Nonsense, Prince did not make her, she was a huge star in Britain before Prince was even on the charts. Morning train from 1980, was her first huge hit, and she was discovered on a British TV talent programme. She is about 42, I think she was barely 20 when she hit with Morning Train. But by 1984 after the huge hit "For Your eyes only", Prince gave her the smutty little hit Sugar Walls and everyone thinks that was her start.

I am not sure about her origin, but I suspect she has some Asian blood in her as well (Malaysian or Chinese) but I may be wrong and confuisng her with early 90s singer Betty Boo (Doing the Do, Boomania), the one who was caught lipsinking in 1990 on stage.

Scotland seems to be good at throwing up these very beautiful partly exotic singers, the lead singer of Texas, last name is Spiteri is Maltese, so she is probably mixed Scottish/Maltese.

Adorecream said:

Nonsense, Prince did not make her, she was a huge star in Britain before Prince was even on the charts. Morning train from 1980, was her first huge hit, and she was discovered on a British TV talent programme. She is about 42, I think she was barely 20 when she hit with Morning Train. But by 1984 after the huge hit "For Your eyes only", Prince gave her the smutty little hit Sugar Walls and everyone thinks that was her start.

I am not sure about her origin, but I suspect she has some Asian blood in her as well (Malaysian or Chinese) but I may be wrong and confuisng her with early 90s singer Betty Boo (Doing the Do, Boomania), the one who was caught lipsinking in 1990 on stage.

Scotland seems to be good at throwing up these very beautiful partly exotic singers, the lead singer of Texas, last name is Spiteri is Maltese, so she is probably mixed Scottish/Maltese.

Truth

nursev said:

Not trying to call anybody young here but older folks know she was a success before Prince. Yes Prince wrote hits for her and such, but she had the goods and didn't need him to "make" her a star.

Yeah I remember it quite well. I guess i'm old Morning Train really put her on the map in a big way. It was by far her biggest hit. Her more sexual image came largely because of "Strut", which Prince had nothing to do with. Prince was primarily responsible for launching Sheila E's career. Sheena Easton was a star in her own right and she only dabbled with Prince on a few projects (including the flop "Eternity" which was a fiasco... although a good record).

But she was quite a star way before her work with Prince.

KCOOLMUZIQ said:

Prince made Sheena in2 a sex symbol just like he did Sheila E...It was the same scenario. Yes they both had good careers before him. But Prince took both of them to the next level. Because of that their careers flourished in2 the stratosphere.

Shiela is not the same situation. She was a session musician, she didn't have any pop success or hit records like Sheena.

Lover in me is the only song I remmber tho I had her tape. That sang was badass back then.

NoVideo said:

nursev said:

Not trying to call anybody young here but older folks know she was a success before Prince. Yes Prince wrote hits for her and such, but she had the goods and didn't need him to "make" her a star.

Yeah I remember it quite well. I guess i'm old Morning Train really put her on the map in a big way. It was by far her biggest hit. Her more sexual image came largely because of "Strut", which Prince had nothing to do with. Prince was primarily responsible for launching Sheila E's career. Sheena Easton was a star in her own right and she only dabbled with Prince on a few projects (including the flop "Eternity" which was a fiasco... although a good record).

But she was quite a star way before her work with Prince.

Agreed-folks need to stop trying to pretend like Prince "made" everybody into a star. Love the guy, but in this case Ms. Easton was a star before Prince even took off.

nursev said:

NoVideo said:

Yeah I remember it quite well. I guess i'm old Morning Train really put her on the map in a big way. It was by far her biggest hit. Her more sexual image came largely because of "Strut", which Prince had nothing to do with. Prince was primarily responsible for launching Sheila E's career. Sheena Easton was a star in her own right and she only dabbled with Prince on a few projects (including the flop "Eternity" which was a fiasco... although a good record).

But she was quite a star way before her work with Prince.

Agreed-folks need to stop trying to pretend like Prince "made" everybody into a star. Love the guy, but in this case Ms. Easton was a star before Prince even took off.

Yep yep. I had all her stuff on vinyl back in the day. Still do in fact

NoVideo said:

nursev said:

Agreed-folks need to stop trying to pretend like Prince "made" everybody into a star. Love the guy, but in this case Ms. Easton was a star before Prince even took off.

Yep yep. I had all her stuff on vinyl back in the day. Still do in fact

Me too-guess that makes me old too Had to take the youngsters to school-DING! DING!

Speaking of her hits, anybody else think "Telephone" - one of Sheena's biggest hits - owes a huge debt to Laura Branigan's "Gloria" (which was itself a cover of an Italian single)?

Especially the chorus, and the keyboard riff.

I wanna sing "calling Gloria!!!!" in 'Telephone' after the chorus and the "oh-oh!" LOL

^ Use to love Laura Branigan too-may she r.i.p.

nursev said:

^ Use to love Laura Branigan too-may she r.i.p.

Agreed, another underrated 80s vocalist. She was awesome. "The Lucky One"... ahhhh I wore that 45 out lol.

^ All Prince did was give her the song and he put his own "prince touch" on her i.e. dressing like a skank that's it. The voice and the charm were already hers.

