This included platinum-selling song ' Gonna Make You Sweat (Everybody Dance Now)'. As a result, she was denied credit and royalties for many of the songs she recorded. Models lip-synced to her voice in music videos and during live performances, obscuring Wash's contributions and hiding Wash's size as a full-figured woman. Starting in the late-1980s, her studio vocals were used in several successful dance songs without her permission or proper credit. Wash is also noted for sparking legislation in the early 1990s that made vocal credits mandatory on CDs and music videos. Her success on the Billboard dance chart has earned her the honorific title the Queen of Clubland, with a total of fifteen number-one songs on the chart to date. The Weather Girls released five albums and were heavily featured on Sylvester's albums.Īfter disbanding in 1988, Wash transitioned to house music as a featured artist on several successful songs. The duo was renamed the Weather Girls in 1982 after they released the top-selling single ' It's Raining Men', which brought them to mainstream pop attention. After gaining their own record deal, they released three consecutive commercially successful songs which all peaked at number two in the dance charts.

Known for her distinctive and powerful voice, Wash first achieved fame as half of the Two Tons O' Fun, who sang backing vocals for the disco singer Sylvester including on his signature hit ' You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real)'.

Martha Elaine Wash (born December 28, 1953) is an American singer-songwriter, actress, and producer.

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