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Balearic Breakfast | Episode 214 | I've Got a Woman In Me... (4h)

  • Writer: by The Lioncub
    by The Lioncub
  • Mar 4
  • 26 min read

Updated: Apr 30

Colleen 'Cosmo' Murphy broadcast the 214th episode of Balearic Breakfast on her Mixcloud on March 4th 2025.


About this episode. – Over the years, Balearic Breakfast has become a guiding light for its listeners. The Balearic Breakfast Family gladly follows Colleen on this incredible musical journey, always proposing great songs and, especially, when International Women day's around the corner!

Colleen's request line (which she published on March 1st, both on Facebook and on Instagram) got around 270 likes over the weekend and a lot, a whola lot of great requests too! Some of us, and it was a first timer for me, thanks Cosmo!, got two of their requests played today. If that ain't a proper party I don't know what it is, laughs!

On Facebook and on instagram, members of the Balearic Breakfast Family kept on celebrating an unbelieviably great show. As far as I'm concerned, Steve Clarke's message on Colleen's Instagram totaly nailed it: "What a fantastic show Artur, a few beautiful tracks I need to own 😂 Some really fantastic records that broaden my music taste and then what a beautiful mix to dance too towards the end. I think we've all had a tough year with several artists we all love passing but today's show was perfect ❤"

As always, you'll find in this post today's playlist with the links to the records, a short personnal and thus subjective presentation of the episode and of Course Colleen's presentation in full with links. Oh, and should you want to listen to other specials editions like this one dedicated to IWD, be my guest, I added a few liks too!


'Today’s Balearic Breakfast is now up on my Mixcloud and it’s a 4-hour International Women’s Day special. This is one of my favourite shows of the year (along with the BB Pride Special, Black History Month special and BB anniversary special). It is a wonderful to see everybody come together to celebrate women’s musicianship and creativity. Thank you all for your wonderful requests – there were so many that I didn’t even get one in myself!

And we also pay tribute to the late Angie Stone, a woman truly ahead of her time as she formed all-female hip hop act The Sequence in the late 70’s! She also collaborated with D’Angelo and wrote for Mary J Blige and released a couple of her own classic albums ‘Black Diamond’ and ‘Mahogany Soul’. Rest in Paradise Angie Stone.


Listen back to the 214th episode of Balearic Breakfast:


THE PLAYLIST


(2024) Ganavya – Journey in Satchidananda / Ghana Nila

(1956) Billie Holiday – I Thought About You

(1974) Minnie Ripperton – Lovin’ You

(1980) Merry Clayton – When the World Turns Blue

(1976) Letta Mbulu – There’s Music in the Air

(1972) Esther Marrow – Ghetto

(1981) Sharon Little – Don’t Mash Up Creation

(2020) Syleena Johnson – Woman

(1976) Etta James – Woman (Shake Your Booty)

(1988) Q Lazzarus – Goodbye Horses

(1996) Luscious Jackson – Naked Eye

(1993) K.D. lang – Lifted by Love (Club Xanax Remix)

(2024) Risa Minami – Jamaican Blue

(1994) Sinead O Connor – Fire on Babylon

(2021) Nina Simone – No Woman No Cry (Live at Montreux)

(2001) Angie Stone w/ Calvin Richardson – More Than a Woman

(1999) Angie Stone – No More Rain (in This Cloud)

(2024) Victoria Port – Cigarette

(2025) Michi – Walking Away

(1983) Grace Jones – My Jamaican Guy (Steven Stanley Mix)

(2000) Angie Stone – Life Story (Jazz Hop Mix)

(1991) Kirsty MacColl – Walking Down Madison (6am Ambient Mix)

(2023) Asha Puthli – Right Down Here (Psychemagik Remix)

(2024) Reyna Tropical – Conocerla

(2002) Abraham – Magpie (Morgan Geist Remix)

(1995) Betty Davis – She’s A Woman

(1978) Ms. Sharon Ridley – Changin'

(2024) Ruth Radelet – Stranger (Turbotito Remix)

