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Loleatta Holloway (born November 5, 1946 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American singer, mainly known for disco songs such as "Dreamin'" and "Love Sensation" (both of which have been greatly sampled).

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She began gospel singing with her mother in the Holloway Community Singers and she has also recorded with Albertina Walker in The Caravans gospel group. Holloway was also a cast member of the Chicago troupe of Don't Bother Me I Can't Cope.

Holloway found moderate disco success when she placed eighteen songs on the Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart, including four Number ones, and was featured on Dan Hartman's disco classic, "Vertigo / Relight My Fire". In the early 1980s, she had another dance hit with "Crash Goes Love", before she had her first Number one in the UK with "Ride On Time" by Black Box, which featured vocal samples from her own Salsoul recording, "Love Sensation". Her hit was also sampled again in 1991 when Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch featured her vocals in the chart topping cover version of the song "Good Vibrations". Loleatta also performed with Marky Marky and the Funky Bunch, to promote to single, and received full vocal credit and royalties, unlike "Ride On Time" with Black Box. Despite the Black Box copyright infringements (see: white label), both "Ride On Time" and "Good Vibrations" help elevate Holloway to legendary status in the dance music/disco community.

More recent dance chart entries include "What Goes Around Comes Around" (GTS featuring Loleatta Holloway) in 2000 and "Relight My Fire" (credited to Martin featuring Loleatta Holloway), which hit #5 in 2003.

Her latest hit "Love Sensation '06" peaked at #22 in the Dutch Top 40^[1] and reached #37 on the UK Singles Chart as well as #49 in Australia.

Today, Holloway resides in Chicago, and occasionally tours.

• "Cry To Me" (#10 R&B, #38, US Billboard Hot 100
• "Worn Out Broken Heart" (#25 R&B)
• "Only You" with Bunny Sigler (#11 R&B)
• "Love Sensation"
• "Vertigo / Relight My Fire" (with Dan Hartman)
• "Dreamin'" (US#72, USR&B#86 ) A Tom Moulton mix
• "Hit and Run"
• "Catch Me on the Rebound"
• "Crash Goes Love" (#5 US Dance) (Latin freestyle music classic)
• Black Box - "Ride On Time" (#1 UK; samples "Love Sensation"; also Britain's best selling single of 1989)
• Marky Mark (aka Mark Wahlberg) & The Funky Bunch- "Good Vibrations" (#1 US, #14 UK; Prominently Features Holloway's Vocals/Sampling from "Love Sensation." This was Holloway's only major US Pop Hit)
• "What Goes Around Comes Around" GTS featuring Loleatta Holloway

• List of number-one hits (United States)
• List of artists who reached number one on the Hot 100 (U.S.)
• List of number-one dance hits (United States)
• List of artists who reached number one on the U.S. Dance chart

1. ^ Dutch Top 40

• Love Sensation 06 Remix Video