Unreleased
music from short-lived UK R&B trio Kleshay, who originally started out with
members of the Honeyz as one supergroup before splintering off into two
separate acts in the late 90s. I believe the members were cousins and relations
to The Honeyz' Celena Cherry although I don't know for absolute certain. While
the Honeyz notched up several UK top 5 hits, a Gold album and went on to sign
with U.S. label Def Jam, Kleshay never made it past two singles “Reasons”
(1998) and “Rush” (1999). They did record an album Triodasyde, which was
not released. They were a solid R&B group who could’ve given their sister
group the Honeyz a definite run for their money but sadly the 90s was not the
best time to be an up-and-coming girl group in Britain. Said of the track
“Desire” on their official Facebook page “DESIRE is very
different to the singles it's a very upbeat Spanish/Latin type pop track it
will get you moving straight away, it was written by the girls with Preston Heyman
and Blair Mackichan and produced by Preston in 1998!” “Never Did Say I
Love You”, a beautiful acoustic ballad, also showcases their diversity as a
group. They wanted to be different to all the imported, cookie-cutter R&B
groups at the time and their album demonstrated it very well.
Such a shame that it went unreleased but it appears that the label Jerv Records
did not last long.
Reasons (Original Version Edit) 3:50
Rush (Extended Version) 4:07
Never Did Say (I Love You) 4:59
Desire 4:31
