With her broad Lancashire accent and bubbly personality, Lisa Stansfield not
only became one of Britain's best-loved pop stars of the 1980s but she also
enjoyed big success in America as one of the few white singers to hit the higher
reaches of the R&B charts. Initially a presenter on teen TV show 'Razzmatazz',
Stansfield's chart success came with the band Blue Zone which had hits with 'On
Fire' and 'Jackie'. She enjoyed further acclaim singing on the Coldcut hit
'People Hold On' but the 1989 smash 'All Around the World' - a UK number one and
a US number three - was her greatest ...