Sheila E.

Released: February 19, 1987

Songwriter: Sheila E. Prince

Producer: David Z. Prince

Hi Suzie, this is Sheila
What U gonna do 2night?
Stay home and watch The Honeymooners?
Ah, girl
Later 4 U
I'm gonna go 2 the Boy's Club

Let me tell U 'bout this club I know
They got all the men
All the dough
They really can't dance and they ain't 2 bright
But the girls don't mind if the money's right

Some are cute and some are not
But that don't matter cuz the music's hot
Can't help dancin' when U feel the beat
U can't help watchin' cuz U feel the heat

A girl with 4 legs
That's the best
U better look twice
There's someone under her dress

Boy's Club
Meet me later at the Boy's Club
Boy's Club
Meet me later at the Boy's Club

Yeah
U're kinda cute
But it's about the perfume
Confusion in your bathroom

Oh, yeah
He just asked me 4 a match
And I said
"Yeah, U're face and my shoes"

He said, "U just ruined my night"
And I said
"Yeah, just think
U could be at home watchin' The Honeymooners
Wanna dance?"

Light skinned boys
Think they're so bad
They drink Evian
Listen 2 jazz

At home
They like symphonies
But when they're at the club
It's Sheila E
(Sheila E.)

Boy's Club
Meet me later at the Boy's Club
Boy's Club
Meet me later at the Boy's Club
(Please)

Boy's Club
Meet me later at the Boy's Club
Boy's Club
Meet me later at the Boy's Club
(Please)

Can't help dancin' when U feel the beat
Boy's Club
Meet me later at the Boy's Club
Boy's Club
Meet me later at the Boy's Club
Can't help watchin' cuz U feel the heat

A girl with 4 legs
That's the best
U better look twice
There's someone under her dress

Boy's Club

Boy's Club
Meet me later at the Boy's Club
Boy's Club
Meet me later at the Boy's Club
(Please)

Light skinned boys
Think they're so bad
They drink Evian
Listen 2 jazz

At home
They like symphonies
When they're at the club, they like me
(Please)

Boy's Club
Meet me later at the Boy's Club
Boy's Club

Can't help dancin' when U feel the beat
U can't help watchin' when U feel the heat

A girl with 4 legs
That's the best
U better look twice
There's someone under my dress

(Hey)
Hey, get outta here
(Hey boy, get outta there)

Sheila E., born Sheila Escovedo on December 12, 1957, is a singer, songwriter, and percussionist from Oakland, California. Her honorific title is “The Queen of Percussion”.

The daughter of a Mexican jazz percussionist and Creole/African-American factory worker, Sheila comes from a family of musical royalty – father Pete Escovedo and uncle Coke were members of the Santana band for a time. Her other uncles are Alejandro, who has had a sustained alt-punk career; Javier, who led the early punk pioneer band The Zeros; and Mario, who fronted the 90s group The Dragons and MEX, aka Mario Escovedo Xperience. Sheila’s brothers Juan and Peter Michael are also percussionists, with Peter working on The Wayne Brady Show. Sheila is the goddaughter of Tito Puente, a Latin Jazz pioneer and Spanish Harlem legend.

“Before I had language, I had rhythm,” she wrote in The Beat Of My Own Drum, a 2014 memoir. “I learned it before I learned my mother tongue.” At the age of 20, Sheila became a member of George Duke’s R&B jazz band, and worked with him from 1976 to 1980, during Duke’s early Epic/CBS years. By the age of 26, she had already worked or toured with Marvin Gaye, Herbie Hancock, Diana Ross, and family friend Lionel Richie.

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