Female titans of '90s house music on their fight to be seen
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 29 มิ.ย. 2023
- ABC News contributor Rocsi Diaz sits down with CeCe Peniston, Crystal Waters, Robin S, Martha Wash & Thea Austin to reflect on their journey as female writers and vocalists of house music in the 1990s.
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Martha Wash, Crystal Waters, Cece Peniston, Robin S., and Thea really made the 90s such a great decade for dance/house music. Glad to see them all still going strong.
I just got chills. I was age 20-25 then.
Everyone has heard at least one of their songs. Worldwide.
AND THEA AUSTIN....OMG YALL Im 46 THESE WERE OUR SONGS
@@sobreezymimi7622 I’m 45, and you’re so right.
Never forget one more singer who had gone too soon, Loleatta Holloway.
"Rhythm is a Dancer" transports you right back into the 90s the seconds you hear it. Still holds up to this day!
Yes, still sounds fresh, and better than 90% of the stuff on the radio today.
Still my fav from all these! Such an awesome song.
That song gives me chills. That song does something to my soul. I listen to dance music to this day when I work out.
yes!
Oh absolutely. And I had some idea back then that thin lady was not singing that song. Same way they effed around using Jocelyn Brown's vocals on The Power. Anyway, props to Thea Austin!!
Martha is the voice of a generation. These ladies need to tour and cover each other.
Great idea
I know a dance diva tour .
I hated those videos for featuring models over the original artist.
Martha stood alone in the eye of the storm.
they need to go on tour together!
Yes! Agreed!
I'm definitely gonna be there if they do!
Excellent idea!!!❤
The Forum in LA is ready!!
YES
These ladies kept me dancing throughout the 90’s. They deserve their flowers.
You tell it!!!
Crowns, too!
house music in general deserve it's flowers... probably the must taken-for-granted genre in modern times...
💐🌸🌺
I grew up on R&B, funk, rap, and I was a mean-mugging football player. But I loved house music when I first starting hearing it in high school. 😂 Loved these ladies. Still do!
People may not realize this, but those women in that room have the most powerful voices in the world of music..... clap back if you feel me!!!
May GOD bless and protect you in the mighty name of JESUS! May GOD and JESUS break every chain the enemy has formed against you and liberate you! May GOD and JESUS fill you with the HOLY SPIRIT, GODliness, love to get through any challenge or struggle or addiction! GOD IS GOOD! JESUS IS GOOD! GOD is love in times of hate, GOD is strength in times of weakness, GOD is light in times of darkness, GOD is harmony in times of chaos, and GOD is all you need and more! If you need more love/strength/anything GOD is there! GOD LOVES YOU JESUS LOVES YOU! GOD BLESS YOU AND PROTECT YOU IN THE MIGHTY NAME OF JESUS!
@@soy_0scar7Thank u,God bless u az well,Peace.👍🏿
No autotuned, no mixer to enhance an already voice of perfection, this is the legacy
The ending gave me chills. The entertainment industry is still this way. It’s very hard for women to break through. These ladies are the groundbreakers and djs still rock their tracks thirty years later!💪💄
Women? How about black people…y’all always trying that feminist bs
May GOD bless and protect you in the mighty name of JESUS! May GOD and JESUS break every chain the enemy has formed against you and liberate you! May GOD and JESUS fill you with the HOLY SPIRIT, GODliness, love to get through any challenge or struggle or addiction! GOD IS GOOD! JESUS IS GOOD! GOD is love in times of hate, GOD is strength in times of weakness, GOD is light in times of darkness, GOD is harmony in times of chaos, and GOD is all you need and more! If you need more love/strength/anything GOD is there! GOD LOVES YOU JESUS LOVES YOU! GOD BLESS YOU AND PROTECT YOU IN THE MIGHTY NAME OF JESUS!
I don't think it's hard for women to break through - I think it's hard for the larger ladies to break through - and it makes me angry - talent is talent - too many women singers not wearing enough clothes - skimpy outfits = anorexia in the teenage fans - don't get me started on the clothes horse industry -
This was HISTORIC 🫨They are are legends 🪩🎉💃🏻 and their music will live on for generations 🫶🏼
Couldn’t agree more!! ❤️🎼❤️
This was at time when i realize I was GAY AS HElll. I wish these days would come back again. These ladies are on my place list where ever Daddy goes.
Beautiful and Historic 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
Love for generations? Sorry, but no.
@@mwfmtnman who hurt you?
I remember seeing Martha Wash perform at a club event. They were having audio issues. She was so professional and just started belting it out with no mic. Her voice was so powerful that no one even notice. Then the mic was fixed and everyone was like "wow, what a voice!"
She just superbad!!! ❤
I was a fitness trainer in the 90”s-2000’s…These ladies were my go-to artists for the best workout music ever! My classes were always packed & this music had a lot to do with it! ❤
Oh my goodness, hearing Robin S sing made me tear up. These women are amazing1
I owned a record store from 1999-2012 which were the best years of my life. I worked with each one of these legends at some point during those years. One of my best memories was doing an in-store signing with Martha Wash. She is a queen and I felt she should be treated like one. So I rented a huge over the top crushed velvet queen's throne from a Hollywood prop house for her to sit at while she did her autographing. When she came in and saw her throne, she was mortified. She said "I can't sit there... " she was so humbled and modest. We eventually talked her into it and what do you know, everyone loved it and felt she deserved it... just like I did! Good times.
How were the others
People would have been mad at you if you didn’t have a throne for her.lol😊
Aaawww, how sweet! That made me cry. I love people like that. Just existing in greatness. No fuss, no muss, just joy and talent!
So cool! What was the name of your record store?
I love that you did this!!!! 😍🥺
OMG Robin S that VOICE!!!!!! Just DAMNNN. Sent chills down my spine! So much power and clarity in just a few notes!!!!! I love ALL of these ladies and all of their music sooo much!
Exactly!!! Such a strong voice
I watched her video of show me love in big orchestra ... I combusted
@@baileybutterfly320 I agree I love all the ladies though but her voice is amazing
I thought that they had cut to a recording. Her voice!
yeh beautiful
Martha Wash, Crystal Waters and Cece Peniston made some of the greatest records of the 90s (in Martha Wash’s case, 80s as-well and in Crystal’s case 00’s too) decade. Incredible vocalists. Martha really played them at their own game and made bank, as she should, off her music.
Loleatta Holloway
Excellent representation of such a great era in music. There were truly so many, if we could gather them all, we’d fill a stadium.
How about the 80s ladies of the freestyle era? Exposé, Taylor Dayne, Cover Girls, Lisa Lisa, Sweet Sensation, Nayobe.
They’re all still actively touring and performing and they so deserve recognition for coming up in an even tougher era for women in music.
Oh I'd be there
How did you forget Shannon?
Thank you for bringing up those ladies. So underrated.
OMG, i need the longer version of this interview. These women are legends, iconic powerhouses of the genre. The best that ever did it. Thank you gma3 for bringing these beautiful women together to share their stories.
That WAS the whole interview.
@@roderickstockdale1678 Shameful!
@@DuskyJewel it is what it is
@@DuskyJewel how many of their albums do you own?
@@juanshaftpatel7488 I am 53 years old. I have actual albums, along with cassettes, and CDs. FO with that mess 🙄🙄.
These women are indeed legends and they broke glass ceilings in the club music/house music genre. 👑❤🔥
...And chairs!?
@nadiaddis1145
Ooh, you’re something. But everyone knows that meat on the bones makes for a fuller sound vocally. 💯
They really didn't. They are mostly one hit wonders... like DeeLite's Groove is in the heart. They are going out of their way to amplify their impact because they were black women.
@@nadiaddis1145 you are a nasty piece of work 🤮
I dont think they broke ceilings as much as they set the bar... house was a niche genre it's crossedover into the mainstream now but they kinda had those first hits that made it out of the clubs into houses and cars
This was so great to see! Martha Wash paved the way for so many in the music industry and she doesn’t get the recognition she deserves. Thank you for sharing your platform with these legends!