(2007) Beth Orton – Stolen Car

(1980) Millie Jackson – This is It

(2018) Angelique Kidjo – Born Under Punches

(1982) Alfie Silas – You're A Star

(1979) Stephanie Mills – Put Your Body in It

(1980) Lenore O'Malley – First Be a Woman

(2024) Crazy P ft Danielle Moore – Human After All

(2025) Mamacita – Tu Amor (Double Drop Luke é Soul Re-Edit)

(2006) Goldfrapp – Ride a White Horse (FK-EK Vocal Version)

(1998) Ultra Nate – Found a Cure (Mood II Swing Mix)

(2022) Miss Patty & Saison – Spark It Up

(2002) Angie Stone – Wish I Didn't Miss You (Pound Boys Remix)

(1974) The Kiki Dee Band – I Got the Music in Me


COLLEEN IN THE NEWS


For your information, Colleen will be playing live on :


Colleen also has several Classic Album Sundays events to come, one of the greatest being the one she will host with Coco Maria. Click here to find out!


THE LISTENING EXPERIENCE


A Huge Thank you to every member of the Family for the great Requests!

Yes, We're One...


These special editions are always a real musical trip to experience. They allow Colleen to extend Balearic Breakfast's soul with longer mixes and a slower pace, letting the listener enjoy the way in, the bright moment, and the way out, although today's show ended on a beautifully explosive note with Kiki Dee's Incredible "I got the Music in Me" (which has been nicely covered in 1975 by Thelma Houston, among others, on a direct to disk release which every audiophile should own!).


As it's a four-hour musical trip, I won't be able to dive as deeply as I used to do. Still, I feel you have several sections which I can quickly analyse and give, for every one of them, the Wow moment:

  • first thing first, the global feeling is one of progression here, no breaks, no rhythmic shifts, every track blends into the next one with superb ease. Colleen always selects the show's introduction with great care and it shows here of course;

  • the first section of the show (meeting a Woman...) starts with Ganavya's Journey in Satchidananda and goes up to There's Music In The Air. Listen to Colleen's delicate mix between Billie Holiday and Minnie Ripperton, the first Wow moment for sure! Everything here is delicate, the music Breathes, Colleen kept both a close tonality and a "melancholic", "romantic" touch in the songs she selected (When The World Turns Blue wowed us all away too, and Colleen's ability to keep the rhythmic unity immaculate always creates a magic no one else can share to that level of Soulfulness...);

  • the second part of the show (Getting to Know the Lady...) starts with Esther Marrow's Ghetto and goes up to Angie Stone's Life Story (Jazz Hop Mix). It is a cooler musical moment, a groovy walk and it does wonders in letting you go off everything in your head!

  • the third part of the show (Engaging in the Dance...) starts with Kirsty MacColl's Walking Down Madison (6am Ambient Mix) and goes up to Millie Jackson's This is It. The rhythm here is "heavier", it has depth, it Moves you around (Asha Puthli's Right Down Here (Psychemagik Remix) or Grace Jones' My Jamaican Guy (Steven Stanley Mix) are perfect examples of that Voluntary Rhythm which could perfectly depict two bodies slowly meeting, embracing each other, dancing, feeding one another...). It's not a light part, it's not easy, it's demanding, it's Driven...

  • the fourth part of the show (Freeing to Dance...) starts with Angelique Kidjo's Born Under Punches, keeping the Driven rhythm we spoke about earlier, but slowly opening itself up, with Alfie Silas' You're A Star positively starting today' Party! The rhythm is still somewhat driven, but there's freedom in there! I love how Colleen reaches out to Eternity in these last tracks, they's Dance Bangers with that Spacy Light Touch that allows you to leave Earth (Angie Stone's Wish I Didn't Miss You (Pound Boys Remix) perfectly embodying that feeling)!


On the chat, we were all happy (Dancing_james wrote "Is it a four hours show today? Balearic Breakfast ruining my productivity yet again! 🤣), talking to one another despite a few issues with Mixcloud's mobile version. Ana was upset because she missed a part of the show, and I could not tag my fellow Balearicans when answering, laughs!

For the record, there's an interesting documentary about Sinead O'Connor's life to watch entitled "Nothing Compares".


As we were paying tribute to the great Angie Stone, our pal Bert François shared with us this great interview she gave back in 2024.


