Shawn Christopher is a female dance music singer from Chicago, Illinois.
She was a touring backing vocalist for R&B singer Chaka Khan from 1982 to 1985. She is also a former member of the industrial dance band known as My Life With the Thrill Kill Kult, and sang with the group Sonia Dada. She is the sister of the R&B singer, keyboardist, and producer, Gavin Christopher.
She sang the lead vocals on a song by deejay and record producer, Lil Louis, titled "French Kiss", in 1989. The song became a #1 hit on the Billboard Hot Dance Club Play chart that year.
During the 1990s, she also scored three #1 singles on the Hot Dance Club Play chart in her own right: "Another Sleepless Night", in 1991 (which also reached #67 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, and #50 on the UK Singles Chart); "Don't Lose the Magic", in 1992 (which peaked at #71 on the Hot 100, and UK chart #30); and "Sweet Freedom", in 1998. In addition, she sang backing vocals on Jimmy Somerville's #1 Hot Dance Club Play track from 1995, "Heartbeat".
She also recorded a song entitled "Thinking About the Way" in the early 1990s, and reached #57 in the UK in 1994 with "Make My Love".
In 2009, Christopher returned to dance music. With producer Ralphi Rosario she scored the #1 single "Everybody Shake It." It topped the charts for the week of Oct. 17, 2009.
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