Joi Cardwell
| Joi Cardwell | |
|---|---|
| Birth name | Joi Cardwell |
| Born |
October 8, 1967 New York City, New York |
| Genres | House, R&B, old skool, pop, dance |
| Occupation(s) | Singer-songwriter, record producer, musician |
| Instruments | Vocals, piano, violin |
| Years active | 1988–present |
| Labels | Curly Gurly Records, Nervous Records, No-Mad Industries, Eightball Records |
| Associated acts | Brooklyn Funk Essentials, Lil' Louis, Toshinobu Kubota |
| Website | www |
Joi Cardwell (born October 8, 1967) is an American singer-songwriter. Born and raised in New York City, New York, she performed in various singing as a child and rose to fame in the early 1990s as guest vocalist for Lil Louis on the number 1 Dance singles "Club Lonely" and "Saved My Life". The release of Cardwell's debut album, The World Is Full of Trouble (1995), established her as a solo artist worldwide and featured the Billboard Dance top-five singles number-one singles "Jump for Joi" and "Love & Devotion". Her second album, Joi Cardwell (1997), spawned the top-charting singles "Soul to Bare", "Run to You", and "Found Love".
In 1999, she released her third album Deliverance on her own record label No-Mad Industries. Her fourth album, The Plain Jane Project (2005), yielded the top-ten singles "Freedom" and "It's Over". She continued to release albums on her recording label including Wanderlust (The Soundtrack) (2009) and Must Be the Music (2011). In 2014, Cardwell resurfaced with her seventh album The Art of Being, which was released on her new recording label Curly Gurly Records.
In 2016, Billboard magazine ranked her at #43 amongst the Greatest of All Time Top Dance Club Artists.
Born in New York City in the late-1960s and raised in various areas of Queens. Cardwell appeared on stage at Carnegie Hall at the age of five in a dance recital, and was used to being on a stage by the time she was a teenager. She worked as a back-up session singer for Melba Moore, Jermaine Jackson, LL Cool J, and The Pointer Sisters. After graduating from New York University with degrees in English and Music in the mid-1980s, she studied voice for a year primarily in order to master control, as she had already developed and retained her own personal style. After her studies, she wrote and published songs for major R&B acts such as Kashif, L.A. Posse, and Malika Thomas.
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