Lastly, and for your listening pleasure, other special Balearic Breakfast shows dedicated to International Women's Day, covered on the blog, include:



COLLEEN'S PRESENTATION


Ganavya with Alice Coltrane's Journey in Satchidananda along with Gana Nila from her album Daughter of a Temple released last year. Ganavya is a New York-born and Tamil Nadu-raised singer and multi-instrumentalist, and she performed at the acclaimed Salt performance back in December 2023 here in London. Daughter of a Temple features Ganavya's performances of devotional music, with guests like Esperanza Spalding and Chewbacca Hutchings, amongst 30 other musicians, and thank you to Kieran McCann in Glasgow for that request.

Happy International Women's Day, actually it is this Saturday, but today is our International Women's Day Celebration. I'm Colleen Cosmo Murphy hosting your weekly Baleric Breakfast, and I just love this show. It's one of my favorite shows of the year. There's so many great requests and I'm getting to most of them. In fact there are so many on this show that we'll go to about two o'clock this afternoon and thank you for your wonderful song suggestions. Also many of you commented on the Baleric Breakfast International Women's Day eye-catching artwork on my socials and I would like to thank my friend Lee Zee for putting that together.

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In today's show we will also pay tribute to the late Angie Stone who tragically passed away in a car accident a few days ago, and we will pay our respects through her music. Well we have a lot to get through, many, many, many tunes by both contemporary and classic women artists from all different corners of the world, so let's get on to our next request. It's from Rob Eggleshaw who dedicates this to his wife Helen who he says is also an incredible mother to their children. Rob requested some Billie Holiday and we're going to rewind 70 years to her album Lady Sings the Blues and it was released just after she released her autobiography of the same name, and in fact just a month before the album's release she performed a sold-out show at New York's Carnegie Hall, in which she interspersed readings from her book throughout the show. Here is Billie Holiday with I Thought About You.


What a lovely ending there. Letta Mbubulu with There's Music in the Air, the title track to her 1976 LP produced by Herb Alpert and requested by Christine DaSouza. The South African singer left her home country in the 1960s due to the political environment, and the crushing effects of apartheid and she relocated to New York where she teamed up with Harry Belafonte, David Axelrod and Cannonball Adderley and she eventually returned to South Africa after a 26-year self-imposed exile, and she's a founding member of the South African Artists United Organization. I need a big breath for this one!

The one before that was Merry Clayton with When the World Turns Blue requested by both Brian McMahon and I wonder could it be the title When the World Turns Blue? Is it turning blue? Maybe it is. The New Orleans-born soul and gospel singer embarked upon her recording career at the age of 14 in 1962 with a duet with Bobby Darin and then she performed with Ray Charles and then in 1969 she duetted with Mick Jagger on The Stones' Gimme Shelter which she also recorded herself on her debut solo album released the following year. She also starred as the original Acid Queen in the first London production of The Who's Tommy and she collaborated with so many artists too many to recount here, and she released seven solo albums including 2021's Beautiful Scars.


Ahead of that Minnie Riperton with her billboard number one hit Loving You from her 1974 album Perfect Angel and that really shows off her five octave range. Okay how many people were trying to sing that top note? I don't. I just I can't even do it. In any case she co-wrote this song with her husband the former chess record songwriter Richard Rudolph and he co-produced it with Stevie Wonder. After scoring her first number one, the former Rotary Connection singer was diagnosed with terminal breast cancer but she continued to record and performed, and she also raised awareness of breast cancer until her passing at the young age of 31. So, uh, Grazie a Stefano Fumanti from Roma for that request.

Okay another request, uh, from David Puzzi this time for the Virginia-born soul gospel singer Esther Marrow who was discovered at the age of 22 by Duke Ellington and later performed with many of the greats including Ella Fitzgerald, Thelonious Monk, and Bob Dylan. In 1965 she became active in the civil rights movement where she performed in Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s World Crusade and where she met her idol Mahalia Jackson. From her second album 1972's Sister Women this is Esther Mero with Ghetto.

