Sabrina Johnston is an American singer, best known for her 1991 club anthem, "Peace", which reached the Top 10 in the UK Singles Chart.
Career
Johnston grew up in the United States attending summer music camps, dance and voice classes before enrolling at Cheyney State University as a music major. Johnston released her debut album, Peace, in 1992, which features her hit single of the same name. Further singles released from the album were "Friendship" and "I Wanna Sing". In the same year, Johnston appeared on the Red Hot Organization's dance compilation album, Red Hot + Dance, contributing an original track, "Peace (Nu-Mix)", to raise awareness and money in support of the AIDS epidemic.
A second album, Sabrina, was released in Japan only in 1996, and re-titled Yum Yum for its US release in 1998. Johnston made an appearance as a backing vocalist on Lauryn Hill's "To Zion", from the 1998 album, The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill.
Discography
Albums
- Sabrina Johnston (1992)
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- "Peace" (4:02)
- "Friendship" (4:06)
- "Don't Hide Your Love" (3:55)
- "Yours That Kind of Love" (5:35)
- "Anniversary Lover" (3:59)
- "I Wanna Sing" (3:55)
- "Glory" (5:04)
- "We Need Each Other" (3:52)
- "Give It to Me" (4:06)
- "Hyway 95" (3:58)
- Yum Yum (1998)
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- "Reasons" (3:13)
- "Tonight" (3:24)
- "Yum Yum" (3:14)
- "Ain't Nobody Gonna Stop Me" (3:05)
- "No" (2:30)
- "Your In My Life" (3:42)
- "Lay Me Down" (4:15)
- "Sorry" (3:04)
- "You Need My Lovin'" (3:33)
- "I Can Feel It Happen" (5:07)
- "Tonight" (9:34)
Singles
Year | Single | Peak chart positions | Album | |||||||||
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1991 | "Peace (In The Valley)" | — | 24 | 14 | — | 23 | 8 | Peace | ||||
"Friendship" | 30 | 64 | — | 9 | — | 58 | ||||||
1992 | "I Wanna Sing" | — | — | — | — | — | 46 | |||||
"Gypsy Woman / Peace Remixes" | — | — | — | — | — | 35 | Red Hot + Dance | |||||
1993 | "You Got Me (Love So Sweet)" | — | — | — | — | — | — | singles only | ||||
1994 | "Satisfy My Love" | — | — | — | — | — | 62 | |||||
1995 | "Free, Gay & Happy" | — | 152 | — | — | — | 50 | |||||
1998 | "Reasons" | 31 | — | — | — | — | — | Yum Yum | ||||
2001 | "Lift You Up" | — | — | — | — | — | — | single only | ||||
"—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released. |