Fayette Pinkney - One Degree

Fayette Pinkey formed The Three Degrees back in 1967 with Sheila Fergusson and Valerie Holiday and achieved worldwide success with When Will I See You Again and Take Good Care of Yourself.She left the group in 1976 to pursue roles outside of the music industry. In 1979 a new record label (ChopperRecords formed by Laurence Bristow and Geoff Morrow) snatched Fayette from under the noses of EMI and signed her to record a solo album.The album One Degree was recorded at the famous CBS studios at Whitfield Street, London and produced by Geoff and Keith Mansfield (he was responsible for the classic arrangements on Love Affair's Everlasting Love and Marmalade's Loving Things). Fayette died in 2009 at the age of just 61.