Teri DeSario is a singer/songwriter from Miami, Florida. DeSario worked within several music genres out of high school. She was vocalist, played recorder and harp from 1970 - 1977 with a Medieval and Renaissance music group, the Early Music Consort, headed by scholar and Pro Musica member Arnold Grayson. She began her popular career as a singer/songwriter in the folk genre and later expanded her love of folk music with her passion for jazz. After marrying horn player, arranger, and composer Bill Purse, they founded a pop-folk-jazz collaborative called Abacus. One night a long- haired man walked into the club where she was performing, claiming to be the producer of the Bee Gees; it turned out he actually was. Barry Gibb heard her demo of original music and was so inspired by DeSario's vocals that he wrote a song for her called "Ain't Nothing Gonna Keep Me From You" and helped her obtain a recording contract.
"Ain't Nothing Gonna Keep Me From You" from 1978 was Teri DeSario's first hit single, written by the Bee Gees' lead vocalist/songwriter Barry Gibb, from her first album Pleasure Train, also released in 1978.
The first single from her debut, Pleasure Train, made #43 on the U.S. pop charts.
In the U.S. Teri DeSario is mainly known for her duet with KC, lead singer of the phenomenal R&B and funk group KC and the Sunshine Band of the popular Barbara Mason cover, (Pop # 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 and certified gold, Adult Contemporary #1 for 2 weeks) "Yes, I'm Ready" from 1980, from her second album Moonlight Madness, released in 1979. Follow-up singles (album title track) "Moonlight Madness" and a remake of "Dancin' In The Streets" charted but didn't make Billboard Top 40.
By the end of 1980, her hit "Yes, I'm Ready", granted herself one-hit wonder status, with the disco-era making an exit, even though her duet with KC was a pop-fused remake of a famous slow-dancing ballad.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RnvwcGLWybI
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