Her follow-up album, Stay with Me, released in 1989. The song was her first single to appear on the Adult Contemporary (chart), peaking at #8 and was also her first single to appear in four charts, including the UK Singles, peaking at #85, her best position in this chart until 1989. In the same year, Belle recorded her first successful duet with Peabo Bryson: the song " Without You", the love theme from the comedy film Leonard Part 6, also released in 1987. It includes her first hits "So Many Tears" and "Show Me the Way". In 1987, she released her debut album All by Myself. They eventually signed her to a record deal. She recorded a second duet, " Maybe Tomorrow", which appeared on the B-side of "Where Did We Go Wrong". She recorded the duet "Where Did We Go Wrong" with the group on their Back to Basics album, which helped to attract the attention of Columbia Records. She was introduced to the Manhattans by New York radio DJ Vaughn Harper and began working as their opening act. She attended Rutgers University and became the first female vocalist with the school's jazz ensemble.īelle's musical influences include Phyllis Hyman, Billie Holiday, Shirley Caesar, Patti LaBelle, and Nancy Wilson. After graduation, Belle studied opera at the Manhattan School of Music.
She attended Dwight Morrow High School, where she studied trombone, tuba and steel drums. She sang her first solo in church at the age of eight. It was at Englewood's Mount Calvary Baptist Church, and then Paterson's Friendship Baptist Church (presided over by Belle's uncle, the Reverend Fred Belle), that Belle began attracting attention with her vocal abilities. Biography Early life and education īelle was born in Englewood, New Jersey.
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