Dawn Robinson

Dawn Robinson
Born	November 28, 1968 (1968-11-28) New London, Connecticut

Dawn Robinson (November 28, 1968, New London, Connecticut) is an American R&B/soul/Dance-pop singer best known for her work as a member of hit Urban/Dance-pop group, En Vogue.

Robinson was born in New London, Connecticut. Following her departure from En Vogue in 1997, Robinson joined Lucy Pearl to record the only Lucy Pearl album released to date. After touring with Lucy Pearl, Dawn claimed she found out she was out of the group upon seeing the groups final video. The song featured Robinson's vocals but with new member Joi lip syncing Robinson's part. Robinson was then signed with Dr. Dre's Aftermath Records, and gave guest vocals on The Firm's hit song "Firm Biz" which sampled Teena Marie's classic single "Square Biz." After appearing on a few soundtracks, Robinson released a solo album entitled Dawn, released by Atlantic Records on 29 January 2002. The single "Envious" received moderate airplay on radio and video outlets. According to Sister2Sister magazine, Robinson said the album "tanked" due to "poor promotion." 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. 2009 Robinson recorded and released two new songs made available on her official Myspace page, "Johnny Walker Get Up Again" and "I Like Boyz." 2010, all four members appeared on the cover of Jet magazine to promote their reunion tour, yet again failed to reach an agreement, and Robinson decided not to record on the new En Vogue album due in the fall of 2011, but has reached an agreement to continue touring with the group in 2012.

On September 26, 2011, Ellis, Jones & Herron released their first single "I'll Cry Later" from their upcoming album.

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
1990	Born to Sing	21	3	23	1.0m	-
1991	Remix to Sing	-	-	57	150k	-
1992	Funky Divas	8	1	4	3.2m	6.5m
1993	Runaway Love EP	49	16	-	250k	-
1997	EV3	8	8	9	1.0m	-
1998	Best of En Vogue	-	-	39	200k	500k
2001	Very Best of En Vogue	-	-	-	-	-

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. The last single released "YOU" and also featured on the soundtrack "Save The Last Dance" did feature Dawn Robinson's vocals but the video featured new Lucy Pearl member Joi, as Robinson was no longer in the group.

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 career

Year	Album details	Peak chart positions
		US	UK
2002	Dawn Released: 29 January 2002 Label: Atlantic Records Formats: CD	-	-

Title	Year	Peak chart positions
		US	UK	US R&B
"Envious"	2002	—	—	99
"Better Without You"	2010	—	—	—

References

• John Farinella, David. Dawn Robinson Interview: "Rebel With A Cause", Yahoo! Music. February 4, 2002.

External links

• Dawn Robinson's Official Website
• Dawn Robinson at the Internet Movie Database
• http://web.archive.org/web/20091027030837/http://geocities.com/funkydawnrobinson/