Taana Gardner

Vocalist Taana Gardner was one of the leading lights of West End Records, a New York label that released some of the finest and most influential club music of the disco and post-disco eras. A vivacious soprano in the realm of Deniece Williams and Stephanie Mills, but with gum-snapping swagger and an air of flirtatious sensuality all her own, Gardner and producer Kenton Nix broke through in 1979 with "Work That Body" and the subsequent "When You Touch Me," two songs contained on her self-titled and only album. Gardner and Nix outdid themselves two years later with the loping "H...