Martha Wash (born December 28, 1953) is an R&B;, soul, house, and club/dance singer/songwriter known for her distinctive and powerful voice.
Wash began her music career as a backing singer for Sylvester. With fellow backing singer Izora Rhodes, she was half of "Two Tons O' Fun", who would later be renamed The Weather Girls. As such, they were responsible for providing much of the fire-power behind several of the late singer's earliest releases — ...
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Martha Wash (born December 28, 1953) is an R&B;, soul, house, and club/dance singer/songwriter known for her distinctive and powerful voice.
Wash began her music career as a backing singer for Sylvester. With fellow backing singer Izora Rhodes, she was half of "Two Tons O' Fun", who would later be renamed The Weather Girls. As such, they were responsible for providing much of the fire-power behind several of the late singer's earliest releases — often their voices were mixed so that Sylvester was actually the background singer and Wash and Rhodes voices were upfront. When the singers left to pursue a career on their own, they achieved success with a handful of successful disco-oriented tracks, culminating with the 1982 release of "It's Raining Men", a worldwide hit that peaked at #2 on the UK singles chart, #1 in Australia, #1 on the Euro Hot 100, #46 on the Billboard Hot 100, #34 on the U.S. R&B; chart, and #1 on the U.S. Hot Dance Club Play chart. It also reached the top ten in...
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