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Marcia Llyneth Griffiths OJ OD (born 23 November 1949) [1] [2] is a Jamaican singer best known for the 1989 remix of her single "Electric Boogie", which serves as the music for the four-wall "Electric Slide" line dance. It is the best-selling single of all time by a female reggae singer.
"Electric Boogie" (also known as the "Electric Slide") is a dance song written by Bunny Wailer in response to his hearing the Eddy Grant song "Electric Avenue" in 1982. The song provided the basis for the success of dance fad called Electric Slide. [1] [2] According to Marcia Griffiths, "Electric Boogie" was written for her by Bunny Wailer in 1982.
The Electric (better known as The Electric Slide) is a four wall line dance. Choreographer and dancer Richard L. "Ric" Silver claims to have created the dance in 1976 ...
As a female vocalist who is known for her acoustic and electric slide guitar, her music tends to be classified in the folk sections of record stores, despite her strong roots in blues, gospel soul and rock music, and her cover versions of songs by Isaac Hayes, Stevie Wonder, Jack Bruce, Jimi Hendrix, Steve Winwood and Browning Bryant. McIlwaine ...
Michael Messer (born 28 February 1956) is an English singer, songwriter, slide guitarist, recording artist, producer, guitar designer/manufacturer. He is noteworthy for his ability to combine acoustic and electric National slide and lap steel guitar into his playing style. [1]
The song is a popular line dancing song often initiating the Electric Slide dance at weddings and parties. The song appears in the 1999 film The Best Man. The song appears on the radio station Bounce FM in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas. The song appears in the 2010 film Death at a Funeral.
Grandmaster Slice was an American hip-hop musician whose album Electric Slide (Shall We Dance) helped popularize the electric slide dance. [1] [2]Slice was born in South Boston, Virginia and attended Halifax County High School.
Notable credits include electronic duo Matmos' albums The West (1999) [9], A Chance to Cut Is a Chance to Cure (2001) [10], The Civil War (2003) [11],The Rose Has Teeth in the Mouth of a Beast (2006) [12], performing electric, slide and acoustic guitar, ukulele, banjo, tuba, trumpet, bass trumpet, peck horn, and plastic tube.