Loleatta Holloway obituary

Her voice made Ride on Time a smash hit in 1989The biggest-selling pop record in Britain in 1989 was Ride On Time by Black Box. The highlight of the track was the piercing vocal sound, sampled by its Italian producers from a recording by the African American singer Loleatta Holloway, who has died from heart failure, aged 64. Born in Chicago, she joined the Holloway Community Singers, a 100-strong gospel choir led by her mother, as a child. From the age of five, Holloway was a featured soloist, a...

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