Chart entered : 12 October 1991
Chart peak : 29 ( 2 on re-release in 1992, 26 in a re-mix in 1996 )
Number of hits : 10
Cecilia Peniton was born in 1969 and grew up in Phoenix. She enjoyed performing at school and college and also entered beauty pageants.
In 1991 her friend Felipe "DJ Wax Dawg" Delgado asked her to provide some backing vocals for a female rapper the Overweight Pooch . Ce Ce contributed to three tracks on her album Female Preacher including the single I Like It which was a minor hit at the beginning of 1992. The rapping sounds a bit stiff but I like the string parts on the house backing track. Ce Ce was credited as a co-writer on the other two tracks on which she featured. The album was not a success but one of the executive producers Manny Lehman was also an A & R man for A & M and liked Ce Ce's contributions. He commissioned Delgado to come up with a solo track for her.
Ce Ce had originally come up with the lyrics to "Finally" in a chemistry class. She presented them and a melody to Delgado who worked up the music with his friend Rodney K Jackson. The music is not that interesting, a generic pumping house track with a basic riff so that focuses attention on the song. Ce Ce's lyrics concern finding the right one after a number of let downs and she delivers a fine vocal performance sounding like Whitney Houston on the bridge to the chorus. That chorus is one of the more memorable from this genre although it does owe a little to Carole King's It's Too Late ( recently covered by Quartz and Dina Carroll ). The song reached number 5 in the US.
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