Vega (Tata)   (USA)

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Added : 28/01/2021
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Tata Vega albums

	Full Speed Ahead	1976	BUY X
	Totally Tata	1977	BUY X
	Super Soul	1977	BUY X
	Try My Love	1978	BUY X
	Givin' All My Love	1980	BUY X
	Time's So Right	1988	BUY X
	Now I See	1998	BUY X

Tata Vega singles

	Try Love From The Inside	1976	BUY X
	Full Speed Ahead	1976	BUY X
	You'll Never Rock Alone / Just When Things Are Getting Good	1976	BUY X
	I Need You Now / In The Morning	1978	BUY X
	I Just Keep Thinking About You Baby / In The Morning	1978	BUY X
	If Love Must Go	1979	BUY X
	Get It Up For Love / I Just Keep Thinking About You Baby	1979	BUY X
	You Keep Me Hangin' On	1980	BUY X
	Love Your Neighbor / There's Love In The World	1981	BUY X
	Maybe God Is Tryin' To Tell You Somethin' (with Jacquelyn Farris and Members Of The Christ Memorial Church Of God In Christ Choir)	1986	BUY X
	Miss Celie's Blues (Sister)	1986	BUY X
	Never Let Die	1988	BUY X

Featurings and collaborations

	Lou Rawls - Learn To Love Again	1985	BUY X
	RAF - We've Got To Live Together	1991	BUY X
	Blind Truth - Why Can't We See	1991	BUY X
	Arthur Baker & The Backbeat Disciples - Let There Be Love	1991	BUY X
	Arthur Baker - Let There Be Love	1991	BUY X
	Laurent Garnier - As French Connection	1991	BUY X
	Oaktown's 3-5-7 - Turn It Up	1991	BUY X
	KMA - Come Together	1992	BUY X
	Atelier - Got To Live Together	1992	BUY X
	Freak Sisters - The Freak Boutique	1992	BUY X
	Love Revolution - Why Can't We See	1992	BUY X
	Satin Storm - Let's Get Together	1992	BUY X
	The Criminal Minds - Baptised By Dub	1992	BUY X
	Blind Truth - Love Is The Key	1993	BUY X
	Emotions - Feeling Emotions	1994	BUY X
	Franky B - Love Is The Answer	1994	BUY X
	Anaiss - Come On	1994	BUY X
	Maeda - Why Can't We See	1994	BUY X
	Maltese Massive - Everybody Shake Your Body	1994	BUY X
	Mayhem - Mayhem 94	1994	BUY X
	Andromeda - We've Got To Live Together	7th Jan 1994	BUY X
	Carat Trax II by Zolex - The Message	1995	BUY X
	DJ Sneak - The Polyester E.P. Vol. 2	1995	BUY X
	Systematic - Love Is The Answer	2nd Jan 1995	BUY X
	Recharge - Why Can't We See ?	1996	BUY X
	Darlene Love, Judith Hill - Twenty Feet From Stardom	2013	BUY X
	Chris Lake & Armand Van Helden - The Answer	11th Dec 2020	BUY X

Aliases - Records released under other names

Tata - Listen To The Melody (The Hot Rock Movie Theme)

1972

BUY X

Tata Vega biography

American vocalist Táta Vega was born Carmen Rosa Vega on October 7, 1951, in Jamaica Queens, Long Island, New York. She has 2 daughters called Angelica and Chloe. Her career spans theater, film, and a variety of musical genres. Her musical styles are R&B, Disco, Soul, Funk and occasionally House music.

She started her professional singing career in 1963. In 1969-70, she was cast in the Los Angeles version of the Broadway musical "Hair". She then became a member of the group Pollution. Berry Gordy spotted the band and immediately offered them a contract. She entered the groupe Earthquire, contributing to a self-titled album released in 1972 under Natural Resources, a Motown sublabel. Album flopped and Earthquire disbanded, only Táta remained. She kept on working for various bands and from time to with some former members of Pollution. She released four solo albums on the Tamla label, another Motown sublabel : Full Speed Ahead (1976), Totally Táta (1977), Try My Love (1978), and Givin' All My Love (1981). Her 1979 single Get It Up for Love was probably her major hit, especially in the discos in the UK.

In 1985 her vocals on Oh, It is Jesus, written by Andrae Crouch got her nominated for Best Soul female Gospel Performance at the 27th annual Grammy Awards. The same year, she performed the voice of Shug Avery in Steven Spielberg's The Color Purple movie. She was also featured on four songs on the 1986 soundtrack album, one of which, the very succesful Miss Celie's Blues (Sister), was nominated for an Academy Award in the Best Song category.

As a lead backing vocalist, Táta Vega worked with Russ Taff, Stevie Wonder, Andraé Crouch, Chaka Khan, Patti LaBelle, Michael Jackson, Ray Charles and Madonna, singing duets with Lou Rawls, Jermaine Jackson, Peter Rivera with Rare Earth and Michael Sembello.

In 1991 she did vocals on Michael O'Neill's album True Love. The same year, she started collaborating with Arthur Baker and Blind Truth. Paino-house single Why Can't We See, featuring Tata and Toney, was the one that caught the most attention. It was massively sampled and used on several eurodance singles by projects such as Systematic, Andromeda, Emotions... and amny other house and electro tracks.

In 1994, she recorded two Spanish versions of the song Circle of Life from Disney's movie The Lion King : El ciclo de la vida for Spain and Ciclo Sin Fin for Latin America.

In 1996 she took part to some songs on Andraé Crouch' album No Time To Lose.

In 1998, she signed with Quincy Jones's Quest Records and released a gospel album, Now I See,which was nominated for a Stellar award. Vega is also known for her song Seasons, a cover of a song by Japanese superstar Ayumi Hamasaki.

2006 : she signed with Do Rite Records, releasing a gospel album entitled This Joy on October 27, 2009.

2010 : Tata joined Elton John's band as a full-time backing vocalist along with Rose Stone, Lisa Stone and Jean Johnson (singer) Witherspoon.

2011 : her first two solo albums, Full Speed Ahead and Totally Táta were reissued on CD by Soulmusic.com records.

2013 : on January 18, alongside Darlene Love, Merry Clayton, Lisa Fischer and Judith Hill, she premiered 20 "Feet from Stardom", a documentary about background singers, at Robert Redford's annual Sundance Film Festival.

2014 : in the wake of the documentary's success, her solo albums at Motown were released digitally.

Thanks to Andrew-FK

Tata Vega biography was last updated Thu, January 28th 2021

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