This made my heart smile❤ These ladies played a vital role in my high school and college years and I can't thank them enough. Glad to see them getting the flowers the absolutely deserve💐
Don’t forget Melanie Thornton of La Bouche. Melanie died in a place crash near Zurich a few months after Aaliyah in 2001. I am now 50, and I grew up in Virginia Beach when all this music came out in the late 80’s and early 90’s. It captured me. I believe Lose Ends was a bridge from R&B to Techno Dance music. To this day, Rhythm is a Dancer gives me chills. To this day, many black Americans and other black people around the globe who know our music and artists never mention these important Black women to the world of music. To me, music is music. There is no race in music. I listen to heavy metal, hard rock, R&B, a little bit of country, Rap, Reggae, Afro Beats, and so on. I love music. It happened for me when I was in my mothers womb in 72. My mother said my father would put headphones on her belly and would play Jimmy Hendrix. I had no idea as a kid why I loved Jimmy’s music so much until my mother told me this story about 15 years ago. I love music. For a little bit of history, I actually grew up in VA Beach with Timerland and Pharelle Williams. We all used to hang out at Future Record in VA Beach. Future Records belong to Teddy Riley. I saw many stars before they started to come through future records.
So true. I just know Melanie would be sitting there as well
@@SaraShakur94 Absolutely. "Be My Lover" and "Sweet Dreams" are straight up classics of that era.
Awesome. Thanks for sharing!
757!
I feel the same I'm a 43 year old white guy from Florida and I love 80s and 90s Latin Freestyle music. And when I tell people my favorite genre of music they look ate weird orake fun of me saying I should only listen to Rock, metal or country and I tell them I do plus I also live Hip Hop, R&B, dance and pop. No one should ever be regulated to a Specific kind of music just because of your race or color.
THESE ARE THE FUCKING QUEENS
🦗🦗🦗🦗🦗......😳 ummm, maybe its me but i misinterpeted that for a second!
@@smoothoperator7023 ??? no its just u and u liked your own comment
@@melian7403People who like their own comments are weirdos.
This segment should've included Paris Grey, lead singer for Inner City. 5 #1 Billboard dance music hits and the house record "Good Life" is STILL played in dance clubs all over because it's MAGIC. If you really want to check out a mind-blowing house record you have to hear the epic cut "Can You Party?" (often mistaken for being titled "Can You Feel It?") by Royal House. OMG, your speakers will melt !
Inner City came out in 1988 with "Good Life" and were based in the UK.
No, Inner City is from Detroit. They just happen to have hits in UK in both dance and commercial charts(Top 3) before re-exported back to their own home country.
Absolute legends…some of the best dance music ever created
We need a concert with ALL OF THESE TALENTED LADIES💯♥
Even a vegas residency with all 5 of them is more than enough
@@stanbaloas much as I love them, don’t think they’d survive a residency. That’s too grueling for a person who hasn’t been performing constantly
@@Iris-zq5mq these ladies are pro and residency does not mean they will perform everyday. I think 3 times a week is already a lot. It is easier for them to do it there. No travelling from place to place..which is very exhausting
@@stanbalo no one goes to seen them now.. they aint gonna go see them in vegas
@@juanshaftpatel7488 i dont know how old you are but these ladies have hits and can make everybody dance. As a collective they can put on a great show.
This brought tears to my eyes. Those songs are the soundtrack to my high school years. I remember one of the KC radio stations would play nothing but house music on Friday nights, so we would listen as we cruised. Didn't matter whose car we were in, we listened to that station.
Me too, sister!
OMG! I STILL listen to their hits like they came out yesterday! 'Way back in elementary' in the words of Tupac, I fell in love with house music and the love will NEVER die! ❤❤❤❤❤
no tears over here. confession: I felt it welling up shook it off. lol these women are absolute icons.
They (if they haven’t already) hook up with Farrell. Or the other way around..
*I.*
*HAVE.*
*GOOSEBUMPS.*
I am a club goer from the 90's, I still have CD's of all these talented and beautiful artists, they could put their voices out today and they'd still be chart toppers. ❤
Wow 🤩! These Queens were the voices of the 90s!!!! True living legends and it’s not to be questioned!
Legends, period. Crystal Waters was one of my introductions to house as a kid in the 90s. And who doesn't know Martha Wash's voice? All of them are true talents.
