Sulene Fleming

Fleming started singing at an early age, discovering diverse music styles (soul,funk and Disco) in her mother's record collection. Her main influence at an early age was the vocal style of Phyllis Hyman, Betty Wright, Aretha Franklin and Chaka Khan amongst many other great soulful Artists]]. From age 15 she started performing with several local bands in Bradford/Yorkshire, singing lead and background vocals. She worked as a session singer when she was just eighteen years old, she started demoing songs for EMI, Peer and Sony music for their songwriters and producers.

Sulene worked with Stargate Productions in 1998. She sessioned with this production team for 2 years recording in Trondheim Norway.

During this period she worked on The New Master Sounds very first record in 2001, she wrote the lyrics for the track Turn This Thing Around on the album ‘Keb Darge Presents The New Master Sounds’. She toured live on and off with The New Master Sounds for a couple of years and they released one more record together ‘Get Back’ before they then became an instrumental outfit.The New Mastersounds[1]

Sulene toured with various bands over the course of three years and started to write songs for music production companies such as Audio Network. In 2005 Sulene formed the band Sweet Suzi which were a pop/rock band, they wrote over an albums worth of songs and toured with the likes of INME, Terrorvision and Wednesday 13. The band split up in 2007 and Sulene went back to the pop circuit touring with pop bands. In 2008 Sulene recorded the vocal on Land Of Dance by Sy & Unknown which was on the True Hardcore 2 compilation by Storm and Whizzkid. This was her first entry into the Dance music world.

In 2010 Soulheat Records released a track which Sulene cowrote with Kehoe and Harmony called ‘Sunshine In This Heart Of Mine’ which was featured on The Ministry Of Sound Housexy Summer compilation. On moving to London from the North in 2009 she had joined a band called The Fantastics who had already had success on the funk scene. In 2011 They went on to produce ‘All The People’ an album including four vocal tunes which Sulene had written. She continues to perform and write with the band.The Fantastics[2]

In 2012 Sulene teamed up with T-Roy from Broadcite music and they wrote the deep house track ‘A New Love’ which came out on Broadcite Music including remixes from Khyan and DJ Steph. Later in 2015 they released another deep house EP called ‘The Rhythm’ which included remixes from Daz I Kue, Uchikawa LoftSoul and T-Roy. Sulene sang back up vocals for International Artists such as Leroy Hutson in 2017 and 2018, Deneice Williams, Barbara Mason, The Valentine Brothers, Randy Brown and Alton Mclain in 2018. In 2015 Sulene joined Bluey of Incognito’s band Citrus Sun for a tour of Japan and later that year she Sulene also contributed vocal work for the acid jazz band incognito.[3]

Sulene released the album Loveland in 2015 on VeeGee Records with cowriter Nick Van Gelder (Original Jamiroquai drummer)Vangelder/Fleming.[4] In 2016 she teamed up with musician composer Dimitris Dimopoulos, they then released the album Sparkle on Splash Productions, the album hit number one in the UK soul charts. [5]

Fleming toured with the Brand New Heavies in 2016. The band toured with N'Dea Davenport in the U.S., and for the European leg of the tour, Fleming worked as their lead singer.[6] They toured in the UK, Spain, Holland, Sweden, Germany, Serbia and Japan.

In 2019 she started to work with Dr Robert from The Blow Monkeys in association with Monks Road Records. Sulene sang on numerous records for the Monks Road Social Projects including the album ‘Out Of Bounds’ and ‘Humanism’ [7] this is where she met Matt Deighton who is the lead singer of acid jazz band Mother Earth. Fleming now sings with the UK soul-rock band Mother Earth.[8] which includes Mick Talbot from The Style Council, Galliano and Dexy’s,Crispin Taylor from Galiano, Candi Staton and Paul Weller and Ernie McKone from Carleen Anderson, Galliano and Push.

• Mother Earth website
• Official Brand New Heavies website
• Official Sulene Fleming website
• The Fantastics website
• Newmastersounds website
• Record Label