Jody Watley

Hey, yeah
I love to love, love to love

This time, I have someone to treat me right
Someone to count to through all times
Never ever trying to bring me down, hey, hey
Now when I'm with you, I'm feeling love
You lift me up and I'm feeling alright, alright
It feels so good to finally have happiness

I love to love, I love to love
Yes, I do, yes, I do
I love to love, I love to love
Yes, I do, it feels so good

I've learned you really gotta love yourself
Before you can give it someone else
You gotta know it's real, oh
And now when I'm with you, I'm feeling love
You lift me up and I'm feeling alright, alright
It feels so good to finally have happiness

I love to love, I love to love
Yes, I do, yes, I do
I love to love, I love to love
(I love you)
Yes, I do, yes, I do
(It feels so good, it feels so good)

I love to love, I love to love
(I love you)
Yes, I do, yes, I do
(I want you, I want you, oh...)
I love to love, I love to love
Yes, I do, yes, I do
(I love you, baby)

(I love to love)
I finally found someone to treat me right
(I love to love)
Someone to hold me through the night
(I love to love)
It keeps getting better with time
(I love to love)
Hey, hey, hey, hey

You bring me sunshine
You bring me sunshine
Don't you know
You bring me sunshine
Into my life, my life, my life

You bring me sunshine, sunshine
You bring me sunshine
(You bring the sunshine)
Don't you know
You bring me sunshine
Into my life, my life, my life

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Jody Watley is a Grammy Award-winning singer, songwriter, and producer that first danced her way to fame at 14-years-old as a dancer on Soul Train. That experience led show host Don Cornelius and booking agent Dick Griffey to place her and fellow dancer Jeffrey Daniel in the group Shalamar in 1977, with lead singer Howard Hewett added to the group in 1979. They produced the hits “Second Time Around,” “Make That Move,” “This is for the Lover in You,” and “A Night to Remember” before Watley left the group in 1983 due to conflict within the group and a lack of payment from Dick Griffey’s SOLAR Records label.

She released her self-titled debut album in 1987 featuring the #1 Dance hits “Don’t You Want Me,” “Some Kind of Lover,” and “Looking for a New Love,” which also peaked at #1 on the R&B Singles chart and #2 on the Pop chart. This album went Platinum and led to her winning the Grammy for Best New Artist in 1988. Her follow-up album Larger Than Life was released in 1989 and featured the Top 10 Pop hits “Everything,” “Friends” with Rakim, and the #1 Dance and R&B hit “Real Love.” She worked on these albums with Prince bassist André Cymone, who she would later marry in 1991 before separating in 1995.

She released nine studio albums between 1987 and 2006, and in 2008, she was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award at the Billboard Music Awards. Her last project was the 2014 EP Paradise on her own Avitone label and she made an appearance on DâM-FunK’s Invite the Light album in 2015 on the track “Virtuous Progression.” She also formed “Shalamar Reloaded” with two new members and continues to tour.

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