Soul singer - songwriter - producer - manager
Cousin of R&B singer . Formerly married to Businessman and Producer/Record Executive .
Date of Birth: August 29, 1964 in Oakland, California/U.S.
She was a R&B and pop star who released three original albums and several successful singles in the late '80s and early '90s and also founded and managed group . After a lack of hits and legal battles with and her former producer/husband she became a born-again Christian and founded the Women Of God Changing Lives ministry. She now goes by the moniker Sister Perri.
Associated with Production/Management company / and Music Publishers and .
Name Vars
- Pebless
- Peebles
- Reid-Pebbles
- The Pebbles
Aliases
- Perri McKissack
- Sister Perri
- Perri Reid
- Perri Smith
Here's what was going on in the `80s, up to about `91, regarding "album versions versus single versions." I first noticed this disparity my sophomore year of high school when "Everything She Wants" by Wham! was released as a single. The album version was SO SPARE and bare-bones compared to the new single release. So we came to know and love that LP version, and then when the single dropped, we were surprised with NEW, exciting keyboard parts, and a NEW vocal bridge! This made the public go out and buy the single version, too. Seriously, when you go back and listen to that album version on "Make It Big," you can actually hear some very faint "ghosts" of the more lush keyboard parts that are heard on the single that was released months later. Columbia (U.S.) repeated this successful formula mere weeks later with the follow-up single "Freedom." Again, there was something new and different on the single; a "new" outro that was very appealing, with added horns and ad-lib vocals, and it drove sales for the single, naturally. ........ So, the same thing is true of this version of Pebbles' song. It's all about the money. You do things this way, doubling up on the remix for the single, and you're making at least 25% more money for your record company than if you just did things the plain, conventional, pre-1980s way. Y'all know this as well as I do, if you think about it.
No one ever had to tell me ANY this stuff, by the way... lol.. It is common sense if you're as interested in the (old) music business as I was. I learned all this just by constantly listening, and reading, and noticing, and absorbing all the information I ever saw and heard.