Spotlight #2 - Suzanne Palmer

Equally at home singing r&b, gospel, house, pop and jazz, Palmer boasts impeccable credentials. The daughter of a jazz pianist, she grew up on Chicago's south side. By age sixteen she was performing professionally. She has appeared on albums with Angela Bofill, Jeff Lorber and Terry Callier. Earth, Wind and Fire's Maurice White signed her to a solo recording project. Palmer toured Europe with the Victory Singers, a renowned Chicago gospel choir, and tore down the house on New York's nationally televised "Show Time at the Apollo." In Poland, at the prestigious Sopot International Pop Festival, she competed against singers from sixteen countries to win the Best Solo Vocalist award. She appeared on "The Oprah Winfrey Show," singing with Gloria Estefan on her 1996 Olympic Games anthem, "Reach." The February 1998 issue of Jazziz magazine declared Palmer a winner in its talent search for "Voices of the New Jazz Culture."

n the summer of 1997, after signing to the Twisted America/MCA label, she began her fruitful artistic partnership with producer/DJ Peter Rauhofer, as a featured vocalist on the Club 69 album, "Style." The album yielded three hit singles for Suzanne, "Much Better," "Alright," and "Muscles," and firmly established her as a major star in the club music scene.

In 2001 Suzanne reunited with producer/DJ Peter Rauhofer to record "Hide U" for Peter's own Star 69 label. It began topping the DJ playlists as soon as promo copies went out, and rapidly broke into the Billboard Club Play chart's top 5. 2002 saw the release of her Rauhofer-produced house hit, "Show Me," as well as her collaboration with master trance DJ Tiesto, the European breakout smash, "643/Love's On Fire."

Since than Ms. Palmer has released her debut solo album entitled 'Home' in 2005 and that album has spawned 8 hit singles that are still going strong well into 2008.

Here is a list of her Discography:

1998 -
- Single #1 - Much Better [With Club 69]
- Single #2 - Alright [With Club 69]

1999 -
- Single #3 - Muscles [With Club 69]

2001 -
- Single #4 - Hide U

2002 -
- Single #5 - Show Me
- Single #6 - 643/Loves On Fire [With Tiesto]

2005 -
- Album - Home
- Single #7 - Home
- Single #8 - Luv 2 Luv
- Single #9 - Sound Of The Drum

2006 -
- Single #10 - Fascinated
- Single #11 - Keep The Faith

2007 -
- Single #12 - Free My Love
- Single #13 - Eye Can See U

2008 -
- Single #14 - Fame [With Bill Bennett]

The album 'Home' is one of the greatest Dance albums I have ever had the pleasure of holding in my hands and banging through my stereo!