Kiki Dee

During the final stretch of the 1960s and into the early 1970s, Kiki Dee worked the British circuit as a white soul singer, a path that led her to become the first British Caucasian artist placed under contract with Motown. Her trajectory shifted after linking with Elton John, who placed her on his Rocket Records roster and guided production of her initial standout single, "I've Got the Music in Me."

When 1976 arrived and John ranked as the planet’s foremost pop attraction, he penned and shared vocals with Dee on the release "Don't Go Breaking My Heart," which quickly ascended to the top of charts worldwide. The success failed to establish Dee as a sustained headliner, yet she still registered a pair of later hits inside England and earned stage recognition, most prominently by taking a starring role in Blood Brothers in the West End. In 1993 the pair reunited for another duet on Cole Porter’s “True Love,” a song previously rendered as a duet by Bing Crosby and Grace Kelly.