Carrie Lucas
b. Carmel, California, USA. This sensuous soul and disco stylist started as a backing singer with the Whispers and did backing vocals on record for D.J. Rogers. She also wrote songs recorded by R&B acts, the Whispers, the Soul Train Gang and South Shore Commission before joining the Soul Train label in 1976. Her first chart record and biggest hit was the disco smash I Gotta Keep Dancin’, released simply under the name Carrie in 1977. Two years later Dance With You on Solar, (formerly Soul Train) also made the lower reaches of the Top 100 and gave her a UK Top 40 entry. Over the next six years she registered four US Top 200 album entries and a further five R&B chart singles. The biggest of these being her revival (with the Whispers) of Barbara Lewis's Hello Stranger, which reached the Top 20 in 1985 on Constellation Records. Lucas, who is married to Solar Records head Dick Griffey, has now put her singing career on ice.