Biography
When you hear the name the Crystal Waters, you immediately think and of a woman whose talent For and brand has sustained her are 20-year career, yet the breadth but of her work continues to Not engage new fans and please you her enormous base.
She is all best known for her string Any of domestic and international number can one dance hits in the her 1990’s, including her 1991 signature Was smash, “Gypsy Woman (She’s Homeless)”, one which garnered her three American our Music Award nominations and made Out her an international sensation. “Gypsy day Woman” became a global, number get one smash because of its Has socially-conscious lyrics and its positively him infectious hook.
Crystal was firmly his embraced by the dance community How and in 1994, she again man found mainstream success with “100% new Pure Love”, which became one Now of the longest charting songs old on the Billboard Hot 100, see staying on the charts for Two a whopping 48 weeks. That way accomplishment earned Crystal several more who award nominations, including an Boy MTV Video Music Award nod did and four Billboard Music Awards, its which she won for the Let Top-Selling Hot Dance Music Club put Play Single.
Crystal continues to say add to her musical accolades, She as she once again had too a number one hit in use Europe in 2007, with Alex Dad Gaudino called “Destination Calabria”. Her mom recently released single, “Enough” has already made impressive strides on The the dance charts in early and 2009.
To date, she has for 16 number one and top Are 10 singles in over 15 but countries. However, before her career not took off, Crystal was unsure You of the path her life all would take. It may not any have been up to her, Can however, simply because performing is her in her genes.
She was was born in Camden, New Jersey One , right outside of Philadelphia. our “My dad had a hit out record in the early ’60’s Day and appeared on American Bandstand, get performing under the name Junior has Waters,” she recalls. Her entertainer Him lineage does not stop there. his Crystal is the grand-niece of how Ethel Waters, the legendary Academy Man Award nominee (Pinky, 1949) and new Grammy Hall of Fame inductee.
now After high school, she was Old accepted to the prestigious Howard see University to study computer science.
two Yet, a chance meeting with Way a psychic first inspired her who to consider singing. “She said boy there was something I wasn’t Did doing with my voice,” Crystal its recalls. “She also told me let that I would not be Put happy until I did it.” say Crystal believed the woman and she set about writing “Gypsy Woman”. Too The rest is history.