As a New York City club rat in 1980s and ‘90s, I absolutely with my whole heart give these ladies their 🌹🌸💐🌺🌷🥀🌼 🌺🪻. These ladies are among the G.O.A.T. who brought me years of so much joy and priceless precious memories that I still smile about this very day! Queens all in the true sense of the word. 👑👑❤👑👑❤️👑👑👑❤️
Legends. They should go on tour sometime. 90s house music was the best!
These women are icons! I didn’t even know all there names but I’ve heard so many remix’s with their vocals and these are the songs that have got me moving the most! RESPECT!
You have my total respect for giving these Iconic women space at YOUR table. Honestly, they should have a whole 10-part documentary. These are just a few of the women who had historic impact on dance music history.
For real. Their music is timeless and still makes me wanna get up and dance each time I hear it! Legends, one and all.
💯💯
Excatly! We really need more of this! These ladies are true Queens! Sending you Countless blessings and love all the way from Amsterdam 🙏🏿🫶🏿🫶🏿🫶🏿🫶🏿🫶🏿🫶🏿💐💐💐💐💐💐💐
I’d love a documentary about these women
@@treyb2919 That'd be cool.
Goosebumps! Seeing them together is AWESOME!! Give them their flowers, and then give them more flowers!! Legends, icons!
Facts!!😀
May GOD bless and protect you in the mighty name of JESUS! May GOD and JESUS break every chain the enemy has formed against you and liberate you! May GOD and JESUS fill you with the HOLY SPIRIT, GODliness, love to get through any challenge or struggle or addiction! GOD IS GOOD! JESUS IS GOOD! GOD is love in times of hate, GOD is strength in times of weakness, GOD is light in times of darkness, GOD is harmony in times of chaos, and GOD is all you need and more! If you need more love/strength/anything GOD is there! GOD LOVES YOU JESUS LOVES YOU! GOD BLESS YOU AND PROTECT YOU IN THE MIGHTY NAME OF JESUS!
@@rockieleftwingMay GOD bless and protect you in the mighty name of JESUS! May GOD and JESUS break every chain the enemy has formed against you and liberate you! May GOD and JESUS fill you with the HOLY SPIRIT, GODliness, love to get through any challenge or struggle or addiction! GOD IS GOOD! JESUS IS GOOD! GOD is love in times of hate, GOD is strength in times of weakness, GOD is light in times of darkness, GOD is harmony in times of chaos, and GOD is all you need and more! If you need more love/strength/anything GOD is there! GOD LOVES YOU JESUS LOVES YOU! GOD BLESS YOU AND PROTECT YOU IN THE MIGHTY NAME OF JESUS!
It breaks my heart to hear that these iconic women are still not getting the respect and acknowledgement they deserve.
This almost made me cry. I was never a fan back in the day but seeing them full of joy just got me moved. Have to salute their talents!😊
Definitely need an album with all of them!!! 2024!
produce it then
Omg!!! All of these ladies are sooooooo famous but we see so little of them! Why?! Songs are legends.
Even in Russia at dance parties when I was a kid with my parents.
They’re worldwide legends.
These women truly are legends, so much more talent than most modern day pop stars! I get goosebumps hearing them sing… Robin S singing is heaven! Love these ladies!
Oh my gosh! Can you imagine a project with all of them. These are house music legends! There music is being played, sung to and danced to at this moment. Their music will forever be
As a singer/ songwriter, I feel like these are my "big sisters" in music. Life at HU would NOT have been the same without these ladies!! Sybil is missing from this group!
I’d replace Sybil with Ultra Naté.
Sybil, Ultra Naté, Jocelyn Brown, La India, Barbara Tucker, Lonnie Gordon, Penny Ford, Adeva, Paris Grey...then you'd have the FULL set of dance/house divas from the 80's and 90's...
@SmartRobot-wc2fb
La India 👑 🇵🇷 🔥
Jocelyn Brown 👑 💃🏽 🔥
These women are truly the GOATS!!! This interview should have been much MUCH longer!! 😭😭
THANK YOU for this ICONIC SHOW!!!! These ladies' voices STILL give us all chills to hear their vocals on tracks that start our mornings! ROBYN S!!!! Her voice!!!
