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Chart entered : 2 February 1991
Chart peak : 8
Number of hits : 14
Dina was born in Newmarket in 1968. She was signed to the London dance label Streetwave as a teenager and was on a couple of singles by the studio group Masquerade including the 1986 number 54 hit "One Nation", an electronic re-working of Funkadelic's One Nation Under A Groove. You'd be hard pressed to pick out her contribution on that one.
She left Streetwave after less than a year. In 1989 she signed a contract with Jive and released a couple of singles. "People All Around The World " , an attractive Lisa Stansfield-esque dance pop number and a so-so cover of "Walk On By" helped by members of The Pasadenas. Although the latter was a minor hit in Europe it wasn't enough to keep her on the label. In 1990 she made a couple of collaborative records, singing on the house tune "Peace and Harmony" with Brothers in Rhythm and Simon Harris's remake of Yarbrough and People's "Don't Stop The Music" on which she got a featuring credit.
She was then approached by Dennis Ingoldsby of First Avenue Management Company to work with their production duo Quartz who'd chalked up a minor hit with We're Comin At Ya' in 1990. "It's Too Late" is a cover of the Carole King break-up classic from Tapestry. a US number one in 1971. Quartz's chilled out house arrangement doesn't improve on it but it's not unlistenable either. It's heralded by an unusual clunking keyboard riff, represented by tapping empty wine bottles in the video. Dina performs the song without any Whitney / Mariah histrionics but her vocal lacks the character of King. The other quibble I have is that the middle eight goes on too long without anything much happening as if they don't have enough ideas to get the song over the three minute mark.
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