Jody Watley

I want your love, I want your love
I want your love, I want your love

Do you feel like you ever want
To try my love and see how well it fits
Baby can't you see, when you look at me
I can't shake this feelin' when it hits
All alone in my bed at night
I grab my pillow and squeeze it tight
I think of you
And I dream of you all the time
What am I gonna do

I want your love, I want your love
I want your love, I want your love
I want your love, I want your love
I want your love, I want your love

Sometime, don't you feel like you
Never really had a love that's real
Well, here I am, and who's to say
A better love you won't find today
Just one chance and I will show you love
Like no other, two steps above
On your ladder
I'll be a peg
I want your loving
Please don't make me beg

I want your love, I want your love
I want your love, I want your love
I want your love, I want your love
I want your love, I want your love
I want your love, I need your love

I'll share my dreams
And make you see
How really bad your love I need
I want your love, I need your love
Just like the birds in the sky above
I'll share my dreams
And make you see
How really bad your love I need

I want your love, I want your love
I want your love, I want your love
I want your love, I want your love
I want your love, I want your love

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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