Regina Belle : Rolling Stone

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All By Myself

It seems every record executive these days is looking for a sultry-voiced siren he or she can turn into the next crossover queen. The latest entry is Regina Belle, a twenty-four-year-old New Jersey native who, surprise, grew up idolizing Shirley Caesar, Billie Holiday and the Temptations –...

1987 RS: Not Rated

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A contemporary soul singer with roots in gospel and jazz, Regina Belle had several R&B hits in the late '80s before her 1992 #1 pop duet with Peabo Bryson, "A Whole New World (Aladdin's Theme)" - the theme song from the Walt Disney animated film Aladdin that won three Grammys as well as an Oscar. Born to a gospel-loving mother and a father who was an R&B enthusiast, Belle began singing in church...

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