I CANNOT believe this incredible group of women is sitting together in this interview. These women are musical geniuses. For anyone too young for this era, you would NOT believe how groundbreaking these songs were in their prime. They're still brilliant, but man-- those were the days!!! :D
How have they not worked on a World Tour together ???…That would be an INSANE CONCERT !!
CeCe Peniston, Crystal Waters, Martha Wash, Robin S. and Thea Austin. Been listening to you ladies since the 90’s. 🤗
Martha Wash, for me a legend of dance music. She has an incredible power in her voice. She has a long career, performed in the 70th as a background singer with the legendary Sylvester, after that she was one member of the weather girls, then singer by C+C Music Factory and Black Box.
I don’t know how many cocktails & drinks I’ve spilled on myself (and others) dancin’ to these Titans of house music. 😂 The 90s was one big dance floor and everyone was on it. Ahh, the nostalgia!
😂
Please give us more of these Divas! A concert, tiny desk concert, anything please!
Tiny Desk plz!!!!!!!!! @NPRMusic
Omg! This is why it’s my favorite genre. The voices, the people who made others sound good. The titans. I pray they are overloaded with flowers. 💐
I wasn't I to house/club music, but these ladies deserve their flowers now for how they turned out parties back then. Their vocal range is mind blowing. Glad to see they are still around.
WONDERFUL! This interview just wasn’t long enough.
I really wish there was more to this interview. I'm sure there is but they always cut things short for the viewing audience, especially with TH-cam videos.
I absolutely adore Martha Wash.. and too see her there with Robin S, Crystal Waters, Thea Austin made my heart flutter. I love dance music and listen to it everyday including these Queens who put the glitter and sparkles in my life with their music.
I had the opportunity (and the pleasure) of meeting Robin S and spending most of the day with her when "Show Me Love" was just hitting, and she was booked to play a set at the nightclub where I had a residency (Pleasuredome, in Niagara Falls, NY). I've worked with numerous artists over the years, and I can tell you that I've never met a more gracious and kind woman in my life, and as for that voice, all I can say is WOW!!!! She has an extremely rare gift, and her voice sounded even better live than it does on the record, where it sounds spectacular! Oh, one more thing, kids. There was no autotune back in the day. Just #PureTalent!!!
Your comment about her voice sounding better live than in recording - SOOOOO true.
This is historic, to have all of these lady legends of house music in one interview.👏🙌
These hits are still being played today on tv, in clubs, weddings, movies. It's about time these ladies got their flowers.
TH-cam as well.
I still play all of these ladies Music during my work day! Love it!
Women with talent who didn't have to show it all absolutely stunning and talented 💕
It's just too bad the discrimination against the heavier women then didn't allow them to be shown in videos. But I am glad they thrived regardless.
QUEENS!! They're so fly! Repping DC, Chicago, and the OG's. Thank you for all you contributed not just to "House" or "Dance" but to BLACK AMERICAN MUSIC.
Been on tour with two of these sisters and they had big hearts and big talents and have influenced my daughters musically.❤❤❤
This was cool and Yes Martha is the original Diva! love it!
These phenomenal women sang the soundtrack to our lives..thanks for this story GMA
The Iconic Queens of House: Martha Wash, Cece Penstion, Crystal Waters, Robin S., Thea Austin, are Legends! I've been waiting since I was a teen playing their tracks on my mixed cassettes. Patiently waiting these Iconic Queens receiving their recognition!
"Finally, Everybody, Showing them love, cuz Rhythm is (history) La da dee la dee da!!!"
Still loving the Crystal Waters collab with StoneBridge's "Be Kind (S69 Classic Mix)" and Inaya Day's "Long Day (JX-C Mix) on the Fierce Angel's "The Collection" compilations.
Inaya Day, Shena and Diane Charlemange (R.I.P.) deserves a shout out too. With different house music compilations, those three do make alot of unexpected appearances.
They are the pillars of the mainstream music that we hear now in today's music. Just quality because then back in the days it was more about the music, and entertaining people together at parties instead of interacting on their phone. Glad to be born in the 80s and raised and danced in the 90s
These ladies need to be celebrated in every day music not just house !I have so many memories from 10 to being in the clubs that this music is apart of and when I hear these songs I’m transported in such a nostalgic way too the first time I heard these songs ,and what you felt the first time you heard each of these songs and the ladies singing it!
