I Don't Want To Lose Your Love (4:28)

B Angie B known by many as The Queen Of Dance, was born Angela R. Boyd in 1968 in the small rural town of Morton, Mississippi. She grew up singing and honing her vocals in a local church. She graduated from Morton High School in the Scott County School District in 1984. It wasn’t until a few years later that she and her best friend made a decision to move to out west to pursue a singing/music career together. The friend ended up getting pregnant and Boyd relocating to California alone.

It was not long after this relocation, that Boyd was discovered by producer (& future husband) James Earley and brought to Hammer’s attention that Angie was a vocalist. Hammer is also the one credited with giving Boyd her stage name B Angie B when one day Hammer spoke the words “just be Angie”. She sang on Pump It Up (Here’s the News) on his Let’s Get It Started album (the version re-released on Capitol Records in 1988) and she became a back up singer during his tours.

Her next opportunity came in 1989 with Hammer’s all female rap group Oaktown’s 3.5.7. She added her vocals to the rap song “Juicy Gotcha Krazy” and appeared in the video along with Oaktown’s 3.5.7. She continued to tour and produce background vocals for Hammer during his successful Please Hammer Don’t Hurt ‘Em album in 1990.

In 1991, Hammer signed B Angie B to his Capitol-distributed Bust It imprint.