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Miki Howard
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Alicia Michelle "Miki" Howard (born September 30, 1960) is an American R&B singer known for her top 10 hits in the mid-1980s and early 1990s, including "Baby, Be Mine" (1987), "Come Share My Love" (1986), and "Love Under New Management" (1990). "Ain't Nobody Like You" (1992) and "Ain't Nuthin' in the World" (1989) both reached number one on the U.S. Billboard Top R&B Singles chart. Howard was born in Chicago, Illinois, to gospel singers Josephine Howard of The Caravans and Clay Graham of The Pilgrim Jubilees. She moved to Los Angeles at age nine, where her mother sang in a choir led by James Cleveland. Howard was exposed to performers such as Aretha Franklin, Mavis Staples, Albertina Walker, Shirley Caesar, Billy Preston, and Fats Domino, and was influenced by jazz singers including Billie Holiday, Dinah Washington, and Nancy Wilson. As a teenager, she frequented the nightclub Maverick's Flat, where she encountered acts like Rufus, Chaka Khan, and Earth, Wind & Fire. Howard began her professional career with the R&B group Side Effect, joining in 1979 and replacing Sylvia St. James. She contributed to the albums "After the Rain" (1980), "Portraits", and "All Aboard". During this time, the songs "I Can't Play" and a cover of Toto's "Georgy Porgy" became minor R&B hits in 1983 and 1984. Howard also provided background vocals for artists such as Wayne Henderson, Roy Ayers, and Stanley Turrentine. By 1985, she left Side Effect to pursue a solo career and secured a recording cont
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