SULENE FLEMING BIOGRAPHY 

Sulene is a recording artist singer and songwriter, she started singing from an early age. 
She started to work as a session singer when she was eighteen years old demoing songs for EMI, Peer and Sony music for their songwriters and producers and gaining more musical knowledge. 
After this period in 1998 she went onto work with world renowned songwriter/producers Stargate and worked with them for a couple of years until they parted ways in 2002.

During this period she was asked to sing on The New Master Sounds first record in 2001 supported by Keb Darge. Sulene wrote the melody and lyrics in the studio that day for the track Turn This Thing Around on the funk acclaimed album ‘Keb Darge Presents The New Master Sounds’.
She toured live on and off with TNMS for a couple of years, they released one more record together ‘Get Back’ before they then became an instrumental outfit.

Sulene toured with various bands and had numerous session work over the course of three years, she then started to write songs for music production companies such as Audio Network.
Her music was getting picked up and used in movies such as All is Well, Why Does God Hate Me, Money, 22 Bullets, Scents and Sensibility and more.
Sulene’s cowrites are being used throughout the media world on television programmes and commercials such as The It Crowd, Old School, You Me Her, Coronation Street, Emmerdale, Law & Order, Neighbours ,Georgie Shore, Take Me Out and many more.
Some computer games have been , Heavy Rain, Deus Ex Machina & Beyond Two Souls.

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 after being under The Stereophonics Ex management. 
The band split up in 2007 and Sulene went back to the pop circuit touring worldwide with pop bands and still prolifically writing for music production companies.

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. Although Sulene had also been brought up on dance music through her brother  Craig, this was to be her first encounter singing in this genre to which a record had been released.

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’s 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.

In 2012 Sulene went back to the dance world teaming 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.

In 2015 Sulene had the honour of performing at The Britten Theatre for “An Evening With Quincy Jones” which also had star studded performances from Beverly Knight, Mica Paris , Jocelyn Brown and Jacob Collier amongst others.

In 2015 Sulene joined Bluey of Incognito’s band Citrus Sun for a tour of Japan and later that year she sang backing vocals on an Incognitos album track ‘Loves Revival’ album entitled ‘In Search Of Better Days’. 

Sulene released the album ‘Loveland’ in 2015 on VeeGee Records with cowriter Nick Van Gelder (Ex Jamiroquai drummer) 
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. 

Later in 2016 she joined the acid jazz band The Brand New Heavies, she toured worldwide with them for two years as their lead singer, she then left the band in 2018.

Sulene has sang back up vocals for soul legends such as Leroy Hutson in 2017 and 2018, Deneice Williams, Barbara Mason, The Valentine Brothers, Randy Brown & Alton McClain in 2018.

Other Artists Sulene has worked with are Mark Stewart of The Pop Group on his UK tour in 2012.
One off backing vocal shows have been with Sophie Ellis Bextor in 2019. Brindsley Ford ( Aswad )and Carroll Thompson in 2017 and Aloe Black for The Voice UK in 2014.

In 2019 Sulene played live with Odyssey and joined Brian McFadden’s (West Life) live band touring the UK.

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’ this is where she met Matt Deighton who is the lead singer of acid jazz band Mother Earth.

She now writes and performs with Mother Earth along with Matt and the new line up, 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. 
They released their EP ‘Soona Than Much Layta in 2019 and are working on new material. 
Also in 2019 Sulene joined the band Incognito for some live shows in and around Europe. 

Sulene continues to release records in the Dance music genre, working with Lenny Fontana, Pausepushers, Moodymanc and Distant People to name a few. 
She is steadily building on her solo career in the dance/soulful house area and often teams up with her husband Francis Hylton on music production projects.

www.sulenefleming.com