A HUGE RnB singer looks pretty unrecognisable, 31 years after her smash hit.
Since taking the music scene by storm decades ago, she has since quit fame in favour of a normal job.
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Sybil Lynch – better known simply as Sybil – started recording in 1986 and she released her first single ‘Falling in Love’.
Now she’s focussed on spreading her knowledge far and wide, although she still sorts the same signature smile.
The 80’s song reached number 30 in the dance charts which kicked off her career.
Her first album was a minor hit but she fully hit the mainstream when she covered two of Dionne Warwick’s hits.
She released two covers of ‘Don’t Make Me Over’ and ‘Walk On By’ released in 1989 and 1990 respectively.
The former track reached number 20 on the Billboard Hot 100, 19 in the UK and it was a number one hit in New Zealand.
Her second self-titled album was also a hit, reaching number three in New Zealand and had a peak position of 21 in the UK Albums Chart.
January of 1993 saw her biggest hit in the UK when she released ‘The Love I Lost’.
The song reached number three in the UK, number 5 in the Netherlands, and number nine in Ireland.
Her follow-up to this, ‘When I’m Good and Ready’, also achieved significant success where it peaked at number five.
However, the singer seemed to have become disillusioned with the industry by 1997 when she terminated her record contract.
She kept working at first by touring and releasing tracks aimed at the club market, before embarking on a complete career change.
The hit singer transferred to the education sector where she taught the art of lyric and songwriting composition as well as creative writing.
She later became a program director at the Guilford Technical Community College in North Carolina in the city of Greensboro.
It also happens that she’s is also the cousin of Maxine Jones from the hit nineties girl group En Vogue.
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