Introduction
Adeva (born Patricia Daniels) is an American singer. She had a string of successful house and R&B hits in the late 1980s to early 1990s, including "Warning" (UK #17), "I Thank You" (UK #17) and "Respect" (UK #17).
Early life
Born in 1960 in Paterson, New Jersey, Daniels was the youngest of six children. She developed her voice as a member, and later director and vocal coach, of her church choir. She began singing professionally in the mid-1980s, releasing the single "In and Out of My Life" in 1988 on Easy Street Records.
Debut album
Immediately after this, she signed with the UK label Cooltempo (a subsidiary of EMI) later in 1988 and released a house reworking of the Aretha Franklin hit "Respect" that reached #17 in the UK. Her debut album Adeva! was released in August 1989, and peaked at #6 on the UK Albums Chart, #28 in Germany, and #14 in Australia. The album was certified platinum by the British Phonographic Industry for UK sales exceeding 300,000 copies. In addition to "Respect", the album contained several other hit singles including "Warning!" and "I Thank You", both of which also reached #17 in the UK, and "Musical Freedom" which reached #22. The album was released in the United States in 1990 via EMI's Capitol Records, where "Warning!" had become a Top 10 Dance Chart hit.
Later career
Her second album, 1991's Love or Lust? failed to chart in either the UK or the US, despite featuring two hit singles on the US Dance chart, "Independent Woman" (US Dance #7) and "It Should Have Been Me" (US Dance #1), and she was dropped by Cooltempo in 1992.
Adeva collaborated with house-music pioneer Frankie Knuckles in 1995, with whom she released two UK Top 40 singles and an album, Welcome to the Real World.
In 1997, Adeva released another album, New Direction, on Distinct'ive Records, but this was unsuccessful. It was her last album to date, though she was featured on various singles in 2003–04 with other artists, including Radical Noiz and Eric Prydz who both sampled Adeva's 1988 single "In and Out of My Life" (the track had also been sampled by OnePhatDeeva in 1999). She was also featured on the 2004 single "Wish I Never Knew" by the Scandinavian dance act, Slippery People.
Discography
Albums
- 1989: Adeva! — Cooltempo/Chrysalis/EMI (UK) | Capitol/EMI (US)—UK #6, AUS #14, GER #28 (re-released by Parlophone/WEA in 2013)
- 1991: Love or Lust — Cooltempo/Chrysalis/EMI (UK) | Capitol/EMI (US)—AUS #114 (re-released by Parlophone/WEA in 2013)
- 1997: New Direction — Distinctive
Compilations
- 1992 Hits! – AUS #251
- 1996 Ultimate Adeva
Singles
| Year | Single | Peak positions | Album | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1988 | "In and Out of My Life" | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Adeva! | |
| "Respect" | 17 | 150 | 34 | — | — | 17 | 21 | — | — | 21 | 84 | |||
| 1989 | "Musical Freedom (Free at Last)" | 22 | 151 | — | — | — | 26 | 43 | — | — | — | — | ||
| "Warning!" | 17 | 38 | — | — | — | — | 46 | 18 | — | 4 | — | |||
| "I Thank You" | 17 | 30 | — | 50 | 38 | 19 | 40 | 46 | — | — | — | |||
| "Beautiful Love" | 57 | 109 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||
| 1990 | "Treat Me Right" | 62 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| 1991 | "Ring My Bell" | 20 | 35 | 44 | — | 25 | — | 15 | 13 | 8 | — | — | Love or Lust? | |
| "It Should've Been Me" | 48 | 83 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 1 | — | |||
| 1992 | "Don't Let It Show on Your Face" | 34 | 187 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| "Independent Woman" | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 7 | — | |||
| "Until You Come Back to Me" | 45 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||
| "I'm the One for You" | 51 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||
| 1993 | "Respect '93" | 65 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | single only | |
| 1996 | "I Thank You '96" | 37 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Ultimate Adeva | |
| 1997 | "Where Is the Love? / The Way That You Feel" | 54 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | New Direction | |
| "Don't Think About It" | 78 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||
| 1998 | "Been Around" | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| "—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released. | ||||||||||||||
Collaborations
| Year | Single | Peak positions | Album | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1995 | "Too Many Fish" | 34 | 1 | 110 | Welcome To The Real World | |||||||||
| "Whadda U Want (From Me)" | 36 | 3 | — | |||||||||||
| "Walkin'" | — | 5 | — | |||||||||||
| 1996 | "Do Watcha Do" | 54 | — | — | National Anthems | |||||||||
| 1997 | "Do Watcha Do (Remix)" | 60 | — | — | singles only | |||||||||
| 2003 | "In & Out" | 96 | — | — | ||||||||||
| 2004 | "Wish I Never Knew" | — | — | — | ||||||||||
| "—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released. | ||||||||||||||
Videos
- 1991 Live at the Town and Country Club, Chrysalis/EMI Video (UK)
- 1992 The Video Hits!