Oh my gosh, I was feeling that and everyone over on the chat group was too! So funky. Cheers to David's daughter for that request. Etta James with Women Shake Your Booty from her 1976 album Etta is Better Than Evvah!, her final album during her tumultuous 16-year run at Chess Records. She produced it herself and it's a funky rewrite of a song she had recorded as Woman for Modern in 1955, and again for Chess in 1971, and her deep kind of earthy gritty voice really connected both with R&B and rock fans. She won 15 Grammy Awards before her passing in 2012.

Ahead of that Syleena Johnson with Women the title track from her album released in 2020. The Chicago singer has released nine studio albums including the latest Legacy released last year, and she's collaborated with Kanye West and that's her on his 2004 single All Fall Down and also KRS-ONE Twista and Crucial Conflict on the single Self-Destruction and thank you to Bert Francois and Brooklyn for that request.


Ahead of that Don't Mash Up Creation the debut 1981 single from Sharon Little and the original 7-inch goes for an eye-watering sum on Discogs. Luckily London label Common Ground International reissued it both digitally and on 12-inch a few years ago and you can find that on Bandcamp and thank you to Kieran McCann for that suggestion, very apropos given our current political social and environmental climate.

All right next up is a great request from Nadia Daniel for the late American singer Q Lazarus. She drove a taxi in New York City and one day, in the 1980s, actually 1985, she picked up filmmaker Jonathan Demme. She played him a demo of this next song and he featured it in two of his films Married to the Mob and later in The Silence of the Lambs and it became a cult hit. In 2019, filmmaker Eva Eredis met Lazarus after getting picked up in her car, and the two soon began working on a documentary about her life. It's called Goodbye Horses The Many Lives of Q Lazarus and I believe it's being released this week. Here is Q Lazarus with Goodbye Horses.

I absolutely love that live version of Nina Simone's cover of Bob Marley's No Woman No Cry recorded at Montreux Jazz Festival and that's by request from Susan Chan. Simone recorded so many live albums during her long career, and in fact I really like her live albums better than her studio albums as they give a better sense of her personality and also her piano playing. She studied to be a classical pianist, but her dreams were thwarted because of racism, and she was an outspoken civil rights activist and because of sexist biases was often misunderstood as so many are offended by angry women but her live shows show a whole other side to her multifaceted personality. She was really funny, she was really funny actually, and I highly recommend the Montreux Years which compiles some of her best performances. It's a double album and again her piano playing really is just, you know, it's so diverse she goes from blues, to classical, to jazz, to pop, she was just amazing.


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Ahead of that I have to say thank you to Laurence Green for that very apt request Fire on Babylon by the late Irish singer-songwriter and activist Sinead O'Connor. Now where could Babylon be right now? Anyways it's from her fourth album 1994's Universal Mother after her first two albums were mammoth successes. But life wasn't easy for her, she had a very challenging upbringing, and then she famously tore up a photo of Pope John Paul II during her performance on Saturday Night Live to protest against the child abuse committed by some Catholic priests. She was one of the first to highlight the scandal. She was an outspoken woman and she suffered greatly from it, and many of us still mourn her passing.

Ahead of that the award-winning Japanese harmonica player Risa Minami with her 1986 single Jamaican Blue on which she's just singing, sadly no harmonica on that one. She's truly known as one of the best harmonica players not only in Japan but also in Asia. She won the first prize at the 8th Asia Pacific Harmonica Festival and she also performed with the Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra. Minami's Jamaican Blue is included on the Time Capsule compilation Tokyo Rhythm Volume 2 1979 to 1986 and thank you to Victor Olteanu in Romania for that request.

Oh I just love K.D. Lang's voice my gosh and thank you to Thanos Katronis for putting the song on our radar and also sending it out to Rachel Blackman. We heard the club Xanax mix of Lifted by Love and the Canadian singer-songwriter recorded the original version for the 1993 film Even Cowgirls Get the Blues which was based on Tom Robbins' novel. Lang is both a Juno Award and Grammy Award winner and she's also an animal rights gay rights and Tibetan human rights activist. She announced her semi-retirement from music a few years ago but I hope she comes back.


