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Problem:Joni Sledge 
  
 Facebook Twitter Pinterest Sister Sledge’s 1979 album We Are Family 
  
 We’d had a couple of hits in 1974, 1975, we’d been to Germany and made an album with the disco act Silver Convention, but by the time we met Nile Rodgers and Bernard Edwards of Chic, the four of us had been in the music business for eight years and we were frustrated. We were saying: “Well, maybe we should go to college and just become lawyers or something other than music, because it really is tough.” My sister Kim actually started law school. 
  
 We’d been working in Atlantic City, four in the afternoon to four in the morning, six sets, opening for everybody that came through – the Emotions, Bill Withers, the Pointer Sisters – and they were all really encouraging: “You girls are really good, you should stick with it.” That kind of solidified our desire to continue, but our record company, Atlantic, didn’t quite know what to do with us. One time, the president came to us with this brilliant idea: he was going to make paper dolls. He cut them out in front of us. We were all looking at each other, like … nah. So our expectations when we met Chic were not, “Wow, we’re going to work with them and become big stars”; it was more, “We’ll see what happens.” We’d heard the album they’d produced for Norma Jean and thought it was nice, so we figured making our own album would be interesting. 
  
 It was fun, but challenging. Bernard and my sister Debbie were both musical geniuses when it comes to harmony, chording, things like that, and in the studio, they were like, “Grrr!” Nile was the mediator. One day in the studio they both walked out, and Nile was like, “All right, OK, everybody take a break. I’m going to talk to Debbie.” They would bicker and he was the vicar! 
  
  
  
 Recording the track We Are Family was like a one-take party – we were just dancing and playing around and hanging out in the studio when we did it – but Lost in Music was totally different. It was like being in a trance. Even when we play it today, it’s different every time we do it. We have brilliant musicians, and we just say, “Take us somewhere. Go deep,” and we let the audience know, “You know what? Come along if you want to, but they’re really going to take us somewhere!” And they do. 
  
  
  
 Facebook Twitter Pinterest Sister Sledge performing c.1979. Photograph: Denis O'Regan/Corbis 
  
 Debbie Sledge 
  
 Chic had some awesome tracks in mind for us, but they were developing the songs as they went, and actually writing lyrics in the studio. They said they had a concept, but they didn’t necessarily tell us what the concept was, which was kind of frustrating. We were used to coming in to the studio prepared. Our grandmother had trained us and she was a classical artist, an opera singer, so we were very disciplined. And the way Chic worked was the opposite. 
  
 They wouldn’t show us what they were doing because they said they wanted spontaneity. Everything with them was: “We want the spontaneity.” 
  
 “But we want to learn the part.” 
  
 “But we want the spontaneity.” 
  
 “But we want to know what we’re singing.” 
  
 And then they’d sing the melody and they weren’t really people who could sing, so it was fun, but frustrating. 
  
 When they brought us Lost in Music, I in my ignorance even said to Nile: “Well, I think it’s too repetitive.” He just looked at Bernard. But Joni sang that song and the lyrics were so reflective of her personality. She’s like that to this day: it’s all of our passion, but she’s really focused, she’s all up in that music. 
  
 The words are about determination, not giving up, so they kind of fitted where we were at the time. if you have something that you really, really desire, and you’re good at it, even if you’re raw, it’s a good thing to do. And don’t let anybody deter you from it. ||||| File- This Aug. 14, 2006 file photo shows Joni Sledge, one of the original members of "Sister Sledge," second from left, posing with Rodney Jerkins, second from right, her niece Camille Sledge, left,... (Associated Press) 
  
 File- This Aug. 14, 2006 file photo shows Joni Sledge, one of the original members of "Sister Sledge," second from left, posing with Rodney Jerkins, second from right, her niece Camille Sledge, left, and her cousin Amber Sledge at the "We Are Family 2006 - All-Star Katrina Benefit CD and Documentary... (Associated Press) 
  
