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Gwen Dickey (born December 1, 1953) is an American musician. She is best known as the lead singer of the R&B band Rose Royce , where she performed under the name Rose Norwalt. Notable songs from the group include " Car Wash " and " Wishing on a Star ".
During a tour stop in Miami, Undisputed Truth leader Joe Harris noticed a singer named Gwen Dickey, then a member of a local group called the Jewels. Harris informed Whitfield of his discovery and Dickey was flown to Los Angeles to audition. Whitfield asked Gwen to join the band, and gave her the stage name of Rose Norwalt. This was the lineup ...
Rainbow Connection IV is the fourth album by the funk band Rose Royce, released on the Whitfield label in 1979. [4] It was produced by Norman Whitfield.This would be the last album to include lead singer Gwen Dickey before she left the group to embark on a solo career.
American rapper Jay-Z covered Wishing on a Star, featuring Gwen Dickey of Rose Royce, in 1998. It was included on the United Kingdom release of In My Lifetime, Vol. 1 and Greatest Hits. The D'Influence remix can be found on Chapter One: Greatest Hits and Bring It On: The Best of Jay Z.
"Car Wash 1998" (featuring Gwen Dickey) — — — — — — — — — 18 — "—" denotes a recording that did not chart or was not released in that territory.
Lead vocals were sung by Gwen Dickey and the song was released as the second single from their third studio album Strikes Again. The song was developed as a result of producer Whitfield's interest to work with Paul Buckmaster, the British arranger and composer. Together they asked songwriter Miles Gregory to write a song for them.
Rose Royce. Gwen Dickey – lead vocals; Kenny Copeland – trumpet, lead vocals; Kenji Brown – guitar, lead vocals; Lequeint "Duke" Jobe – bass, vocals; Michael Nash – keyboards
The former Motown Records producer Norman Whitfield had been commissioned to record the soundtrack album for Car Wash by the director Michael Schultz.Although Whitfield did not want the project, he decided to do so, both for financial incentives as well as the chance to give Rose Royce, a disco/funk backing band that Whitfield signed to his own label in 1975, the exposure they needed to become ...