Jaki Graham The Studio Albums 1985-1998 (7-CD)

Limited seven CD box. In the 30th anniversary year since the release of Jaki Graham's debut album, Heaven Knows, Edsel is releasing a Special Edition box set containing the seven albums that were recorded for EMI Records and Japan's Avex Records. From March 1985, Jaki Graham had six consecutive UK Top 20 hit singles (including three Top 10 hits), 'Could It Be I'm Falling In Love', 'Round And Round', 'Mated', 'Set Me Free', 'Breaking Away' and 'Step Right Up', two of them being duets with fellow-British soul singer David Grant, leading her to become of the UK's best R&B/soul artists, whose singles gained her international recognition, including a US Billboard Dance Chart #1 in 1995, with a cover of Rufus & Chaka Khan's 'Ain't Nobody'. This 7CD, 86-track anthology includes the albums Heaven Knows, Breaking Away, From Now On, Real Life, Hold On, Rhythm Of Life and My Life, with the latter four Avex albums now receiving their first official UK release. The booklet includes a 9,000+ word liner note by internationally acclaimed music writer, Justin Kantor, constructed from new interviews undertaken with Jaki Graham and producers Derek Bramble, Errol Henry and Marlon McClain.