CeCe Peniston

CeCe Peniston is an African American recording artist and former beauty queen. During the nineties, she scoring five major number one hits in the chart within three years. Her signature song "Finally" went #5 in the Hot 100 and #2 in UK Top 75 and became one of the biggest dance singles, selling three million copies worldwide.

CeCe Peniston entered the music industry as a backing vocalist on the Overweight Pooch album Female Preacher, released in July 1991.

Peniston released her own single "Finally" in August 1991 and her debut album, Finally, in January 1992. Both the album and the single were certified Gold by the Recording Industry Association of America. They also earned two Silver certifications from the British Phonographic Industry. "We Got a Love Thang" and "Keep On Walkin'", would give her three consecutively running number-1 hits on the U.S. Hot Dance Club Play, and on the Canadian RPM Dance/Urban chart. Additional songs from her debut album were "Inside That I Cried" and "Crazy Love" and were successes in the R&B charts. Peniston received a Best Female R&B/Soul Album-nomination at the 7th Soul Train Music Awards in 1993.

Her second studio album, Thought 'Ya Knew, was released in January 1994 and peaked at #96 in the Billboard 200. It yielded two chart-toppers in the U.S. with "I'm in the Mood" and "Hit by Love". "I'm Not Over You"] and "Keep Givin' Me Your Love", also achieved top-five status.

In 1996, she released her third album, I'm Movin' On, which featured "Movin' On" and "Before I Lay". In February 1998, Peniston released her remake of Jocelyn Brown's classic "Somebody Else's Guy" which climbed to number thirteen on the British singles chart. The song was also released on her greatest hits compilation The Best of CeCe Peniston.

Other singles Peniston has released inclued "He Loves Me 2" in 1999 and "Lifetime to Love" in 2000. She has collaborated with other artists, including "Reminiscin" with Ella Mae Saison,; "Deeper Love" with David Longoria, and "Shame Shame Shame" featuring Soulshaker.

Following a fifteen-year hiatus, she released an album, CeCe, in August 2011, including one new song called "Stoopid!".