Brenda Shannon Greene
| Shannon | |
|---|---|
| Birth name | Shannon Brenda Greene |
| Born |
May 2, 1958 Washington, D.C., United States |
| Genres | Freestyle, electronic, post-disco, Hi-NRG |
| Occupation(s) | Recording artist |
| Years active | 1983–present |
| Labels |
Emergency Mirage Atlantic |
Shannon Brenda Greene (born May 2, 1958), better known by the mononym Shannon, is an American songwriter, recording artist and singer of high energy and dance-pop music. She is best known for her million-selling record single "Let the Music Play".
Her albums include Let the Music Play (1984), followed by Do You Wanna Get Away (1985) and Love Goes All the Way (1986). In 1999, Shannon appeared in a segment of VH1's One-Hit Wonders, and returned to music with her fourth album, The Best is Yet to Come, released in 2000. This was followed by a compilation album, Let The Music Play: The Best of Shannon (2004). Shannon's most recent album is A Beauty Returns (2007). In 2016, Carnival Cruise Lines ran a current national television campaign featuring music performed by Shannon. A new 2016 single was scheduled to be released the 3rd quarter of 2016.
In December 2016, Billboard magazine ranked her as the 86th most successful dance artist of all-time.
In 1983, she was enrolled at York College and toured with the New York Jazz Ensemble. Quintin Hicks, an associate of the production team of Mark Liggett and Chris Barbosa, saw Shannon singing with a live band in her cousin's recording studio. She auditioned for Liggett and Barbosa with the song "She Can't Love You Like I Do". They introduced her to the selection "Fire and Ice", which would later evolve into Shannon's signature song, "Let The Music Play"; its unique sound, called "the Shannon Sound", would later come to be known as "freestyle". Let The Music Play would also be the title of Shannon's debut album, which she released through the team in 1984.
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