Judy Cheeks (born in Miami, FL, on 13 February 1954; died November 2025) was an American singer. In the 1970s and 1980s, she recorded as a soul and R&B singer, before releasing more dance-oriented music in the 1990s. Cheeks performed with Ike & Tina Turner as an Ikette. She also worked as a backing vocalist for various artists such as Stevie Wonder, Donna Summer, Amanda Lear, and David Knopfler. The daughter of gospel singer and preacher Rev. Julius Cheeks, in 1978 she hit #10 on the Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart with "Mellow Lovin'," and then had a career resurgence in the nineties, when she re-emerged with a string of dance chart hits, including two #1s in 1995: "Respect" and "As Long As You're Good To Me" as well as "Reach", which appeared on the "Summer Hitmix '94" CD released by ZYX records. 1978 album "Mellow Lovin'" was produced by Anthony Monn (of gay icon Amanda Lear fame) in Giorgio Moroder's legendary Musicland Studios in Munich. Cheeks also appears as a backing vocalist on Lear's 1979 album Never Trust A Pretty Face and on Boney M.'s Ten Thousand Lightyears and Kalimba de Luna - 16 Happy Songs as a member of vocal trio La Mama. In 2020, she released the single "Within" followed by "Same Pain" in 2021 both in a more acoustic country style. In 2023 Judy Cheeks started collaborating with POSE and released "Let Your Soul Dance" and "Hands Up In The Air". In 2024 the team released "Be Happy". Discography Albums "Judy Cheeks" (1973) "Mellow Lovin'" (1978) "No Outsiders" (1988) "Respect" (1996) Singles "Mellow Lovin'" (1978) US #65, US Dance #10 "I Still Love You" (1988) UK #98 "So In Love (The Real Deal)" (1993) UK #27 "Reach" (1994) UK #17 "Take Time/Respect" (1995) UK #23, US Dance #1 ("Respect") "You're The Story Of My Life/As Long As You're Good To Me" (1995) UK #30, US Dance #1 ("As Long As You're Good To Me") "Reach" (remix) (1996) UK #22 <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Judy+Cheeks">Read more on Last.fm</a>. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.