Diane charlemagne biography

Musical artist

Diane Charlemagne (22 February 1964 – 28 October 2015)^[1] was a British jazz, soul, funk and electronic dance music singer and songwriter.

Biography

Charlemagne was lead singer with 1980s funkband52nd Street, having replaced previous lead vocalist Beverley McDonald in 1984. In 1990, 52nd Street re-emerged as Cool Down Zone, with Charlemagne providing vocals as well as having writing credits on all 10 songs on their album New Direction.

Later she was lead singer with , who had two UKTop 10 hits in the 1990s.^[1]

Charlemagne provided the vocals for Goldie's "Inner City Life",^[2] and performed vocals for Moby for many of his live shows.^[1]

In 2006, she collaborated with Scape on the house track and dance chart hit Be My Friend (as D Empress).

2007, she collaborated with High Contrast on his track "If We Ever" for the album Tough Guys Don't Dance. The following year she worked with D:Ream, who had