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Nice songs you added. Was the Martika song used in a movie? Also, who was better, Tiffany or Debbie Gibson? I vote Debbie.
Hello Gazelam,
Here is Part of the Martika Wikipedia Article, Mostly about this:
Rise to prominence
Her first album, 1988's Martika, spawned the anti-drug abuse song “Toy Soldiers”, which was a top 5 hit in the United Kingdom and many other countries. In the U.S., "Toy Soldiers" spent two weeks at #1 and was certified Gold by the RIAA. Two additional releases also went Top 40 in the U.S., "More Than You Know" (#18) and "I Feel the Earth Move" (#25, a remake of Carole King’s #1 from her classic album Tapestry). Both of those tracks also hit the top 20 on the Dance charts in the U.S.
Further releases from the debut album were "Water", a modest hit in the UK and Australia, and "If You're Tarzan I'm Jane". The album was certified Gold in the U.S. in 1989.
Following years
Martika was encouraged by her agent to combine her love of film and music by scoring soundtracks and, in 1990, she wrote and recorded the song “Blue Eyes are Sensitive to the Light” for the soundtrack to the film Arachnophobia. The producers of the album did not like her vocals and so the song was re-recorded by Sara Hickman for the film, though Martika retained her writing credit. The song has also been recorded by Brazilian singers Deborah Blando (on her 1991 debut, A Different Story) and Elba Ramalho.
In 1991 Martika was approached by Prince and became one of the “Prince Protégées”. The collaboration managed to score a U.S. Top 10 single, her second and last to date, with "Love... Thy Will Be Done", despite peaking at #31 on the Hot 100 Airplay charts and at #24 on the Hot Singles Sales charts. Her second album, Martika's Kitchen, peaked at #111, and the title track received only minor airplay. However, the album was a significant success abroad, though on a lesser scale than her debut, spawning hits with the songs “Coloured Kisses” and “Temptation”. However, it faded quickly from the charts and went out of print.
In 1991 she wrote the song "Temptation" for Patti LaBelle's album Burnin'.
Martika played the role of the lounge singer and undercover cop Dahlia Mendez in the early 1990s cop show Wiseguy, opposite Ken Wahl, but the return to acting was brief and she eventually faded from the public eye around 1993.
In 1997 a greatest hits album entitled The Best of Martika: More Than You Know was released. It achieved sales figures of over 500,000 copies internationally.
Here is the Hyper-Link to this whole Article:
Martika:
Here is the Hyper-Link to the Toy Soldiers Song on Wikipedia:
Toy Soldiers (Song):
I also think that Debbie Gibson was better than Tiffany.
Debbie Gibson - Out Of The Blue 1987:
