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Masters at Work

Index Masters at Work

Masters at Work is the garage house production and remix team of "Little" Louie Vega and Kenny "Dope" Gonzalez. [1]

97 relations: Aaliyah, Ask for More, Barbara Tucker, Beto Cuevas, Björk, Blue Thumb Records, Byron Stingily, CeCe Peniston, Chic (band), Chic Mystique, Crazy Love (CeCe Peniston song), Dance Club Songs, Debbie Gibson, Denise Belfon, Desiya, Disco, DJ Jazzy Jeff, Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough, Donna Summer, Earth, Wind & Fire, Emergency on Planet Earth (song), Erotica (song), Fela Kuti, Freedom Williams, Garage house, George Benson, Get Back, Giant Step, Go Deep, GRP Records, GusGus, Héctor Lavoe, Holler (Spice Girls song), House music, I Feel Love, I Want You Back (Mel B song), James Ingram, Jamiroquai, Janet Jackson, Jazz, Jocelyn Brown, Jody Watley, Kenny "Dope" Gonzalez, La India, Last Dance (Donna Summer song), Lil' Mo' Yin Yang, Lisa Stansfield, Little Louie Vega, Loleatta Holloway, Losin' Myself, ..., Luis Salinas, Madonna (entertainer), Masters at Work, MCA Records, Mel B, Michael Jackson, Michael Watford, Missy Elliott, More Than a Woman (Aaliyah song), Mr. V, Music of Latin America, New York City, Nina Simone, Nuyorican soul, One Step Ahead (Debbie Gibson song), Patti Austin, Puerto Rico, Record chart, Remix, Rock with You, Roy Ayers, Runaway (Nuyorican Soul song), Salsoul Orchestra, Sampling (music), Sea Lion Woman, Secret Life (band), Set Your Loving Free, Single (music), Soul music, Spice Girls, Stephanie Mills, Synthesizer, The Beatles, The Boss (Diana Ross song), The Braxtons, Time to Make You Mine, Tito Puente, Todd Terry, Tommy Boy Records, Vanessa Williams, Very important person, Vincent Montana Jr., Violently Happy, Will Smith, Willi Ninja, Xaviera Gold, 4hero. Expand index (47 more) »

Aaliyah

Aaliyah Dana Haughton (January 16, 1979 – August 25, 2001) was an American singer, actress, and model.

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Ask for More

"Ask for More" is a song performed by Janet Jackson as part of an advertising campaign for soft drink company Pepsi in 1999.

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Barbara Tucker

Barbara Tucker (Brooklyn, New York) is an African American house and soul singer, songwriter and choreographer.

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Beto Cuevas

Luis Alberto Cuevas Olmedo (born September 12, 1967), better known as Beto Cuevas, is a Chilean-Canadian singer, plastic artist, painter, and actor.

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Björk

Björk Guðmundsdóttir (born 21 November 1965) is an Icelandic singer, songwriter, actress, record producer, and DJ.

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Blue Thumb Records

Blue Thumb Records was an American record label founded in 1968 by Bob Krasnow and former A&M Records executives Tommy LiPuma and Don Graham.

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Byron Stingily

Byron Stingily is an African American R&B and house-music singer born in Chicago, Illinois, known for his falsetto voice.

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CeCe Peniston

Cecilia Veronica "CeCe" Peniston (born September 6, 1969) is an American recording artist and former beauty queen.

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Chic (band)

Chic, currently called Nile Rodgers & Chic, is an American band that was organized during 1976 by guitarist Nile Rodgers and bassist Bernard Edwards.

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Chic Mystique

"Chic Mystique" is a song by American disco and R&B act Chic.

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Crazy Love (CeCe Peniston song)

"Crazy Love" is a 1992 song by the musician CeCe Peniston, released on her debut album Finally on A&M Records.

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Dance Club Songs

The Dance Club Songs chart is a weekly chart published exclusively by Billboard in the United States.

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Debbie Gibson

Deborah Ann "Debbie" Gibson (born August 31, 1970) is an American singer-songwriter, record producer and actress.

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Denise Belfon

Denise "Saucy Wow" Belfon (born 23 November 1968, in Trinidad) is a soca and contemporary R&B songwriter and dancer.

