Amii Stewart is tagged as: disco, pop, 70s, female vocalists, 80s Amy Paulette Stewart (born January 29, 1956 in Washington D.C.) is an American Pop singer and actress. Amii Stewart’s father signed her up for singing and dancing lessons from the age of four. This eventually led to her break into the music industry, recording Disco music. Before being signed onto Ariola Records, Stewart appeared in the stage production Bubbling Brown Sugar on Broadway, Her first single, a disco cover version of the Eddie Floyd hit “Knock On Wood”, reached number one in the U.S. in April 1979, and earned her a platinum record and a Grammy Award nomination. It was her only Top 10 American hit single, and she was dismissed there as a one hit wonder. She fared better on the R&B charts and Dance charts where Stewart continued to chart singles into the 1980s. However, in Europe she established herself as a popular performer during the disco era of the late 1970s, scoring her highest chart placing in the UK singles chart with another disco cover version, of The Doors’ “Light My Fire” (released as “Light My Fire/137 Disco Heaven”), which reached number five in 1979. Further singles such as “Jealousy”, which was a mix of the fading out disco and the New Wave and Hi-NRG hititng the dancefloors, conti... Read More About Amii Stewart Biography...  Send Amii Stewart ringtones to your cell
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