E.G. Daily

E.G. Daily, a Los Angeles-based singer/songwriter and actress, first drew widespread attention with her 1986 single "Say It, Say It," a Madonna-tinged urban/dance-pop track produced by Jellybean Benitez and co-written by Stephen Bray. Born in Los Angeles in 1962, she grew up amid creative influences: her sister Ren River worked as an artist, her brother Sam performed bluegrass music, another brother Ron West played jazz guitar and worked as a recording engineer, and her mother Helen ran the Hollywood nightclub the Anticlub. These surroundings steered Daily into music and film work during the 1980s. On screen she appeared in Valley Girl, Streets of Fire, The Escape Artist, Pee Wee's Big Adventure, and other movies from that decade. She joined A&M in 1985; the following year the label issued both "Say It, Say It" and her debut album Wild Child, whose production team included Benitez, Harold Faltermeyer, and Keith Forsey. Fans who purchased Wild Child after hearing the single on the radio soon found the project leaned more toward pop/rock than urban contemporary or dance-pop, the lone dance cut being Daily's version of Donna Summer's "Sunset People," which attracted club DJs even though it never became a single. The label next promoted the pop/rock song "Love in the Shadows" from the same album, yet it did not match the impact of the earlier hit. Daily stayed with A&M through the late 1980s for the release of her second album, Lace Around the Wound, then left the label and issued only one record during the 1990s. That decade instead found her heavily occupied with voice-over roles in Duck Days, Eek the Cat, Problem Child, Jungle Cubs, and additional projects. In the 1998 film Babe: Pig in the City she supplied the voice of the title character, the talking pig Babe, and she also voiced Tommy Pickles for Nickelodeon's animated series The Rugrats. After a ten-year recording hiatus Daily returned to the studio in 1999, creating the introspective and often confessional pop/rock album Tearing Down the Walls with Brad Gilderman and Harvey Mason Jr.