Friday Night Divas

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Experience ladies' night like never before! Join Atlanta Pride for the Friday Night Divas show.  Featuring Exposé, Frenchie Davis, CeCe Peniston and Thelma Houston, this night is sure to be fun for all.

EXPOSE

After the tremendous response of their first two singles, "Point of No Return" and "Exposed To Love", it was clear that an entirely new era of dance music was about to spread around the world. Some called it "The Miami Sound", others referred to it as Freestyle, 80's Dance, Dance/Pop. We knew them as Exposé and one thing was for certain...music would never be the same again.

Exposé consists of the original vocalists: Ann Curless, Gioia Bruno and Jeanette Jurado. The touring band, under the Musical Direction of Steve Fansler, features Tony De Augustine on drums, Doug Turley on bass guitar, former Oingo Boingo keyboardist Mike Bacich, and Steve Fansler on guitar.

CECE PENISTON

CeCe began her recording career with A&M Records. Her debut album, Finally, achieved U.S. RIAA GOLD certification. The album's first single, "Finally" was a #1 Billboard hit and went multi-platinum worldwide. In addition to being featured on more than thirty compilation albums, CeCe thrust passed the one-hit wonder mark and continued to achieve Billboard Top Ten status with singles like: "We Got A Love Thang", "Keep On Walkin", I'm Not Over You" and her hit single released in 2001 "Lifetime To Love" which skyrocketed to #2 on the Billboard charts. All of her other singles released have achieved Top 40 status including: "Inside That I Cried", "Crazy Love", "I'm In The Mood", "Hit By Love", "Movin' On", "Before I Lay (You Drive Me Crazy)" with MCA recording artist JoJo of KC & JoJo, "I Know That He Loves Me Too" and "Nobody Else".

CeCe Peniston has just begun to make her mark on the world. She has established herself as one of the paramount artists of the nineties and of the new century.

FRENCHIE

Frenchie Davis was born in Los Angeles, California She began as a theatre student at Washington DC’s Howard University. While studying there, she got her first acting/singing job playing one of the street urchins in a production of Little Shop of Horrors with a small theatre company in Germany. The same German company later rehired her for a production of Jesus Christ Superstar, the following year. After her return to the states, she auditioned for American Idol...and was flown to LA, made her mark on the show, and turned out to be a huge favorite with America to win the show.

Frenchie worked in 2003 as a “Grammy” correspondent for Entertainment Tonight and performed the song “And I Am Telling You" on the set of ET for the show as well. She was then cast in the Broadway show RENT, she took a leave of absence to portray the role of “Effie White” in the West coast tour of the play DreamGirls. Frenchie is currently in the process of starting to record her “debut” Cd, which will be a combination of the “classics,” “broadway” and a few new “original” songs.

THELMA HOUSTON

Thelma’s breakthrough into mainstream recognition and international acceptance came after she signed with Motown Records in the 70’s. After recording the theme for the Richard Pryor hit movie, “The Bingo Long Song,” Thelma hit the top of the pop, R&B and dance charts with her high-powered rendition of “Don’t Leave Me This Way” (originally recorded by Harold Melvin & The Bluenotes). A gold single, the now-classic song gave Thelma the distinction of being the first solo female artist at Motown to win a Grammy Award for “Best R&B Female Vocal Performance” in 1977 and virtually took her around the world. A few of her other hits include: “Saturday Night, Sunday Morning,” “I Can’t Go On Living Without Your Love,” “I’m Here Again,” and “If You Feel It.”

Known for her emotive style and passionate delivery, Thelma showed her musical versatility with the jazz-flavored “If It’s The Last Thing I Do,” a Top 20 R&B in 1977, recording a couple of albums with soul legend Jerry Butler at Motown before scoring further success at RCA and MCA records in the 80’s. It was at MCA that she gave then-fledgling producers Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis one of their first Top 20 R&B hits with the dance jam “You Used To Hold Me So Tight” and Thelma ended the decade with a rousing gospel-flavored version of Bill Withers’ “Lean On Me”, recorded with The Winans and featured in the hit movie of the same name starring Morgan Freeman.

BEFORE YOU DIVA

6pm – 8:30pm.

Pre-Party

Gay.com Plaza

DJ Bill Berdeaux (WETbar, Blake’s & Backstreet

Host: Key West’s own Randy Thompson