She sang lead on the Atlantic Starr song "Circles",
and released a solo album in the early 90s... Has anyone heard it?

I love "Circles"! I never heard her solo album though.

Love me some Atlantic Starr and some Sharon Bryant and i do believe she was the best lead singer for the group IMO, not to slight the other ladies, She was my fav, also i loved her SOLO debut the top ten R&B smash "Let Go" Love the video TOO! Also she does a remake of the Steve Perry "Foolish Heart" I love it as well. GO SHARON B!!!!!

I loved her remake of "Foolish Heart".

regcart said:

They lost everything - IMO - the minute she left the group. She was the pulse of that group and whoever came after her couldn't get in her shoes - or buy new ones for that matter.

I'm just baffled that she said "Hell no" when Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis came up to her with the "Control" and then got passed to lil' Janet @ the time. I bet she broke them heels from kickin' her own ass after that.

Harlepolis said:

I have pondered this issue as well. The only logical conclusion I could come up with is that she didn't want to be a "dance" artist. I think she wanted to go more in the Adult Contemporary field and not be the Dance/Sex Symbol. Who knows?

daPrettyman said:

Sharon is more productive as a "session artist", to hear her tell it.

I remember hearing a radio interview of her with Egypt and said that she enjoys producing vocals, doing vocal arrangements and singing back-up for other artists more than the "lead" thing.

And in her defence, she says she finds MORE work as a session artist anyway as opposed find work solo, coz no agencies will book her.

Make sense I guess but not enough sense to throw such a talent in the back seat.

At least, I'm glad that she's content.
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It seems like many of the best singers are back-up vocalists...

Jevetta Steele
Audrey Wheeler
Cindy Mizelle
Siedah Garrett

and MY favorite...

SunnySkies said:

Don't 4get Tawatha "Mighty T" Agee



She and Angela Winbush were in a female trio group called Hot TEA back in the 70's when they were students in Howard University.

Harlepolis said:

Did they release any albums?

Harlepolis said:

Tawatha and Lisa added so much to Luther Vandross' work.

I loved sharon bryant as lead of atlantic starr and her solo
album which was good but not spectacular. I liked the title track
here i am, don't let go, falling, body talk, and the foolish heart
remake of course. I hate that she decided to step out of the limelight.
She could have been a household name in the mid to early nineties.