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Desiya

Desiya was a dance- and house-music project that was fronted by the DJ-remixer-producer Matthew Parkhouse from New York and featured Melissa Yiannakou (now De Sa) on vocals.

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Disco

Disco is a musical style that emerged in the mid 1960s and early 1970s from America's urban nightlife scene, where it originated in house parties and makeshift discothèques, reaching its peak popularity between the mid-1970s and early 1980s.

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DJ Jazzy Jeff

Jeffrey Allen Townes (born January 22, 1965), known professionally as DJ Jazzy Jeff or simply Jazz, is an American record producer, DJ, actor and comedian who is best known for his friendship and collaboration with Will Smith as DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince.

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Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough

"Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough" is a single written and recorded by American singer Michael Jackson.

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Donna Summer

LaDonna Adrian Gaines (December 31, 1948May 17, 2012), widely known by her stage name Donna Summer, was an American singer, songwriter, and painter.

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Earth, Wind & Fire

Earth, Wind & Fire (EWF) is an American band that has spanned the musical genres of R&B, soul, funk, jazz, disco, pop, rock, Latin, and Afro pop.

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Emergency on Planet Earth (song)

"Emergency on Planet Earth" is the fourth and final single released from British funk/acid jazz band Jamiroquai's debut studio album, of the same name.

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Erotica (song)

"Erotica" is a song by American singer and songwriter Madonna.

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Fela Kuti

Fela Anikulapo Kuti (15 October 1938 – 2 August 1997), also professionally known as Fela Kuti, or simply Fela, was a Nigerian multi-instrumentalist, musician, composer, pioneer of the Afrobeat music genre, human rights activist, and political maverick.

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Freedom Williams

Frederick Brandon Williams (born February 13, 1968), better known by his stage name Freedom Williams is an American hip hop and dance music performer, who gained fame as the lead vocalist on C+C Music Factory's biggest hits.

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Garage house

Garage house (originally known as "garage music"; also "New York house") is a dance music style that was developed alongside house music.

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George Benson

George Benson (born March 22, 1943) is an American guitarist, singer, and songwriter.

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Get Back

"Get Back" is a song recorded by the Beatles and written by Paul McCartney (though credited to Lennon-McCartney), originally released as a single on 11 April 1969 and credited to "The Beatles with Billy Preston." A different mix of the song later became the closing track of Let It Be (1970), which was the Beatles' last album released just after the group split.

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Giant Step

Giant Step is a media, events and marketing company headquartered in New York City.

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Go Deep

"Go Deep" is a song by American singer Janet Jackson from her sixth studio album, The Velvet Rope (1997).

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GRP Records

GRP Records (Grusin-Rosen Productions) is a jazz record label founded by Dave Grusin and Larry Rosen in 1978.

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GusGus

GusGus is an electronic band from Reykjavík, Iceland.

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Héctor Lavoe

Héctor Juan Pérez Martínez (September 30, 1946 – June 29, 1993), better known as Héctor Lavoe, was a Puerto Rican salsa singer.

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Holler (Spice Girls song)

"Holler" is a song by English girl group the Spice Girls, released as one of the two songs picked as the lead single from their third studio album, Forever (2000).

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House music

House music is a genre of electronic dance music created by club DJs and music producers in Chicago in the early 1980s.

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I Feel Love

"I Feel Love" is a song by Donna Summer, with production by Giorgio Moroder and Pete Bellotte.

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I Want You Back (Mel B song)

"I Want You Back" is a song by Melanie B, released as her first solo single.

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James Ingram

James Edward Ingram (born February 16, 1952) is an American singer, songwriter, record producer, and instrumentalist.

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Jamiroquai

Jamiroquai are a British jazz-funk band from London, formed in 1992.

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Janet Jackson

Janet Damita Jo Jackson (born May 16, 1966) is an American singer, songwriter, dancer, and actress.

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Jazz

Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, United States, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and developed from roots in blues and ragtime.

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Jocelyn Brown

Jocelyn Lorette Brown (born November 25, 1950), sometimes credited as Jocelyn Shaw, is an American R&B and dance singer.

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Jody Watley

Jody Vanessa Watley (born January 30, 1959) is an American singer, songwriter, record producer, and trendsetting artist in music, video, and styleUSA Today (February 16, 1996), Best Bets: Albums Jody Watley Greatest Hits, "Few singers fired up the disco like Jody Watley who set trends and standards for fashion and music in the late 80s.." USA Today Life Section whose music crosses genres including pop, R&B, jazz, dance, and electronic soul.