NoVideo said:

nursev said:

^ Use to love Laura Branigan too-may she r.i.p.

Agreed, another underrated 80s vocalist. She was awesome. "The Lucky One"... ahhhh I wore that 45 out lol.

she had a beautiful voice too

I thought she was great. I remember "Morning Train" when it came out (I was about 4 or 5) and the catchy adhesive pop chorus, "My baby, he's a working man, he works from 9 to 5 each day" and the video showing her with a very mid 80s look for 1980 ( I would have expected a coiffure and least one overly flared or lapelled piece of clothing) riding a hobby train and then a real one. Its the memories that are zapped into your mind.

In Comparison, I barely remember Sugar Walls, and don't even like it, in fact all her Prince era material is dross compared to Mornin Train. U got the look is alright, but Arms of Orion is aural torture.

KCOOLMUZIQ said:

U Got the Look, 1987

Prince + Sheena Easton

^

Adorecream said:

Nonsense, Prince did not make her, she was a huge star in Britain before Prince was even on the charts. Morning train from 1980, was her first huge hit, and she was discovered on a British TV talent programme. She is about 42, I think she was barely 20 when she hit with Morning Train. But by 1984 after the huge hit "For Your eyes only", Prince gave her the smutty little hit Sugar Walls and everyone thinks that was her start.

I am not sure about her origin, but I suspect she has some Asian blood in her as well (Malaysian or Chinese) but I may be wrong and confuisng her with early 90s singer Betty Boo (Doing the Do, Boomania), the one who was caught lipsinking in 1990 on stage.

Scotland seems to be good at throwing up these very beautiful partly exotic singers, the lead singer of Texas, last name is Spiteri is Maltese, so she is probably mixed Scottish/Maltese.

Probably the first time black folks heard of her was because of Prince because that's how I got to know her but she was around before I was born. Otherwise this woman already had like three Grammys before she got with him.

Adorecream said:

I thought she was great. I remember "Morning Train" when it came out (I was about 4 or 5) and the catchy adhesive pop chorus, "My baby, he's a working man, he works from 9 to 5 each day" and the video showing her with a very mid 80s look for 1980 ( I would have expected a coiffure and least one overly flared or lapelled piece of clothing) riding a hobby train and then a real one. Its the memories that are zapped into your mind.

In Comparison, I barely remember Sugar Walls, and don't even like it, in fact all her Prince era material is dross compared to Mornin Train. U got the look is alright, but Arms of Orion is aural torture.

Yep! I can't stand Sugar Walls HATED IT but love her more "innocent" songs like Morning Train and For Your Eyes Only-beautiful songs that suit her voice.

[Edited 4/19/12 16:13pm]

Prince so nasty.

"Blood races to your private spots"

"Temperatures rise inside my sugar walls"

And people wonder why Kandi from Xscape is putting powdered sugar in her veejayjay. Its all Prince's fault. Ol dog. Gawd I love him!

HotGritz said:

Prince so nasty.

"Blood races to your private spots"

"Temperatures rise inside my sugar walls"

And people wonder why Kandi from Xscape is putting powdered sugar in her veejayjay. Its all Prince's fault. Ol dog. Gawd I love him!

Sugar Walls

Songwriters: NELSON, PRINCE ROGERS

Where I come from there's a place called Heaven
That's the place where all the good children go
The houses are of silver, the streets of gold
But there's more where you come from my sugar walls

My sugar walls
My sugar walls

Blood races to your private spots
Let me know there's a fire
You can't fight passion when passion is hot
Temperatures rise inside my sugar walls

Let me take you somewhere, you've never been
I could show you things you've never seen
Well, I could make you never wanna fall in love again
Come spend the night inside my sugar walls

Take advantage
It's alright


I feel so alive when I'm with you
Come and feel my presence
It's reigning tonight
Heaven on Earth inside my sugar walls

Let me take you somewhere, you've never been
Well, I could show you things you've never seen
Well, I could make you never wanna fall in love again
Come spend the night inside my sugar walls

I can tell you want me
It's impossible to hide
Your body's on fire
Admit it come inside

My sugar walls
My sugar walls
Come inside
My sugar walls
My sugar walls

My sugar walls
Come spend the night inside
My sugar walls

My sugar walls
My sugar walls

Prince got it backwards doesn't he? The good children COME OUT of heaven, assuming heaven is pussy. Sometimes they take the short route and get cut out of heaven. Or something.

HotGritz said:

Prince so nasty.

"Blood races to your private spots"

"Temperatures rise inside my sugar walls"

And people wonder why Kandi from Xscape is putting powdered sugar in her veejayjay. Its all Prince's fault. Ol dog. Gawd I love him!

LOL i'm still surprised they played Sugar Walls on the radio back then.

No one knew what it really meant back then. Even in interviews Sheena would say its about visiting a candy store....

If no one knew what the song meant, how could it have made her a sex symbol? It would be no different than singing I Am The Walrus.

HotGritz said:

Prince so nasty.

"Blood races to your private spots"

"Temperatures rise inside my sugar walls"

And people wonder why Kandi from Xscape is putting powdered sugar in her veejayjay.

What?!

Isn't she placing herself at risk for a vaginal infection?

[Edited 4/19/12 18:01pm]