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In the early 1990s, as the Dance/Pop of Laura Branigan, Sheena Easton and Taylor Dayne was cooling in popularity, house music went mainstream. Madonna "Deeper and Deeper" and Crystal Waters "100% Pure Love", to name just two songs, were major hits.

Dance music also got "faster". Tracks like "Gonna Make You Sweat (Everybody Dance Now)" and "Rhythm is a Dancer" hit a nerve with the public early in the decade.

"Gonna Make You Sweat" was the first hit for C+C Music Factory. It was performed by Freedom Williams with the powerhouse vocal on the tag "Everybody Dance Now" done by Martha Wash. Wash's vocals were lip synced in the video by Zelma Davis, prompting Martha to sue for proper credit.

"Rhythm is a Dancer" was the second hit for German group "Snap", after "The Power". The dance track was a huge hit all over the U.K., Europe and North America. American Dance/House artist Thea Austin cowrote the track and sang lead.

By the mid Nineties, Dance/Pop was in deep decline on the mainstream charts. Commercial remixes, however, were on the rise and many dance artists continued to score big hits on the Billboard Dance Club/Play chart.

One artist who benefited from this trend was Annie Lennox. Her single "Little Bird" was given the house remix treatment and went all the way to #1.

Lennox labelmate Deborah Cox arguably owes her career to remix artists. "Who Do U Love" became her breakout single after being mixed by House DJ David Morales. Within three years Cox became the hottest diva to hit clubland since Donna Summer in the late Seventies. She remains to this day one of the genre's top artists.

Despite these mid decade success stories, however, dance music was still marginalized until 1998 when Cher hit with "Believe". The success of that single brought dance music back into the spotlight and for the next few years dance divas were "hot" once again.



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