 File- This Aug. 14, 2006 file photo shows Joni Sledge, one of the original members of "Sister Sledge," second from left, posing with Rodney Jerkins, second from right, her niece Camille Sledge, left, and her cousin Amber Sledge at the "We Are Family 2006 - All-Star Katrina Benefit CD and Documentary... (Associated Press) File- This Aug. 14, 2006 file photo shows Joni Sledge, one of the original members of "Sister Sledge," second from left, posing with Rodney Jerkins, second from right, her niece Camille Sledge, left,... (Associated Press) 
  
 NEW YORK (AP) — Joni Sledge, who with her sisters recorded the enduring dance anthem "We Are Family," has died, the band's representative said Saturday. 
  
 She was 60. 
  
 Sledge was found dead in her home by a friend in Phoenix, Arizona, on Friday, the band's publicist, Biff Warren, said. A cause of death has not been determined. He said she had not been ill. 
  
 "On yesterday, numbness fell upon our family. We welcome your prayers as we weep the loss of our sister, mother, aunt, niece and cousin," read a family statement. 
  
 Sledge and her sisters Debbie, Kim and Kathy formed the Sister Sledge in 1971 in Philadelphia, their hometown, but struggled for years before success came. 
  
 "The four of us had been in the music business for eight years and we were frustrated. We were saying: 'Well, maybe we should go to college and just become lawyers or something other than music, because it really is tough,'" Joni told The Guardian in an interview last year. 
  
 But then they met Bernard Edwards and Nile Rodgers of the hit group Chic, and their breakout soon came. The pair wrote and produced their album "We Are Family," and soon the women had their first major hit with disco jam "The Greatest Dancer," which became a top 10 hit in May 1979. (It would sampled years later for Will Smith's hit "Getting Jiggy Wit It.") 
  
 But their biggest hit would come a month later with the title track, an infectious dance anthem that celebrated their familial connection with the refrain, "We are family, I got all my sisters with me." While it celebrated their sisterhood, the 1979 hit so also became an anthem for female empowerment and unity. It would become their signature hit, and was nominated for a Grammy. Both the song and album sold more than one million copies. 
  
 The women also had a hit with a cover of the Mary Wells song "My Guy" in 1982, but would never duplicate the success they had in the 1970s. Still, Sister Sledge continued; while sister Kathy left the group for a solo career, the trio of sisters continued to perform and record, including a performance for Pope Francis in 2015. 
  
 Warren said they last performed together in concert in October. 
  
 Joni Sledge is survived by an adult son, her sisters and other relatives. 
  
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 http://www.sistersledge.com |||||
Solution:
Joni Sledge, who with her sisters recorded the enduring dance anthem "We Are Family," has died, the band's representative said Saturday. She was 60. Sledge was found dead in her home by a friend in Phoenix on Friday, the band's publicist, Biff Warren, says. A cause of death has not been determined, reports the AP. He says she had not been ill. "Yesterday, numbness fell upon our family. We welcome your prayers as we weep the loss of our sister, mother, aunt, niece, and cousin," reads a family statement. Sledge and her sisters Debbie, Kim, and Kathy formed Sister Sledge in 1971, but after 8 years with little success, "we were frustrated. We were saying: 'Well, maybe we should go to college and just become lawyers,'" Joni told the Guardian in 2016, noting Kim actually enrolled in law school. But then they met Bernard Edwards and Nile Rodgers of the hit group Chic, and their breakout soon came. The pair wrote and produced their album We Are Family, and soon the women had their first major hit with disco jam "The Greatest Dancer," which became a top 10 hit in May 1979. (It would sampled years later for Will Smith's hit "Getting Jiggy Wit It.") But their biggest hit would come a month later with the title track, an infectious, Grammy-nominated dance anthem that celebrated their familial connection with the refrain, "We are family, I got all my sisters with me." Both the song and album sold more than one million copies. While sister Kathy left the group for a solo career, the trio of sisters last performed together in concert in October, says Warren. Joni Sledge is survived by an adult son, her sisters, and other relatives.