Chart entered : 27 April 1991
Chart peak : 65 ( 11 on re-release later in the year )
Number of hits : 11
We move from Iceland to Zambia where Rozalla Miller was born in 1964. She started singing from an early age, appearing on a children's TV show. She relocated to Zimbabwe in her teens. She made a number of records there including a single "Party Nights" in 1985 and an album "Spirit of Africa" in 1988 which have never been released here .In 1988 she moved to London and teamed up with the production duo Band of Gypsies.
Her first single with them was "Born To Luv Ya" in 1990 on the Puls-8 label. Written by the duo it rests on a not unattractive Orbital-like keyboard line with Rozalla's soaring vocal over the top. The lyrics are fluff and it hammers its one hook to death but the sax break is nice and it's not a bad commercial house track.
"Faith ( In The Power of Love ) " was the follow-up single. It has a more generic piano-based sound with a similar one line hook. The verses have a bit more substance ,telling a Rocky-like story of transcending humble beginnings but they also reveal that Rozalla's voice, like Cher's, is something of a blunt instrument with clumsy phrasing when she isn't letting rip. Again there's a well-deployed sax which makes the record more attractive. The song was re-released after her ( very similar ) breakthrough hit "Everybody's Free" and reached number 11.
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