- Born
- Birth nameYasmin Marie Evans
- Yazz was born on May 19, 1960 in Shepherd's Bush, London, England, UK. She is an actress and composer, known for Coldcut Feat. Yazz and the Plastic Population (1988), Yazz: Stand Up for Your Love Rights (European Version) (1988) and Yazz: Stand Up for Your Love Rights (US Version) (1988).
- SpouseJazz Summers (divorced, 1 child)
- A peroxide pixie cut (which she sported at the height of her fame)
- Her biggest selling single was a cover of Otis Clay's 1980 song "The Only Way Is Up", which in the summer of 1988 spent 5 weeks at the top of the UK singles chart and ultimately became the 2nd biggest selling UK single of the year.
- Born to a Jamaican father and a British mother.
- Releases "Running Back To You", her first studio album in ten years.
- Is not to be confused with the American rap artist Bryshere Y. Gray, who is sometimes known as "Yazz" or "Yazz The Greatest".
- There was this huge picture of me in the press. They had overdeveloped one photo and underdeveloped the other so I looked really dark skinned and really white. They said 'Yazz goes Daz'. 'Yazz is using chemicals to whiten her skin, it's another Michael Jackson'. That was wounding. From there I didn't trust anyone in the media. There were constant lies to sell the paper.
- [on her pop success] When you imagine things in your life that you hope to achieve, you always see it in a controlled situation, that you're in control. It certainly wasn't like that. I had no control whatsoever, I was just this massive product. That was devastating when you realise you're a puppet.
- My manager and my publisher were my husband [Jazz Summers]. In effect, my husband owned me and when we left each other, that's when I realised I'd been completely taken. I didn't have a lot of money at all. I was in a very dark place, thinking about my life and its true value.
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