38 Facts About CeCe Peniston

Cecilia Veronica "CeCe" Peniston is an American singer and former beauty queen.

CeCe Peniston was born in Dayton, Ohio, but spent the majority of her formative years in Phoenix, Arizona, where she was raised from the age of nine.

CeCe Peniston participated in local karaoke contests and singing talent shows, while taking piano lessons.

CeCe Peniston attended Trevor G Browne High School, class of 1987, in Phoenix, and landed a part in a local theater group's production of Bubblin' Brown Sugar.

CeCe Peniston's music career began in January 1991, when Felipe "DJ Wax Dawg" Delgado, her friend and a record producer based in Phoenix, asked Peniston to record back-up vocals for Tonya Davis, a black female rapper known as Overweight Pooch after her childhood nickname.

Later, as it became clear that CeCe Peniston was leaping from the Overweight Pooch's album to the top of the charts, rumor had it the Pooch was stewing over CeCe Peniston's using Female Preacher as her springboard.

CeCe Peniston was 21 years old when her debut single "Finally" was released.

Between releases, CeCe Peniston made a jazzy cameo "Don't Forget the Love" with words and music by a Grammy Award-nominated composer, Jeff Lorber, and Eric Benet for his album West Side Stories.

In February 1996, Billboard posted information that singer was putting the finishing touches to her new studio album, I'm Movin' On, slated for its release in May Judging from the magazine's earlier preview of several cuts, Billboard published that CeCe Peniston was about to explore more mature jeep-soul fare a la Faith Evans, and that she has never sounded so assured and convincingly soulful.

CeCe Peniston contributed to the set with three songs she co-wrote.

People will make the change with you as long as you're honest about your craft and display a comfort for what it is that you're doing," two years later CeCe Peniston actually confirmed her doubts, after being questioned by the magazine: "I can speak about this firsthand, believe me.

CeCe Peniston gave me a lot in terms of pronouncing words to make them sound like they need to sound, but that's not actually what you're saying.

Rumors about CeCe Peniston working in Chicago on a new album with Steve "Silk" Hurley sprang up after "Nobody Else", a gospel-infused sirene and her debut on the producer's label, saw its official release in 1998.

CeCe Peniston's second solo number on the Full Flava's compilation Colour of My Soul was titled "I Think about Him", and it was a mid-tempo that Peniston co-wrote with Derbyshire and Mullings.

Back to the States on 2 June 2005, CeCe Peniston appeared on the NBC network as a contestant of the summer's reality TV Hit Me, Baby, One More Time.

CeCe Peniston competed on the show performing "Finally" plus a Faith Hill's song, "There You'll Be", in favor of a hip-hop group, Arrested Development.

CeCe Peniston's character was a forty-year-old Christian woman saving herself for marriage, and the film featured gospel music performed by herself.

On September 19,2005, CeCe Peniston was invited to appear at Manhattan Center, Grand Ballroom, NYC, to be present at the 2nd Annual Dance Music Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony, along with Wanda Dee, Nile Rodgers, Freddie Jackson, and Kathy Sledge.

CeCe Peniston's following music project was a common duet with David Longoria, a songwriter and trumpet player whose work was previously noticed on records of for example Sting and George Michael.

CeCe Peniston further calculated to be done "within the next three or four months" with her studio record.

CeCe Peniston's cover version was attached to Full Flava's retro album, Music Is Our Way of Life, which reconstructed eleven dancefloor classics in total, and the compilation was released on Dome.

The CeCe Peniston's track was remixed by a Japanese producer, DJ Hasebe, to be featured in his disco medley named after the song, and for the purpose of a limited-edition single available only in Japan on vinyl.

Each diva performed overall three songs as a solo artist, while CeCe Peniston was the main star closing the night.

In 2007, CeCe Peniston teamed up with US house DJ Ron Carroll for a funky bomb, "I'm Feelin' U", which was released in May on the Soulfuric Recordings label.

CeCe Peniston's following promotional single, "Shame Shame Shame", released in UK in June 2007, was co-written by Matt, Warren Meyers and Kelly Mueller, better recognized as Soulshaker.

However, the year of 2008 passed with no significant news regarding her new solo studio project, the following June CeCe Peniston released "Above Horizons", a national PTA anthem as a tribute to the families, teachers and communities who help children reach their dreams through the PTA, Parent Teacher Association, which resulted from her role being a National Ambassador of the US largest volunteer child advocacy organization.

One month later, CeCe Peniston confirmed information regarding her new studio album live as a guest of the Wendy Williams birthday show, during which she performed "Finally".

CeCe Peniston's long-waited record would not be out even following years.

On February 4,2011, CeCe Peniston signed a recording contract with the independent label West Swagg Music Group, established by Lupe Rose in 2010.

CeCe Peniston currently has a deal with Bungalo Records, which is exclusively distributed by Universal Music Group Distribution.

One month prior to that, CeCe Peniston contributed to the March-issued various artists digital compilation titled Miami 2011 with "Make Me Say Oh", which is her fourth track recorded in collaboration with Ron Carroll.

In 1992, subsequent to the release of the debut album Finally, CeCe Peniston was briefly married to Malik Byrd, who co-wrote "Inside That I Cried" and appeared by her side in its video.

In 2003, CeCe Peniston married real estate professional Frank Martin from Halifax, Massachusetts.

CeCe Peniston previously had a financial struggle with a former account manager, Alvin Grubman, of Grubman and Associates of New York City.

CeCe Peniston has blazed two tracks on the albums Merry Arizona II and Merry Arizona 97, with proceeds going to multiple sclerosis.

CeCe Peniston had been requested to perform for US troops on the USS.

CeCe Peniston joined parents and educators to work toward improving the lives of children, as well as urging families to be more involved.

CeCe Peniston has acted in theatrical productions such plays as The Wiz, Treat Her Like a Lady or When a Woman's Fed Up, and later wrapped up shooting two independent films of the same genre.