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| - Taylor Dayne (born Leslie Wunderman ; March 7, 1962) is an American pop vocalist, songwriter, dance artist, and actress. Overall, she has 17 individual Top Tens on Billboard Charts including, most recently, her 2008 Billboard #1 %22Beautiful%22. Dayne's career ignited with seven consecutive top ten Billboard Hot 100 hits including the #1 Love Will Lead You Back; she has also topped the U.S. Billboard Hot Dance Club Play chart three times.CareerTaylor Dayne began singing professionally after graduating from high school in Baldwin, Nassau County, New York, singing in little-known rock bands such as Felony and Next. She began singing solo after finishing college, and released the dance single %22I'm The One You Want%22 under the name Les Lee in 1985.Signed to Arista Records, her first song to crack the top ten was the dance-pop hit %22Tell It to My Heart%22 in 1987. The song was an instant smash worldwide, peaking in the top five of most major markets worldwide, and achieving a peak of number one in many countries, including Germany. The hit songs that followed included %22Prove Your Love%22, %22I'll Always Love You%22, %22Don't Rush Me%22, %22With Every Beat of My Heart%22, %22Love Will Lead You Back%22, %22I'll Be Your Shelter%22, %22Heart of Stone%22, %22Send Me a Lover%22, %22Naked Without You%22, and %22Whatever You Want%22.In the United States, she achieved three gold singles, with %22Tell It to My Heart%22, %22I'll Always Love You%22, and %22Love Will Lead You Back%22. %22I'll Always Love You%22, a change-of-pace ballad compared to Dayne's earlier releases, was her breakout hit on the Adult Contemporary charts in 1988 and paved the way for future uptempo dance tracks such as %22Don't Rush Me%22 and %22With Every Beat Of My Heart%22 to gain acceptance at Adult Contemporary radio.In 1990, %22Love Will Lead You Back%22, a Diane Warren composition, peaked at #1 on both the Billboard Hot 100 and the Hot Adult Contemporary Tracks chart. In 1993, she sang a cover of Barry White' 1974 hit Can't Get Enough of Your Love. The song reached #2 in the Aria Charts in Australia.As an actress, Dayne appeared in the 1997 Sci-fi television series Nightman as Carla Day, a singer who is also the leading character's love interest, performing many jazz songs alongside Marc Bonilla and Dragonchoir. Later on, she performed on Broadway in Elton John's Aida in 2001. She has had roles in independent films such as Fool's Paradise (1997), Stag (also in 1997) and Jesus the Driver (2004), as well as the Warren Beatty-produced 1994 remake of Love Affair. Dayne also had a recurring role on the Showtime series Rude Awakening.Taylor Dayne was featured in the VH1 series Remaking, which featured her close friends, Leah Remini and Michelle Reid (also referred to as the Don on VH1). The series documents Dayne's return to music after taking time off to have a family, (she has twins, Levi and Astaria ...
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| - Leslie Wunderman (born March 7, 1962), better known by her recording and stage names Les Lee and Taylor Dayne, is an American pop and freestyle music singer-songwriter and actress. In late 1987, she scored her first major hit when her debut single %22Tell It to My Heart%22 reached No. 7 on the Hot 100. She then went on to have a string of hits in the late 1980s and early 1990s, including the No. 1 Billboard hit %22Love Will Lead You Back%22. Overall, she has had eighteen individual hit songs reach the top ten in Billboard magazine. These include most recently, the 2011 American and international hit %22Floor on Fire%22 and the 2008 song %22Beautiful%22, which reached the top spot on the Billboard Hot Dance Club Play chart. She has also topped the U.S. Billboard Hot Dance Club Play chart three times.
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