Ahead of that the New York City band Luscious Jackson with their biggest single Naked Eye, haven't heard that in decades. It's from 1996, and it was requested by Karl Banitov in Canada. The all-woman band formed in New York City in 1991 and I loved them, and I got to interview them for my syndicated radio show at the time and between 1993 and 2000 Luscious Jackson released one EP, three full-length LPs and 10 singles on the Beastie Boys Grand Royale label. They then broke up but reunited in 2011 and released two more albums, including a children's album.

Okay, now for our tribute to Angie Stone who tragically passed to the next realm this past weekend. In the late 1970s and the age of 16 the South Carolina-born singer songwriter and actress formed the female hip-hop act The Sequence. She was obviously ahead of her time. They were managed by Sugar Hill Records, Sylvia Robinson and had a hit with Funk You Up and other singles but they broke up in 1985 when the sound of hip-hop was changing. Then Davis worked, I'm sorry Daniel Davis, my gosh, and then Stone worked with electro-funk act Mantronix before becoming the lead singer for the trio Vertical Hold. They released two albums in the mid-90s before Stone then teamed up with Lenny Kravitz's cousin to form the group D-Vox who released one album.

So she was a very very busy woman and she also became both a muse and a collaborator with D'Angelo and she co-wrote some of the songs on his first two studio albums Brown Sugar and Voodoo. A&R legend Clive Davis then signed her to Arista and in 1999 she released her debut solo album the wonderful Black Diamond named after her teenage daughter. It's a great album, a classic album and she followed it two years later with another fantastic record Mahogany Soul, and our next song is one of the singles requested by both Steve Wakeley and Siobhan Murphy. This is a duet with Calvin Richardson, Angie Stone with More Than A Woman.

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A request from Tom Torres in Vienna. This is the jazz-hop mix of Life Story by the late Angie Stone. The original was featured on one of the late singer, songwriter, producer's classic albums Black Diamond. Great song after great song after great song, in which she showcases not only her incredible vocal performances and co-productions but also her songwriting prowess. I mean don't forget she also penned songs for D'Angelo who is also a former lover and Mary J. Blige as well.

Ahead of that, well you know I can never get enough of Grace by special request from Alex Elliott. We heard Grace Jones My Jamaican Guy a special mix by Stephen Stanley and every time I play Grace Jones I have to mention her autobiography I'll Never Write My Memoirs. If you are a fan, or even if you just like some of her music, it's really a must read because she's such a big personality and she's often so outrageous that I don't think she's really been given the credit she's really due for her own artistry. And actually this is the plight of many women artists especially those who recorded in times past. Anyways, give it a read and then you can thank me, and more importantly you can thank Grace Jones for being Grace.

Ahead of that a great request from Daniel Dewey Scott for a new single by Los Angeles artist Michi who released her debut album Dirty Talk last week on Stone's Throw. The album was conceived when Michi moved from Los Angeles to a small seaside town, following a harrowing breakup, and I'm making a promise to myself right now to listen to the entire album once I finish this show, because that song has had me grooving every time I've heard it. Such a slick slick slick groove!

Ahead of that another new single, this time from British singer-songwriter Victoria Port. She's previously released two albums as half of electronic soul outfit Anoushka on Brownswood and True Thoughts, and with a third album from the duo scheduled for release in 2025 on BBE. Now Victoria is finally making the move to showcase her solo music in her own way, and she released the single we heard Cigarette on First Word Records last November. And there's more coming, a project that's largely inspired by the legacy of her Dominican mother and the tales of all the powerful women she has known and is yet to know, and also encompassing their truth, and also her journey as a mother. So I look forward to hearing more, and thank you to Matt Raystrick for that request.

Ahead of that, Angie Stone with No More Rain in This Cloud. Many people requested this song and again that one is from Black Diamond. I want to send that one out to Susan Chan, Sue Forrest, Bert Francois, Angelita Biondolio and Greca Mack and we'll have one more song in tribute to the late Angie Stone later in the show and rest in paradise Angie Stone.


