Safire

Although she didn’t score as much pop crossovers as groups like Exposé or the Cover Girls, Safire’s string of later-’80s club hits helped produce her among Latin freestyle’s most well-known female performers. Delivered Wilma Cosme in San Juan, Puerto Rico, she was raised mainly in East Harlem and started her singing profession as a program vocalist. She was uncovered at an audition for the Slicing Information label, which earned her the opportunity to record the already-waiting one “Don’t Break My Center.” Released in 1986, it became an instantaneous freestyle traditional, as do the early-1987 follow-up “I WANT TO Be the main one” (which she co-wrote). The achievement of both singles helped Safire property a cope with Mercury, where she documented her self-titled debut record. Released in 1988, Sa-Fire highlighted her two prior hits, in addition to the even more effective “Boy I AM Told,” that was penned by Latin superstar Marc Anthony, and became a substantial success on metropolitan radio and in night clubs over the U.S. and European countries. The ballad “Thinking about You,” which she also co-wrote, became her biggest pop crossover in early 1989, peaking at amount 12 and experiencing significant radio airplay. Mercury didn’t press the dance-oriented follow-up “Like Is on her behalf Brain” quite as hard, and it stalled her mainstream momentum, though she remained popular in the freestyle community. Safire’s second record, I Wasn’t Delivered Yesterday, premiered in 1990, around enough time that freestyle’s existence around the pop graphs had begun to decrease. Mainstream dance-pop and home music were overtaking its previous viewers, and I Wasn’t Delivered Last night couldn’t perform up to the amount of commercial achievement its predecessor acquired enjoyed, even regardless of the house-influenced one “Flavor the Bass.” Using the freestyle picture no longer growing, Safire remained noiseless for a couple of years. She came back in 1996 — agreed upon to Sony no much longer showing off a hyphen — with a far more simple Latin dance record; Atrevida combined salsa with hip-hop rhythms. In 2001, Safire released Getting Back again the Groove, a combined mix of new materials and remixes of her previous strikes. Both “Don’t Break My Center 2002” and the brand new ballad duet “IS IT POSSIBLE TO Stand the Rainfall” (originally by New Model, offering longtime friend Cynthia) arrived some airplay among metropolitan and Latin channels.