
	No Matter Where	1990	BUY X
	I Didn't Know	1994	BUY X
	Come and Get Your Love	1995	BUY X
	Superstar	1995	BUY X
	Kiss You All Over	1996	BUY X
	Hit 'N' Run Lover 2000	2000	BUY X
	The Queen	2000	BUY X
	It's Raining Men	2005	BUY X
	Hit'n Run Lover 2006	2006	BUY X
	Somebody Else's Guy	2007	BUY X
	Set Me Free (feat. DJ N Joy)	2008	BUY X
	I Don't Wanna Talk About Love	2008	BUY X
	Are You Man Enough? (with Evelyn Thomas)	2008	BUY X
	I Am What I Am	2009	BUY X
	Fighting Fire With Fire	2009	BUY X
	No More	2011	BUY X
	Feel It	25th May 2018	BUY X

Featurings and collaborations

	Suzy Q - Get Up and Do It Again	1982	BUY X
	3 Man Island - Funkin' For The UK	1988	BUY X
	Tommaso da Prato - You've Changed	2007	BUY X
	Jazz Voice - First Time I Saw You	2007	BUY X
	Mauzio Verbeni - Ask Me	2007	BUY X
	House Bros - Keep On	2007	BUY X
	Pautrat Laurent - Stop the Music	Jun 2007	BUY X
	Frank Savannah - Never Knew Love	2008	BUY X
	Mondo - Fascinated	2008	BUY X
	Didier Vanelli - Hit'n Run Lover	2008	BUY X
	Mad'ness & Yuri Presents My Lover - No More Chances	2008	BUY X
	Stan Courtois - You Are the One	2008	BUY X
	Paul James - Radio Active Love	2009	BUY X
	Viken Mardikian - Let Me Show You	2009	BUY X
	Jimmy D Robinson - Broken	2010	BUY X
	Jason Parker Meets Naxwell - Hold That Sucker Down	12th Jun 2015	BUY X

Carol Jiani biography

Disco and hi-NRG diva Uchenna Ikejiani was born in Nigeria to an Igbo family. She moved from Nigeria to Montreal, Canada in the mid-1970s to study at Concordia University. In autumn 1977 she auditioned to appear on Joe La Greca's album Montreal. In early 1978 she recorded two tracks for the project, If You Believe In Me and Higher And Higher. These were released on an EP, with her credited under her birth name. Glenn LaRusso of Salsoul Records convinced her to shorten her name from Uchenna Ikejiani to Carol Jiani to make it easier for North Americans to pronounce.

In 1980 Jiani recorded two songs written by Sandy Wilbur with La Greca : Hit N Run Lover and All The People Of The World. Hit N Run Lover was remixed by San Francisco-based Moby Dick Records for their Gold Standard imprint and would become her signature song, peaking at #4 on the US Billboard Club Play Singles chart in 1981. On the heels Hit N' Run Lover's success Matra Records commissioned a complete album, also titled Hit N' Run Lover. The Woman In Me was the album's second single but its B-side, the uptempo Mercy written by Pete Bellotte and Sylvester Levay which featured off-key horns, exceeded the A-side in popularity among DJs becoming another hit for Jiani. Mercy, the only track on the album not composed by Sandy Wilbur, was recorded earlier by Judy Cheeks. A follow-up album, Ask Me was released the next year generating the singles Ask Me, X-Rated, and You're Gonna Lose My Love. In 1982 Jiani recorded vocals for Get Up and Do It Again for project Suzy Q. The song was a hit, but her contract prevented her from performing as Suzy Q. Get on Up and Do it Again was re-recorded by "Mizz" lead singer Michelle Mills.

In 1983 Jiani moved to England and signed with Record Shack to record Vanity with producer Ian Levine. Barbara Pennington had previously recorded the track but declined to release it in order to focus exclusively on soul music. Vanity, released in 1985, was a hit reaching #1 on the UK Hi-NRG Club chart. She released album Dancing In The Rain, a vinyl compilation of various songs previously released on Canadian and European 12" singles. Levine secured her a deal with MCA records, and she released Such A Joy Honey. According to Levine, Turning My Back And Walking Away was to have been her second single for MCA until she was dropped from the label. MCA gave the recording to Levine and the single was quickly released by his Nightmare Records label in 1987. Levine and Jiani went on to produce a full album for Hot Records, The Best of Carol Jiani, featuring a re-recording of Hit N' Run Lover as well as brand new material.

In 1994 she released the very nice eurodance single I Didn't Know. It was written by French team Beat Paul, Franklin Fischer and Rémy "Fab" Philly. The Venetian remixes were made by C. Claudio Mingardi, Gianluca Vivaldi and Riccardo Salani, hence the distinctive DWA records sound. She returned to Canada to again work with Joe La Greca on her 1996 album. Superstar produced two singles, Come and Get Your Love and Superstar. This house song was described as a scolding and critique of Michael Jackson and his child molestation charges.

After Superstar, Carol released few recordings until the late 2000s, when she made another comeback by working with contemporary dance music producers like Laurent Pautrat and Mondo. She also reunited with Ian Levine to provide vocals on the track Work My Fingers to the Bone for his album Northern Soul 2007. Levine and Jiani also recorded a cover of France Joli's Come To Me.

In early 2008, Carol recorded new tracks with producers Chris Richards & Peter Wilson. One of the first songs to emerge, I Don't Wanna Talk About Love, was included on the Klone Records' compilation Mad About The Boy 16.

2010 : in May, Broken, Carol Jiani's collaboration with Jimmy D Robinson, peaked at #9 on Music Week's UK Upfront Club chart.

2011 : she released single No More

2015 : Carol did vocals on Jason Parker Meets Naxwell's cover of Hold That Sucker Down.

Thanks to Marian Stoica

Carol Jiani biography was last updated Sun, January 29th 2017

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