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Kenny "Dope" Gonzalez

Kenny "Dope" Gonzalez (born July 5, 1970) - also sometimes known as K-Dope - is an American record producer and disc jockey.

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La India

Linda Viera Caballero (born March 9, 1969), better known as India (or La India in Latin America and some Spanish speakers), is a Puerto Rican singer and songwriter of salsa, House music and Latin pop.

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Last Dance (Donna Summer song)

"Last Dance" is a song by American singer Donna Summer from the soundtrack album to the 1978 film Thank God It's Friday.

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Lil' Mo' Yin Yang

Lil' Mo' Yin Yang is a collaborative house-music act of producers and DJs Erick Morillo and Masters At Work's Little Louie Vega.

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Lisa Stansfield

Lisa Jane Stansfield (born 11 April 1966) is an English singer, songwriter and actress.

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Little Louie Vega

Luis Ferdinand Vega Jr. (born June 12, 1965), better known as "Little Louie" Vega, is an American DJ, record producer and remixer of Puerto Rican ancestry.

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Loleatta Holloway

Loleatta Holloway (November 5, 1946 – March 21, 2011) was an American singer, mainly known for disco songs such as "Hit and Run" and "Love Sensation", both of which have been sampled extensively.

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Losin' Myself

"Losin' Myself" is the first single from the album Body, Mind, Soul by American singer-songwriter-actress Deborah Gibson, released in January 1993.

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Luis Salinas

Luis Salinas is an Argentine jazz guitarist who plays electric and nylon string guitars.

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Madonna (entertainer)

Madonna Louise Ciccone (born August 16, 1958) is an American singer, songwriter, actress, and businesswoman.

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Masters at Work

Masters at Work is the garage house production and remix team of "Little" Louie Vega and Kenny "Dope" Gonzalez.

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MCA Records

MCA Records was an American record label owned by MCA Inc., which later gave way to the larger MCA Music Entertainment Group (now Universal Music Group), which the label was part of until its dissolution in 2003.

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Mel B

Melanie Janine Brown (born 29 May 1975), also known as Mel B or Melanie B, is an English singer, songwriter, actress, and television personality.

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Michael Jackson

Michael Joseph Jackson (August 29, 1958 – June 25, 2009) was an American singer, songwriter, and dancer.

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Michael Watford

Michael Watford is an African American dance music singer, who was born in Virginia and raised in New Jersey.

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Missy Elliott

Melissa Arnette Elliott (born July 1, 1971), better known as Missy "Misdemeanor" Elliott, is an American rapper, singer, dancer and record producer.

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More Than a Woman (Aaliyah song)

"More Than a Woman" is a song performed by American recording artist Aaliyah.

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Mr. V

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Music of Latin America

The music of Latin America refers to music originating from Latin America, namely the Romance-speaking countries and territories of the Americas and the Caribbean south of the United States.

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New York City

The City of New York, often called New York City (NYC) or simply New York, is the most populous city in the United States.

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Nina Simone

Nina Simone (born Eunice Kathleen Waymon; February 21, 1933 – April 21, 2003) was an American singer, songwriter, pianist, arranger, and activist in the Civil Rights Movement.

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Nuyorican soul

Nuyorican soul is jazz and house music performed by Stateside Puerto Rican (Nuyorican) groups and artists that originated in the 1990s with themes derived from Nuyorican culture.

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One Step Ahead (Debbie Gibson song)

"One Step Ahead" (Atlantic 87677; Atlantic UK A7677; Atlantic Japan AMDY-5054) is the fourth single from the 1990 album Anything Is Possible (LP 82167) by American singer-songwriter-actress Deborah Gibson.

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Patti Austin

Patti Austin (born August 10, 1950) is a Grammy Award-winning American R&B, pop and jazz singer.

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Puerto Rico

Puerto Rico (Spanish for "Rich Port"), officially the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico (Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, "Free Associated State of Puerto Rico") and briefly called Porto Rico, is an unincorporated territory of the United States located in the northeast Caribbean Sea.

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Record chart

A record chart, also called a music chart, is a ranking of recorded music according to certain criteria during a given period of time.

