The Human League
- Ian Burden
- Joanne Catherall
- Philip Oakey
- Jim Russell
- Susan Ann Sulley
- Philip Adrian Wright
Additional musicians
- Paul Rabiger - Keyboard parts, arrangement
Philanthropist Jacqueline Avant Honored with Opening of Children and Family Center in Her Name
Activist and former U.S. Ambassador to the Bahamas Nicole Avant on Friday helped open the Jacqueline Avant Children and Family Center at the MLK Medical Campus in the Watts-Willowbrook community of Los Angeles, CA in memory of her mother.
“My family and I are thrilled and honored to celebrate the unveiling of the Jacqueline Avant Children and Family Center,” Nicole Avant said. “For over 50 years,…
"I was a little reluctant to work with [Mariah], because I enjoyed her, but I wasn't a fan....I didn't feel like, I want her to sing my songs...So when we actually met--she came with the....big entourage and the whole deal, private jet....I was like, here we go. And then we actually got in the studio with her....She was the most focused, savvy--particularly savvy. She knew her way around the hook like nothing else. Like....you would go to a chord and she'd go, 'No, that's not going to work for Top 40.' Or you'd put a beat in and she'd go, 'No, the hip-hop crowd won't like that.' .... She was so aware of who her audience was....what they wanted, what they expected, and what she wanted it to be. I turned into the biggest Mariah fan, me and Terry [Lewis] both, and I still am to this day."
-- Jimmy Jam to Danyel Smith, 2016 (From SHINE BRIGHT)
Ann Bennett-Nesby - Lead vocal
Carrie Harrington - Lead vocal
Coré Cotton - Lead vocal
Jamecia Bennett - Lead vocal
Patricia Lacy - Lead vocal
Bob Thomas - Backing vocal
The Sounds Of Blackness - Backing vocal
Terrence Frierson - Backing vocal
Wendy Ingram - Backing vocal
Mint Condition - Handclaps
The flow - Music