Dawn Penn biography
Dawn Penn (born 1952, Kingston, Jamaica) is a Jamaican reggae singer.
Career
Dawn Penn's earliest recordings were composed and written by Dawn Penn around 1966 using session musicians. In 1967 she recorded the rocksteady single, "You Don't Love Me" produced by Coxsone Dodd at Studio One. She also recorded "Why Did You Leave" at Studio One, "Broke My Heart" for Bunny Lee, "I Let You Go Boy" and covers of "To Sir with Love" and "Here Comes the Sun".By 1970 Penn had left the music industry and had moved to the Virgin Islands. In 1987, however, she returned to Jamaica and to music.
In the summer of 1992 she was invited to appear on stage at a Studio One anniversary show, where she performed the song "You Don't Love Me" with Steely & Clevie as backing musicians. The performance was a success, and she returned to the recording studio to re-record the song for the tribute album Steely & Clevie Play Studio One Vintage. It was released as the single "You Don't Love Me (No, No, No)" over a year later, reaching the charts in the U.S. and Europe, plus hitting #1 in her native Jamaica., and making #3 in the UK Singles Chart. In 1994, Big Beat/Atlantic released No, No, No, Penn's first full-length album since her comeback.
Subsequently, "You Don't Love Me (No, No, No)" has been sampled and covered by the artists Kano, Hexstatic, Jae Millz, Ghostface Killah, Mims, Eve featuring Stephen Marley and Rihanna. Their versions were all renamed as "No, No, No", bar Ghostface's which was named "New Splash". The song was performed by Blue King Brown on the Australian youth radio network Triple J programme 'Like a Version' 2006.
Penn performed at The Drum in Birmingham, England in April 2006 supported by the Gabbidon band (which at the time included Faisal X) and, in the same year, Penn was on the bill at the Uppsala Reggae Festival in Sweden.
In 2011, Penn released a music video for the song "City Life," directed by Antoine Dixon-Bellot.
Discography
Albums
- No, No, No (1994)
- Come Again (1996)
- Never Hustle the Music (2004)
Singles
- "You Don't Love Me" (1967)
- "You Don't Love Me (No, No, No)" (1994)
- "Night & Day (Baby I Love You So)" (1994)
- "Growing Up" / "Be Gone"
- "Never Hustle the Music" (2004)
See also
- List of Jamaicans
- List of reggae musicians
- List of stage names
- List of performances on Top of the Pops
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