She is a singer and actress born in New York
whose father was the jazz drummer Bill Clark. She began her musical
career in Listen My Brother, formed in the Apollo Theater, New York,
where the other vocalists were Luther
Vandross and Fonzi Thornton, and the founder of the group, Carlos
Alomar
, who she would later marry.She has since worked in many areas of the entertainment
industry such as being a pit singer on the Broadway production of The Wiz,
working as a backing vocalist and session singer for literally hundreds of
artists, touring with David Bowie and Simple Minds among others, singing on
several movie soundtracks, appearing in the movie Keeping the Faith and on several
television programmes including Bronk!,Emergency!,The
Conan O'Brien Show and Sesame
Street.She has also appeared
on two Billboard chart No. 1 singles; "Dance, Dance, Dance" with Chic and "Don't
You (Forget About Me)" with Simple Minds. Other artists she has
appeared with include Beyonce, Blur, Michael Bolton, Mariah Carey,
Sheryl
Crow, Bob
Dylan
, Deborah Gibson,
Michael Jackson, Moby, The Scissor Sisters, Bonny Tyler, The Weather Girls and
many more. The numerous albums she has appeared on include her own Surrender, 11 albums with Luther
Vandross
such as This is Christmas, Love Luther
and Songs, Live in the City of Light by Simple Minds, Young
Americans, Changes and Never Let Me Down by David Bowie, Long
Hard Look by Lou Gramm, In Your Eyes by George Benson, Ringo
the 4th by Ringo
Starr , Your Filthy Little Mouth by David Lee
Roth, Fires of Eden by Judy Collins, Back to Back by The
Brecker Brothers Band, Live!
The Loom's Desire by Laura
Nyro , You've Got to Believe in Something
by The Spin Doctors, Dance, Dance, Dance: The Best of Chic by Chic, Romancing
the '60s by Frankie Valli and the soundtracks of Feeling Minnesota,
Anastasia, Aladdin and Tarzan. Her daughter with Carlos
Alomar is the successful singer-songwriter
Lea-Lorien.
