Word: watley
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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Because there's Jody Watley, 30, godchild of soul great Jackie Wilson. With six Top Ten singles from her first two records, she is hard at work not only on a new album (due out by year's end) but also on keeping the lines drawn and the competitive edge keen. "Janet and Paula are more similar to each other than I am," she says. "They both are much more accomplished dancers than I am. They are more commercially successful than I am. I'm innovative, sort of the renegade of the bunch. I have shorter hair. I have...
...stepsisterly debt to Madonna. They are singers who have molded a slick look, cool moves and a crafty urban sound into a commanding cultural presence. One crucial difference is that Madonna now dwells in the realms of rarefied pop; she is a totem of high fashion. Jackson, Abdul, Watley and Estefan have a more vigorous immediacy. They seem, whatever their success, cozier with the kids, closer to the street corner...
With slick looks, cool moves and a crafty urban sound, singers Janet Jackson, Paula Abdul, Jody Watley and Gloria Estefan have danced to the top of the charts...
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