Please put these girls on the road on a tour!! I would pay hundreds to see them all in one spot!!❤
These women's voices were the power ballets of the 90's. This is amazing seeing them all sitting down together like this. Just to know some were not allowed to be on the video or live singing their own songs- we should never allow this to happen again.
People want to see the real singer sing their own hit, period.
I want a world tour and I want to go see all of these legends together on stage.
Yasss! That would be awesome 🫶🏿🙌🏿🙌🏿🙌🏿🙌🏿🙌🏿
I’m only 27 but I know these lovely ladies voices because of the 99 cent store in my neighborhood in Harlem would play their jams! When I hear them, I get transported back to that 99 cent store. ❤❤❤❤
all these women have legendary voices; but I must admit, Martha Wash is the only one whose name I know by memory. So thank you for giving all of them all exposure.
This made me smile. I still play all of their music constantly. Respect to them all 🙏🏾
I would LOVE to hear new music from these ladies. It would go to the top of the charts in EDM music.
yeah... if they can get DJ David Guetta to stop putting out records that sample other peoples' hits! Dance music lost its soul in around 2016, it's very generic and soulless nowadays. The last shining light of dance music was Aviccii and he checked out.
I’m glad I lived in the 90s with memories of when these songs came out. There’s nothing like the reaction of the crowd when these jams came on and made everybody dance together.
Their music got me through so much!! I still listen to it today! Thank you for this interview!
This was so touching I love it! Still bumping their songs till this day!
Growing up in a little town in distant New Zealand these women and their songs were heard valued and adored ❤
These ladies are iconic
They make me so happy..so many memories. I have so many memories and I can remember these songs being part of them.
I wish this was longer! I want a 90's Dance music documentary and tour!
I danced to their music like there was no tomorrow! Still do sometimes to work out😅❤🎉
I just need all of them on tour now. Legendary Lady's ❤
Love!! Thanks so much for honoring these women!
Let’s not forget Rochelle Fleming and Loleatta Holloway. They were some of the most sampled singers in dance music history.
They are still Factors in today's music!!! Respect to the Queens of House music. 🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾
Awesome interview. Great to see them get some more recognition. Loved all those songs!
That just made me cry. The voices of my youth. Thanks Queens ❤
Great idea 💡 to bring these artists together! House is UNSUNG. Now this is JOURNALISM!! Thanks GMA! 🎉🎉❤❤❤❤
Those songs are timeless. They will forever be hits.
I've been telling people for years about how all these women are the titans and pioneers of house music. Give them their due.
I love these ladies so much. I exercise to 80s-90s house music all the time and it always feels fresh
I grew up in Japan from 89-95 (through high school) and danced my ass off to their music in the clubs as well as by myself with my Walkman/Discman/ MDplayer.
Words can not express the impact of these ladies in Music History. Thank You
Disco had a baby and named her House Music. Born in 1977 from “The Queen of Disco”, Donna Summer, I Feel Love…put her down for nap (8os) and woke her up around 1990…these ladies nurtured her sound…and WOW !!😀🪩❤️
I was a little girl and I used to listen to the radio on Friday and Saturday nights when they would do “Club Mixes” on the radio. And I would just sing my little heart out to Show Me Love, Finally (😍!!!!). I fell in love with House then and I still love it today. Undiluted pure House music PERIOD.
💐💐💐💐💐💐💐💐💐💐💐
This segment is a direct response to the success Beyoncé’s Renaissance album… I wonder why it took mainstream media 30+ years for this recognition.
That was so cool! I grew up with this music on the radio. so glad they are finally getting their due.
This is so sad yet so beautiful to hear from them all in one room. Beautiful. This is the music that made my childhoood. Still rock it today!!!
This was well over due! These women made house what it is today. I hope that someone, somewhere does an hour long interview with them.
This was so good to see these talented and timeless ladies together. I'm an 80s baby/90s kid. So, all of them are currently in my 90s Spotify Playlist 🥰
Just saw this on TV today so happy these beautiful ladies got their shine... LEGENDARY!!! 🎉❤🎶🔥