Judy Cheeks is a female dance music singer born in Miami, Florida and is the daughter of gospel singer and preacher Rev. Julius Cheeks. In 1978 she hit #10 on the Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart with “Mellow Lovin’,” and then had a career resurgence in the nineties, when she re-emerged with a string of dance chart hits, including two #1s in 1995: “Respect” and “As Long As You’re Good To Me” as well as “Reach”, which appeared on the “Summer Hitmix ‘94” CD released by ZYX records.|1978 album “Mellow Lovin’” was produced by Anthony Monn (of gay icon Amanda Lear fame) in Giorgio Moroder’s legendary Musicland Studios in Munich. Cheeks also appears as a backing vocalist on Lear’s 1979 album Never Trust A Pretty Face and on Boney M.’s Ten Thousand Lightyears and Kalimba de Luna - 16 Happy Songs as a member of vocal trio La Mama.
Discography|Albums|“Judy Cheeks” (1973) |“Mellow Lovin’” (1978) |“No Outsiders” (1988) |“Respect” (1996)
Singles|“Mellow Lovin’” (1978) US #65, US Dance #10 |“I Still Love You” (1988) UK #98 |“So In Love (The Real Deal)” (1993) UK #27 |“Reach” (1994) UK #17 |“Take Time/Respect” (1995) UK #23, US Dance #1 (“Respect”) |“You’re The Story Of My Life/As Long As You’re Good To Me” (1995) UK #30, US Dance #1 (“As Long As You’re Good To Me”) |“Reach” (remix) (1996) UK #22 |