I'm Colleen Cosmo Murphy and you're listening to the Balearic Breakfast International Women's Day Special. We're going probably for a couple more hours actually over on my MixCloud Live, and thanks to all joining me live on the chat. Now this is a request from Gareth Bratman for Kirstie McColl, daughter of the folk singer Ewan McColl. Actually it seems the entire family is musical. After a brief stint in 1978 with her first band, The Drug Addix, she went solo and she scored a hit with the single, There's a Guy Works Down the Chip Shop, Swears He's Elvis. She released six studio albums, the last being Tropical Brainstorm, released posthumously as she tragically passed after getting hit by a speedboat while swimming with her children in Mexico. I just remember that whole incident. It was just absolutely shocking. It's still shocking actually. This is a song she co-wrote with Johnny Marr, Kirstie McCall with a 6am ambient mix of Walking Down Madison.


The 2002 Morgan Geist remix of Magpie by Abraham. A request from Mark Sanford who said, "If I were an internationally famous and industry-renowned DJ and decided to put together a compilation album, that would be the opening track for International Women's Day, the very lovely Rachel Cumming and the band Abraham with Lee Jones". This being the opening track on the album Blue for the Most.

  A request from Ana Sancho in Barcelona for Reina Tropical, a project led by guitarist, singer, songwriter and producer Fabiola Reina. The band formed when Reina had been immersed in full-time work founding and building She Shreds, the world's first magazine dedicated to women and non-binary guitarists, and was itching for a creative release to return to her musical roots. By January 2018, the band's self-titled EP Reina Tropical dropped and last year they released their first album Malegria and we heard Conocerla.

Ahead of that, we heard the Psych-magic remix of Asha Putli's cover of J.J. Cale's Right Down Here, released on Naya Beat Records as requested by Uncool Jag. The Indian-American singer, songwriter and producer Asha Putli has such an interesting story, which I know I've recounted many times before. She was a British Airways flight attendant who got a dance scholarship from Martha Graham and then, while in New York City, was discovered by Columbia Records A&R legend John Hammond and she then released 10 studio albums and has recently enjoyed a comeback. I got to see her perform at We Out Here last year and she was fantastic and really funny, telling all these stories and anecdotes in between songs. Absolutely loved it.


Okay, you're listening to Colleen Cosmo Murphy on Balearic Breakfast, going for another hour and a half or so for the International Women's Day Special, and this next one is a request by Gemma Bagnell for the punk-funk icon Bette Davis. She says, "I love Bette Davis. They tried to ban her from the stage saying she was too sexual. A truly underestimated singer and songwriter who survived a marriage with Miles Davis who also tried to suppress her creativity. In fact, just a little anecdote on that. He did name Bitches Brew after her and her kind of group of women friends at the time. Now, if you haven't watched her 2017 biopic film, They Said I Was Different, please give it a watch. I would like to request this amazing 1979 track, She's a Woman by the survivor Bette Davis and this is from her fourth studio album". Here is Bette Davis, She's a Woman.

A great cover of Kenny Loggins and Michael McDonald's This is it by Millie Jackson with a great introduction as always. The Georgia-born artist is known for her long spoken word sections which are sometimes funny and sexually explicit. She's a bold artist and I admire her for that. She's released nearly 30 studio and live albums and according to the website whoseample.com, samples of her songs have appeared and 189 samples, 51 covers, and six remixes. So, I hope she got the royalties for that. In any case, it was requested by Rina Lady Beige who said "this is it because we need some of this power and energy in our lives right now. This one is for everyone who will be celebrating International Women's Day with us at Suffragette City in Manchester this Saturday".


Ahead of that, a request from Dani Broderick for the English singer-songwriter Beth Orton. The song Stolen Car from her third album, Central Reservation, released on Heavenly Recordings in 1999 and it features collabs with the late Terry Collier, Dr. Robert, Ben Harper, and Ben Watt from Everything But the Girl. And Orton has released eight albums since her 1993 debut and she's also an actor having appeared in two films, Southlander and Light Years.

Ahead of that, Ruth Radelet who is best known for fronting the influential group Chromatix, but she solidified her solo career with her debut EP, The Other Side, released a couple of years ago. Since then, she has been featured on tracks by Soft Kill and Krakow Loves Adana and has released solo singles including Shoot Me Down and Stranger, which was released last year. And thank you to Steve Clark for that suggestion. Stranger, the Turbo Tito remix by Ruth Radelet.


