Dawn Robinson

Dawn Sherrese Robinson is an American singersongwriter, and actress. Robinson is best known as a founding member of the RampBPop vocal group En Vogue, one of the worlds bestselling girl groups of all time. Robinson was then asked to join Lucy Pearl and released their selftitled debut album in 2000, which went platinum worldwide and produced the top charting singles Dance Tonight and Dont Mess with My Man.

Robinson was born in New London, Connecticut where she attended New London High School. Her mother had her in the church singing in the choir at AME Zion Church. From there Dawn was in the studio traveling from New London to Massachusetts, putting her beautiful voice on tape. At a Stephanie Mills concert her mother was able to get the band to listen to a tape of Dawns. They advised Dawns mother to send her to California. In 1980 Dawn was sent to live with her cousin to see if California was a good fit for the family. A year later Dawns mother, sister, cousin and herself packed up and drove cross country to Oakland, California. Dawn first attended Oakland High School the family finally settled in San Leandro, California where Dawn attended San Leandro High School.

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