ATLANTIC STARR
	HIT SINGLES "Stand Up" "Send For Me" "Secret Lovers" "Always" "Masterpiece"

One of the most consistently successful – and underrated – soul bands of the 80s, Atlantic Starr's memorable songs still sound good today.

The group, consisting of lead singer Sharon Bryant and musicians Cliff Archer, Porter Carroll, Joseph Phillips, Damon Rentie, William Sudderth and brothers Wayne, David and Jonathan Lewis, signed with A&M Records and in 1978 released their debut, working with noted Philly guitarist Bobbi Eli.  They landed an R&B hit with “Stand Up” and had some success on the Pop and Soul album charts.

Their big break came 2 years later when they teamed with Commodores producer James Anthony Carmichael for Radiant, a smash album that landed in the Soul top ten on the strength of the hits “When Love Calls” and the stunning ballad “Send For Me” (later remade by Gerald Alston). This began a string of hit albums and singles such as “Touch A Four Leaf Clover,” “Circles” and “Freak-A-Ristic” that quietly moved the group to the top of the soul music world, though with surprisingly little crossover success.

The lack of success on the pop charts, at a time when many top soul acts were successfully crossing over, led to both personnel and stylistic changes for the band, beginning with 1985’s As the Band Turns.  The group membership shifted dramatically, shrinking to a quintet featuring the three Lewis brothers, Phillips and new lead singer Barbara Weathers.  The new lineup scored an immediate across-the-board smash with “Secret Lovers” -- their biggest single to date. The group left A&M for Warner Brothers in 1987 and landed their first pop #1 with “Always”.

Weathers left the group in 1988, to be followed by a string of female leads over the next decade.  In 1992, Atlantic Starr scored another major hit with “Masterpiece”, a ballad penned by pop writer Kenny Nolan (“I Like Dreaming,” “Penny For Your Thoughts”).

Atlantic Starr left Warner Brothers for Arista in 1994 and released Time, which contained the pop hit “I Remember You”.  Brothers Wayne and Jonathan Lewis  continue to tour today with a rotating lineup of musicians.

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