Adeva
Biography
Adeva, born Patricia Annice Daniels, is an American house music singer, born in 1960 in Paterson, New Jersey.
She began her professional career in the mid-1980s and signed in 1988 with the British label Cooltempo, a subsidiary of EMI. Her first UK success was a house cover of Otis Redding’s classic Respect, which reached number 17 on the charts.
Her debut album, *Adeva!*, released in August 1989, was a major success, reaching number 6 in the UK and achieving Platinum certification. It contained several hit singles like Warning! and I Thank You (both also reaching number 17), and Musical Freedom (reaching number 22). The track Warning! also became a Top 10 hit on the US Dance chart.
Her second album, *Love or Lust?* (1991), failed to chart but contained two US Dance chart successes: Independent Woman and the number-one hit It Should Have Been Me.
In 1995, she collaborated with house music pioneer Frankie Knuckles. Together, they released two UK Top 40 singles, Too Many Fish and Whadda U Want (From Me), and an album titled *Welcome to the Real World*.
Another album, *New Direction*, was released in 1997 on the Distinct’ive Records label. It included the single Where Is The Love? / The Way That You Feel, which reached number 54 in the UK.
Her 1988 track In and Out of My Life was later sampled by artists including OnePhatDeeva (1999), Radical Noiz, and Eric Prydz (2003-2004). She was also featured on the 2004 single Wish I Never Knew by the Scandinavian dance group Slippery People.
She has also collaborated with Paul Simpson and performed a duet with Monie Love.