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Dance-pop is a subgenre of pop music that evolved from disco, circa the early 1980s, that combines dance beats with a pop song structure. Because there is such an emphasis on fully-formed songs in dance-pop, it is often viewed as a separate classification unto itself apart from pure dance music.[1] Dance-pop is also closely related to the teen pop[2] and Eurodance movements in the mid- 80s and late 1990s, the rise of boy bands and girl groups, and the reintroduction of the vocoder and similar such innovations.

Like its disco forebear, dance-pop is often viewed by musical historians as a producer's medium, as a great many musicians and songwriting teams arose from the genre. Musicians like André Cymone and Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis (all of whom had been musically connected with Prince) and Patrick Leonard (who'd been a member of the band Trillion), as well as DJs like Jellybean Benitez and Shep Pettibone, became stars in their own right due to the sleek productions they lavished on artists like Madonna, Jody Watley and Janet Jackson. Another dance-pop production team of note is Stock Aitken and Waterman, who sculpted polished production for the likes of Kylie Minogue, Rick Astley and Bananarama. Indeed, Nile Rodgers and Bernard Edwards, (both of whom had been stars in the disco era as part of the group Chic), were able to flourish as producers of material for newer artists in dance-pops rise. Another dance-pop Singer Cher has the biggest selling dance-pop song ever having sold over 10 million copies worldwide for her Dance-pop song "Believe", and "Believe" is also the third most successful song released by a solo female musician worldwide.

Of course, a select few artists were able to arise in dance-pop to refute the notion of the subgenre as strictly producer-driven. Artists like Michael Jackson, as well as the aforementioned Madonna, Kylie Minogue, and (for a time) Janet Jackson were able to achieve superstardom, while Jody Watley has since went on to international acclaim and continued to garner critical praise.

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Disco is a genre of dance-oriented pop music that was popularized in dance clubs (discothèques) in the mid-1970s. Disco songs usually have soaring, often reverberated vocals over a steady four-on-the-floor beat, an eighth note (quaver) or sixteenth note (semi-quaver) hi-hat pattern
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Teen pop is a genre of music which is marketed, but not exclusively, to preteens and teenagers. Producers Max Martin, Kara DioGuardi and Jay Orpin are pioneer songwriters of this genre of music.
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Eurodance is a synonymous term for European synthesizer-driven dance music which became popularized worldwide since the early 1990s. The term has come to define the European dance music genre of today.
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A boy band is a type of pop group featuring three or more young male singers. It is disputed whether or not music groups that have more than five members should be considered boy bands, such as Super Junior who has 13 members.
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girl group is a musical group featuring several young female singers who generally harmonize together. The term "girl group" is generally not applied to girl bands or all-women, in which women play instruments as well as sing.
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A vocoder or voder (a portmanteau of voice and encoder) is a speech analyzer and synthesizer. It was originally developed as a speech coder for telecommunications applications in the 1930s, the idea being to code speech for transmission.
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André Cymone (born Andre Simon Anderson) is a bassist, songwriter and record producer. His stage name comes from a variation of his middle name, Simon.

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Cymone was the youngest of six children.
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James "Jimmy Jam" Harris III (born on June 6, 1959 in Minneapolis, Minnesota) and Terry Lewis (born November 24, 1956 in Omaha, Nebraska) are an American R&B and pop songwriting and record production team.
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Patrick Leonard
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Occupation: Songwriter, keyboardist, music producer Patrick Raymond Leonard (born 1955 or 1956) is an American songwriter, keyboardist and music producer, known for his longtime collaboration with Madonna on many different recordings.
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John "Jellybean" Benitez (born November 7, 1957) is a drummer, guitarist, songwriter, DJ, remixer and music producer of Puerto Rican descent. Benitez is known for producing the first hits of and for his relationship with Madonna.
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Robert E. Pettibone, Jr. (born 15 July 1959, better known as Shep Pettibone) is a record producer, remixer, songwriter and club DJ, one of the most prolific of the 1980s.
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Jody Watley (born January 30, 1959 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American singer, songwriter, record producer, dancer, and label owner.

To date, Watley has sold over twenty million albums and singles worldwide.
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Janet Damita Jo Jackson (born May 16, 1966) is an American singer, actress, songwriter, record producer, dancer, activist, and pop icon.

Jackson is ranked as the ninth most successful act in the history of rock and roll.
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Stock, Aitken & Waterman, sometimes known as SAW, are a British songwriting and record producing trio who had great success during the mid-late 1980s and early 1990s with many of their productions.
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Kylie Ann Minogue (IPA: /'kaɪ.li mɪ'noʊg/[1]) (born May 28, 1968) is a Grammy award-winning Australian pop singer-songwriter and occasional actress.
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Richard Paul Astley (born February 6, 1966) is an English dance singer, songwriter and musician. He was born in Newton-le-Willows, St Helens, Lancashire, England. Astley currently resides in Richmond in Surrey with his Danish girlfriend, Lene Bausager, and their daughter, Emilie.
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Bananarama are a British girl group who have had success with pop and new wave songs since 1982. The group have had ten Top 10 singles in the UK singles chart to date, as well as three U.S. Top 10 hits, one of which hit number one.
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Nile Gregory Rodgers (born September 19 1952 in New York City) is a prolific and influential musician, composer, arranger, guitarist and music producer, and co-founding member of the seminal multi-platinum hit R&B band Chic
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Bernard Edwards (October 31 1952 – April 18 1996) was born in Greenville, North Carolina, was a bass player and record producer, both as a member of Chic and on his own. He died of pneumonia while touring in Japan.
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Cherilyn Sarkisian LaPierre (better known as Cher) (born on May 20, 1946)[1] is an American singer, actress, songwriter, author and entertainer. Among her many accomplishments in music, television and film, she has won an Academy Award, a Grammy Award, an Emmy
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Michael Joseph Jackson (born August 29, 1958), commonly known as MJ[1] as well as "The King of Pop",[2] is an American musician, entertainer, and pop icon whose successful career and controversial personal life have been a part of pop culture for
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Paula Julie Abdul (born June 19, 1962) is an American multi-platinum selling Grammy Award-winning singer, dancer, television personality, jewelry designer, and Emmy Award-winning choreographer.
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C+C Music Factory was a dance music production group (lead by Robert Clivillés and David Cole) distinguished for having seven #1 Dance/Club Play hits in the early to mid 1990s, as well as several pop crossover hits, one of which "Gonna Make You Sweat (Everybody Dance
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Taylor Dayne (born Leslie Wunderman, March 7 1962, in Baldwin, Nassau County, New York) is an American pop vocalist, dance artist and actress.
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