Ahead of that, the 1978 single from Taboo Records by the Washington singer-songwriter, Ms. Sharon Ridley. She worked with Van McCoy early on in her career, collaborating on her debut 1971 album, Stay A while with me. It didn't do that much, but when McCoy's career exploded with the song, The Hustle, we had Ms. Sharon Ridley's albums reissued. And in 1978, she released the album, Full Moon, which she arranged and played keys on and which featured the single we heard, Changing, requested by Reed Franklin Bolton.


Okay, next up is another request from Reed Franklin Bolton. You know, some of you got two requests this week because they were so good. This one is for Angelique Kidjo, the Grammy Award-winning Beninese French singer, songwriter, actress, activist, and Polar Music Prize Laureate.


Due to political conflicts, Kidjo left Benin and moved to Paris in the 1980s. And she initially planned to become a human rights lawyer, but ended up studying music at the CIM, a jazz school in Paris. And that's where she met musician and producer, Jean Hebrail, with whom she has composed most of her music and whom she married in 1987. In 1985, she was the front singer of Jasper Von Toff's band, Peely Peely. And in 1991, she signed to Island Records as a solo artist. And that's when she landed on my radar. I used to play songs like Batonga and Wei Wei. In 2018, she covered the Talking Heads album, Remain in Light, in its entirety. And this is her version of Born Under Punches with guest guitar licks from Adrian Belew.

Thank you to Poppy Fields for this request. Human after all from the latest Crazy P album, Any Signs of Love. Released two months after lead singer Danielle Moore unexpectedly and shockingly took her own life. I actually still can't believe it. She was an amazing woman, talented singer, songwriter, really compassionate, and very, very down to earth and very, very, very funny. I don't think many of us in the community still aren't, you know, haven't come to terms with her passing. It was really strange because I had just finished a remix for Crazy P, and that should be coming out this year in 2025. And I'm also playing after them this Saturday at La Discotheque in Manchester's Albert Hall. But her spirit lives on, her music lives on, and she is with us in spirit. So, you know, rest in paradise, Danielle Moore.

Ahead of that, the Pennsylvania singer Lenore O'Malley with First Be A Woman, love the lyrics on that one, as requested by David Stoddard. It's the title track of her first album released in 1979 at the height of disco, and then she followed up with Lenore a couple of years later. And that's all we have from the late O'Malley.

Ahead of that, Brooklyn's Stephanie Mills was in the house. We heard the A-side of the 1979 single, which I always play the B-side of. I've always played What You Gonna Do With My Lovin' on the flip, and that's the song I usually play. So thank you to Christine DaSouza for making me flip it over and play Put Your Body In It. Both songs were produced by James Mtume and Reggie Lucas. Mills first rose to fame playing the part of Dorothy in the Broadway run of The Wiz. And during the 1980s, she had five number one hits. She was always on the radio. And last year, she returned to Broadway after 40 years as Mrs. Hermes in the musical Hadestown.


And before that, we had You're a Star by American singer Alfie Silas, who had a long career as a session musician. She was a backing singer for Martha Reeves and Gina Vanelli, and she also had five hits as a solo artist in the 1980s. You're a Star is from her debut 1982 album, Alfie, and thank you to Bert Francois for that suggestion.

I wanted to let you know about another event I have going on for Classic Album Sundays. On Wednesday, a week from tomorrow, March 12th, I will be joined by the Mexican DJ Coco Maria. You know, I'm an American who is friends with our Mexican neighbors. And I'm really excited because she's a really great, great, great DJ. She plays music that I don't really normally play, and I don't really have a lot of knowledge of. She has a lot of, she plays Brazilian, Latin, Caribbean, and she's a real digger. She plays on vinyl. We're going to feature her compilation Club Coco, which she also has her own composition, her first composition as an artist. If you want to come along, the tickets are free. Again, that's Wednesday, the 12th of March over the KEF Music Gallery in Central London. And you can head over to the Classic Album Sundays website to book your free tickets.

Okay, Mamacita's Tu Amor is a Chilean cover of Jamie Principle and Frankie Knuckles' Your Love. It's by DJ Mamacita and producer Persona RS, and it's getting its first vinyl release next week on Mr. Bongo. It was originally released in 2012 and started making waves after The Idjut Boys were playing it, and then Mr. Bongo picked up on it. While playing it in Barcelona, Luke Yuna dropped the track and it instantly clicked. And here it's his re-edit along with Luke Solomon. It's the double take of Luke Asol re-edit as requested by Jen Ferguson.

