Yarbrough & Peoples

Group Members:

Cavin Yarbrough (background vocals/keyboardist)
Alisa Peoples (lead vocalist)

Yarbrough and Peoples was an American R&B duo from Dallas, Texas. Their biggest selling release was "Don't Stop the Music", a US Billboard R&B chart topper in 1981.
Cavin Yarbrough and Alisa Peoples, both grew up in Dallas. They knew each other since they were children, as they had met taking piano lessons. They remained friends throughout their childhood.

Yarbrough met the Wilson brothers while on tour in the band of Leon Russell. He returned to Dallas, and started a band (Grand Theft), of which he and Peoples were the lead singers and keyboardists. In 1977, the Wilson brothers (who had just joined Total Experience Records as the Gap Band) went down to Dallas to perform a concert, and saw Yarbrough and Peoples, who were performing at a club in Dallas.

Lonnie Simmons invited the couple to Los Angeles and in 1979, they signed a recording contract and released their first album, The Two Of Us. It contained "Don't Stop the Music", which topped the US Billboard R&B chart in early 1981, knocking their label-mate, the Gap Band's song "Burn Rubber on Me (Why You Wanna Hurt Me)" out of the top spot. It went on to chart higher on the Billboard Hot 100 than any of the other songs released on the label. The album went gold, peaking at #16 in the Billboard Hot 200 album chart. The UK release of "Don't Stop the Music" reached #7 in the UK Singles Chart.

The duo continued its R&B success throughout the 1980s, with four more Top 10 R&B hits. "Heartbeats" (R&B #10 in 1983), "Don't Waste Your Time" (Pop #48, R&B #1 in 1984; #60 UK), "Guilty" (R&B #2 in 1986; #53 UK), and "I Wouldn't Lie" (R&B #6 in 1986; #61 UK) all brought the band success.. After Guilty, their final album for Total Experience, Yarbrough and Peoples would leave the label in 1986.

After leaving Total Experience, Yarbrough and Peoples

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