Tammi Lavette

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She was actually born in Africa, but from the age of four, she spent most of her life in New York, but now lives in England, and at the Mecca, she performed "You Tore Apart My Broken Heart", and also sang the actual theme song for the massive DVD box set "The Strange World Of Northern Soul", a song called "Seven Days", and the video for that can also be seen on here. We also cut a song called "Too Much Too Late" on her, a song which was discovered by my mentor Chris Hill when he was head of Arista records. It was an obscure single in the early nineties by a group called Rufus Doors, a brother/sister act, but he left Arista before ever signing them, so I snatched up the song and did it on Tammi. That video can also be seen on here too. We cut a whole album on Tammi, but it's never yet been released on CD although it is on iTunes. Tammi Lavette makes a fabulous new version of my 1976 Disco classic, and Northern Soul floorfiller, originally sung so wonderfully by Doris Jones, "No Way Out", which came out on United Artists in both England and America, and then was also remixed and featured heavily on the hit disco album by Doris Jones in 1979 on AVI Records. Tammi was a teenager when I first discovered her, way back in 1993 and I have watched her blossom into the most fabulous soul diva.. Her version of "No Way Out" is my favourite track off "Yesterday And Tomorrow". Tammi also sang that huge 1970s Northern Soul classic recorded by Bettye Swann on Atlantic, "Kiss My Love Goodbye

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