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Remix

A remix is a piece of media which has been altered from its original state by adding, removing, and/or changing pieces of the item.

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Rock with You

"Rock with You" is a song recorded by American singer Michael Jackson.

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Roy Ayers

Roy Ayers (born September 10, 1940) is an American funk, soul, and jazz composer and vibraphone player.

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Runaway (Nuyorican Soul song)

"Runaway" is a 1996 song by Nuyorican Soul, a project by the house-garage production and remix team of "Little" Louie Vega and Kenny "Dope" Gonzalez.

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Salsoul Orchestra

The Salsoul Orchestra was the backing band of session musicians for many acts on New York City label, Salsoul Records and, under its own name, recorded several hit singles and albums between 1975 and 1982.

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Sampling (music)

In music, sampling is the act of taking a portion, or sample, of one sound recording and reusing it as an instrument or a sound recording in a different song or piece.

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Sea Lion Woman

"Sea Lion Woman" (also "Sea-Line Woman", "See Lyin' Woman", "She Lyin' Woman", "See-Line Woman", or "C-Line Woman") is a traditional American folk song originally used as a children's playground song.

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Secret Life (band)

Secret Life was a British R&B/house and pop band active from 1991 to 1996, particularly popular in the UK and Europe.

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Set Your Loving Free

"Set Your Loving Free" is a song recorded by British singer Lisa Stansfield for her 1991 album, Real Love.

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Single (music)

In music, a single, record single or music single is a type of release, typically a song recording of fewer tracks than an LP record, an album or an EP record.

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Soul music

Soul music (often referred to simply as soul) is a popular music genre that originated in the African American community in the United States in the late 1950s and early 1960s.

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Spice Girls

The Spice Girls are an English pop girl group formed in 1994.

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Stephanie Mills

Stephanie Dorthea Mills (born March 22, 1957) is an American Grammy award–winning singer, songwriter and Broadway stage actress.

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Synthesizer

A synthesizer (often abbreviated as synth, also spelled synthesiser) is an electronic musical instrument that generates electric signals that are converted to sound through instrument amplifiers and loudspeakers or headphones.

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The Beatles

The Beatles were an English rock band formed in Liverpool in 1960.

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The Boss (Diana Ross song)

"The Boss" is a 1979 disco song written and produced by Ashford & Simpson and recorded by singer Diana Ross, who released it as a single on the Motown label.

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The Braxtons

The Braxtons are singer Toni Braxton and her sisters, Traci Braxton, Towanda Braxton, Trina Braxton, and Tamar Braxton.

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Time to Make You Mine

"Time to Make You Mine" is a song recorded by British singer Lisa Stansfield for her 1991 album, Real Love.

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Tito Puente

Ernesto Antonio "Tito" Puente (April 20, 1923 – May 31, 2000) was an American musician, songwriter and record producer.

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Todd Terry

Todd N. Terry (born April 18, 1967) is an American DJ, record producer and remixer.

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Tommy Boy Records

Tommy Boy Music is an American independent record label founded in 1981 by Tom Silverman.

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Vanessa Williams

Vanessa Lynn Williams (born March 18, 1963) is an American actress, singer and fashion designer.

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Very important person

A very important person (VIP) is a person who is accorded special privileges due to their status or importance.

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Vincent Montana Jr.

Vincent Montana Jr. (February 12, 1928 – April 13, 2013), known as Vince Montana, was an American composer, arranger, vibraphonist, and percussionist, best known as a member of MFSB and as the founder of the Salsoul Orchestra.

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Violently Happy

"Violently Happy" is a song by Icelandic singer Björk, released as the fifth and final single from her album Debut in 1994.

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Will Smith

Willard Carroll Smith Jr. (born September 25, 1968) is an American actor, producer, rapper, comedian, and songwriter.

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Willi Ninja

Willi Ninja (April 12, 1961 – September 2, 2006) was an American dancer and choreographer best known for his appearance in the documentary film Paris is Burning.

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Xaviera Gold

Xaviera Gold is a female African American dance music singer who is a former DJ and mixer on Chicago's WBMX-FM.

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4hero

4hero are an electronic music group from Dollis Hill, London, comprising producers Mark "Marc Mac" Clair & Denis "Dego" McFarlane.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masters_at_Work

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