Biography

A peroxide pixie cut (which she sported at the height of her fame)

Her biggest selling single was a cover of Otis Clay's 1980 song "The Only Way Is Up", which in the summer of 1988 spent 5 weeks at the top of the UK singles chart and ultimately became the 2nd biggest selling UK single of the year.

Born to a Jamaican father and a British mother.

Releases "Running Back To You", her first studio album in ten years.

Is not to be confused with the American rap artist Bryshere Y. Gray, who is sometimes known as "Yazz" or "Yazz The Greatest".

There was this huge picture of me in the press. They had overdeveloped one photo and underdeveloped the other so I looked really dark skinned and really white. They said 'Yazz goes Daz'. 'Yazz is using chemicals to whiten her skin, it's another Michael Jackson'. That was wounding. From there I didn't trust anyone in the media. There were constant lies to sell the paper.

[on her pop success] When you imagine things in your life that you hope to achieve, you always see it in a controlled situation, that you're in control. It certainly wasn't like that. I had no control whatsoever, I was just this massive product. That was devastating when you realise you're a puppet.

My manager and my publisher were my husband [Jazz Summers]. In effect, my husband owned me and when we left each other, that's when I realised I'd been completely taken. I didn't have a lot of money at all. I was in a very dark place, thinking about my life and its true value.