Fad began in 1985 as a quintet comprising Juana Burns (MC J.B.), Dania Birks (Baby-D), Anna Cash (Lady Anna), Fatima Shaheed (O.G. Sugarhill Presents The Sequence can be considered the first Hip Hop LP in Hip Hop history released by female artists – in fact, it’s one of the first Hip Hop albums ever PERIOD, together with the first Sugar Hill compilation and Kurtis Blow’s debut album that both were released in 1980 too. Their most notable single was “ Funk You Up” (1979), which was the first rap record released by a female group and the second single released by Sugar Hill Records. The trio was noticed when they bum-rushed a performance by the Sugarhill Gang and sang for them and Sylvia Robinson backstage. The group consisted of Cheryl Cook, known as “Cheryl The Pearl”, Gwendolyn Chisolm, known as “Blondie” and lead singer/ rapper Angie Brown Stone, as Angie B. The Sequence is noted as the first female Hip Hop group signed to the Sugar Hill Records label in the late–1970s and early–1980s. ![]() The Sequence was an all-female trio from Columbia, South Carolina, that formed in 1979. ![]() The Sequence – Sugarhill Presents The Sequence (1980)
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