In recent years, people have raved over Jennifer Holliday, Jennifer Hudson, Martha Wash, Fantasia Barrino, and more recently Lakisha and Malinda on American Idol. Well they all pale into insignificance next to the sheer awe of the mighty Vermettya Royster. Vermettya has always been and remains the lead vocalist of Sisters Love. While still recording with the group, when we did the whole Motorcity project, this remake of one of the Sisters Love classics was her first ever solo recording. Sisters Love started out with A&M Records in the mid-sixties with a string of soul hits, hitting big with "Forget It I've Got It". They then joined Motown's new West Coast label in the late sixties, Mowest, turning out classic after classic such as "Mr. Fixit Man", "I'm Learning To Trust My Man", and their original recording of this single, "Give Me Your Love". The group were disbanded for many years, but thanks to the hard work and efforts of Vermettya Royster and Rudy Calvo, they reformed and came back together again and recorded for Motorcity Records. They completed many other tracks, including "No More Broken Hearts", "Saturday Night, Sunday Morning", "Motorcity Magic", "Something About You" and "Nowhere To Run". Vermettya was so excited with her new and outrageous arrangement of "Give Me Your Love" that she went out and performed it a few times during the short time she lived in England in 1991. She redefines the word "Diva" with a Capital "D". Larger than life and utterly utterly outrageous.
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