Dawn Robinson
(born November 28, 1968) is an American R&B/soul/Dance-pop singer mostly best known for her work as a member of hit Urban/Dance-pop group, En Vogue.
Following her departure from En Vogue in 1997, Robinson joined Lucy Pearl for a brief period of time from 1999 to 2001. Besides occasional modeling and background vocal work for Dr. Dre's Aftermath Records, Robinson also released a solo album entitled Dawn
, released by Atlantic Records on 29 January 2002. The single "Envious" only received light to moderate airplay on radio and video outlets. In early 2003 Robinson married former lead singer of 90's R & B group IV Xample Dre Allen. Dawn & Dre then toured throughout 2004 - 2007 with Allens new band on Tommy Boy Records called The Dre Allen Project. In 2005, Robinson returned sporadically to En Vogue who toured nationally while attempting to negotiate a new recording contract with The Firm Management for the original En Vogue. All four members failed to reach an agreement and Robinson decided not to return to En Vogue.
In 2008, Robinson returned to En Vogue to tour with the Grammy nominated group for an overseas appearance. This gives hopes to fans worldwide that an En Vogue 20 year reunion is imminent.Fans went wild when Robinson was given part of Maxine Jones's verse in "Riddle".A song the group recorded while Robinson's departure.In 2001 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4mxEVT5vMFY
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DAWN ROBINSON TICKETS
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Lead Songs/Shared Leads
- 1990- "Lies"
- 1992- "My Lovin' (You're Never Gonna Get It)"
- 1992- "Giving Him Something He Can Feel"
- 1992- "Free Your Mind"
- 1993- "Whatta Man"
- 1993- "Runaway Love"
- 1996- "Don't Let Go (Love)"
Discography
With En Vogue
Albums
| Year
| Album
| US
| US R&B
| UK
| US Sales
| World Sales
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| 1990
| Born to Sing
| 21
| 3
| 23
| 1.0m
| -
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| 1991
| Remix to Sing
| -
| -
| 57
| 150k
| -
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| 1992
| Funky Divas
| 8
| 1
| 4
| 3.2m
| 6.5m
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| 1993
| Runaway Love EP
| 49
| 16
| -
| 250k
| -
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| 1997
| EV3
| 8
| 8
| 9
| 1.0m
| -
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| 1998
| Best of En Vogue
| -
| -
| 39
| 200k
| 500k
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| 2001
| Very Best of En Vogue
| -
| -
| -
| -
| -
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| 2005
| Hold On And Other Hits
| -
| -
| -
| -
| -
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| 2009
| DMTC
| -
| -
| -
| -
| -
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With Lucy Pearl
Only one album was released, the self-titled
Lucy Pearl
. Two singles, "Dance Tonight" and "Don't Mess with My Man" went top 40 and sold over 500,000 copies certifying the album Gold. Soon afterwards, Robinson was replaced by Joi.
Soundtrack works
She has featured several songs in some successful
soundtracks:
- Love & Basketball
(2000) (writer: "Dance Tonight")
- Life (1999/I) (performer: "Drop Me Off in Harlem")
- The Rugrats Movie
(1998) (performer: "This World is Something New to Me")
- Doctor Dolittle
(1998) (performer: "Rock Steady")
- Bulworth
(1998) (performer: "Firm Biz")
Solo album
Dawn
was
produced by Milton Davis,
Travon Potts, AllStar, Chris Warrior,
PAJAM and others.
# "Set It Off" (Simmons, Aleese/Gordon, Allen/Butler, Nate)
# "Still" (Warrior, Christopher/Robinson, Dawn)
# "Party, Party" (Barias, Ivan/Haggins, Carvin/Robinson, Dawn)
# "Get Up Again" (Barias, Ivan/Haggins, Carvin/Ramanto, Frankie/Robinson, Dawn)
# "Envious" (Young, Amber Jade/Davis, Milton/Robinson, Dawn/Paul, Kowan "Q")
# "Meaning of a Woman" (Cook, Sean "Cookie"/Robinson, Dawn/Ski, Kenni)
# "I Don't Know Why" (Potts, Travon)
# "Fed Up" (Allen, Paul D./Moss, J.)
# "Our Child" (Cook, Sean "Cookie"/Robinson, Dawn/Ski, Kenni)
# "How Long" (Cook, Sean "Cookie"/Robinson, Dawn/Ski, Kenni)
# "Read in My Eyes" (Potts, Travon/Rudolph, Richard)
# "You Will Never" (Potts, Travon)
The album peaked at #22 in the
Billboard Heatseekers.
Singles
Peaked at #99 on
Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles & Tracks
"Set it Off" was
sampled from
Dexter Wansel's song, "New Beginning."
A duet with her husband Dre Allen which was recorded for the Dre Allen Project album L.Y.F.E. & was released on Dawn's indie label Movemakers Entertainment, received big underground response & independently sold over 50,000 copies in a grassroots touring campaign throughout 2006-2007. The music video went into the top 10 in MTV Base in the UK & sold over 18,000 copies in Britain.
April 2008 - Dawn Returns Again
As of April 2008 Dawn Robinson has returned to En Vogue. Robinson will perform with the group on several tour dates, including the 4th Annual Plymouth Jazz Festival in Tobago, The Caribbean alongside such mega-stars as Whitney Houston and Rod Stewart. The tentative return of Dawn Robinson gives hope to En Vogue fans worldwide that a reunion is imminent
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