She is a session musician whose name first became
known in the mid-1970s after she appeared with George Benson and David
Sanborn and was also present on the recording the 1976 Montreux Jazz's
Festival's Jazz Sampler.A year later she recorded with Roy Buchanan and Luther Vandross and
then got her break when she sang with Chic on their No. 1 hit song "Dance,
Dance, Dance".Suddenly she
was getting calls from everywhere to work and record and would soon be
heard on many successful hit singles and albums as well as on the
soundtrack of Broadway's The Wiz.The many artists and groups she appeared with throughout
the course of her career include Ray Barretto, George Benson, Eric Carmen, Change,
Gregg Diamond, Herbie Mann, The Marshall Tucker Band, Bette Midler, Gene
Simmons, Sister Sledge, Belouis Some, David Spinozza, Spyro Gyra, Steely
Dan, Luther Vandross and many more.Albums she has appeared on during the course of her career include
her own Hotel Paradise credited as Diva Gray and Oyster, Spinozza
by David Spinozza, Give Me the Night and In Your Eyes by
George Benson, Morning Dance by Spyro Gyra, Take No Prisoners
by Peabo Bryson, I'm the One by Roberta Flack, Provision by
Scritti Politti, Never Let Me Down by David Bowie, Snowfall on
the Sahara by Natalie Cole, Judy Sings Dylan by Judy Collins, Some
People by Belouis Some, These Are Special Times by Celine Dion, Television
by Dr. John, C'Est Chic and Risque by Chic, Tenth by
The Marshall Tucker Band, We Are Family by Sister Sledge, Gaucho
by Steely Dan, Little Creatures by Talking Heads, R by R.
Kelly, You've Got to Believe in Something by The Spin Doctors, I
Know by Luther Vandross, Voyeur by David Sanborn and the
soundtracks of Divine Madness, Sunnyside and Aida.She became one of Bette Midler's
The Staggering Harlettes and then trying her hand at television she become
of the voices in the animated series Jem and the Holograms in 1985
and then venturing onto the silver screen she appeared in the movies Everybody
Says I Love You and A Walk to Remember.