The Pound Boys' Stone Face Bootleg remix of Angie Stone's Wish I Didn't Miss You. Sending that one out to Thanos Kotronis, Artur in Paris, Steve Wakely, David Stoddard, and Emily Bucknell. Came out in 2001. And that's, my husband says he remembers me playing that all the time in the early days of our courtship. Rest in paradise, Angie Stone, and thank you for the music.

Ahead of that, the 2022 single by Miss Patty & Saison on Seamus Hodge's big love label called Spark It Up. And they first appeared on the label with a remix of Mike Dunn's It's A Groove Thing, and the London based Deep Duo are releasing their original feel-good house track. It's called Spark It Up and has vocals by Miss Patty. And thank you to Georgina Cousin for that one.

Ahead of that, Ultra Nate Found a cure, sending that out to Barry Zare in Washington, D.C. I love that 1998 single from the Maryland-born singer, songwriter, and producer. She's one of the superstars of house music, and virtually all of her singles have released the top 10 on the U.S. dance charts, Free, If you could read my mind, Automatic. But I love Found a Cure. I haven't played that in so long. I love the mood to swing rock guitar production.

Then we had Goldfrapp before that, Ride a White Horse, the FKEK, that's Francois Kevorkian, or Francois K, and Eric Cupper vocal version of remix of their 2006 single from their album Supernature, which I love. In fact, I love all the Goldfrapp albums. I love Alice in Goldfrapp's voice. They've done so many different sounds, from electro to pop to more pastoral sounds that you can find on the seventh tree. And thanks to Gareth Bratman for that request.

Okay, so wow, that was a little bit of a mega mix. It's funny, I was listening to a mix I did 30 years ago when I was hosting Soul School on WNYU on 89.1 FM. And it was really funny. This guy, DJ M Traxxx with three Xs, kind of, he has all these old cassettes of loads of different radio shows and posting up mixes of mine. My voice is literally like an octave higher, and I had such a New York accent. Cosmo. Anyways, I think I reposted it on my SoundCloud if you want to have a listen. But it kind of has that energy of that last set there.


And as I mentioned, I'm in Manchester this Saturday for La Discotheque. On Sunday, it's the London Loft Party at the London Irish Centre. If you want to come along, you can message me to get on the mailing list. The following week, I'm heading over to Southport Weekender. And then I'm heading to Japan for a couple of weeks. And then to Ireland, to Cork, the first time in Cork. And that's where the Murphys are from. I've never been there. And to Dublin in mid-April. So I'll announce those dates a bit closer. And you can always find out more on my socials.


Now there won't be a request line this week. I'll be catching up on your requests as I have a busy DJing weekend. But I also have an exclusive mix from Music for Dreams, Kenneth Beyer. And we also have a chat about his new album with Finlay Brown, Silence With Singing. Well, this has been another joyous International Women's Day tribute here on Balearic Breakfast. Thank you all for your requests. And I love this last request. It's from Artur in Paris, who spends so much time working on a great Balearic Breakfast blog. Thank you, Artur, for all of your hard work. And this song is just, you know, I forgot how much I love it. And I forgot how much I love her voice. It's by Kiki Dee, who's won a local talent contest at the age of 10 in Yorkshire. At 16, she had her first paid job in show business, singing with a band in Leeds. And a record scout liked her and signed her to Fontana. She sang backing vocals for Dusty Springfield. And then she had her debut album, I'm Kiki Dee, in 1968. And her biggest hit came in 1976 as a duet with Elton John, Don't Go Breaking My Heart. And the two of them toured America together. In fact, my aunt went to go see them. I remember it because I remember sitting in her bedroom afterwards, like just so starstruck, and she had just given me Elton John's greatest hits for my birthday as well. Anyways, this is such a joyous song. I want you to all sing it out loud at your office desk, in your home, or wherever you're listening to this. And thank you so much for listening. It's Kiki Dee, I got the music, and thanks for listening.

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