R&B radio jumped on board and Connors and Hyman scored on the R&B chart with a remake of The Stylistics' " Betcha by Golly Wow!" Later career After the title song got airplay on jazz radio, You Are My Starship went gold, catapulting Hyman's, Norman Connors's, and Michael Henderson's careers to new heights. One night after a Jon Lucien concert at Carnegie Hall, he saw Hyman perform and offered her a spot as the female vocalist on his fourth album for Buddah Records. He heard about Phyllis Hyman, who was working at a club on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. In 1975 when Norman Connors was laying tracks for You Are My Starship (1976), he could not get permission to use Jean Carne for the album. Hyman moved to New York City where she did background vocals on Jon Lucien's Premonition and worked in clubs. She also did a two-year stint leading a band called "Phyllis Hyman and the P/H Factor." In 1975, music industry veteran, Sid Maurer, and former Epic Records promoter, Fred Frank, discovered and signed her to their Roadshow Records/Desert Moon imprint. After the group disbanded, she joined All the People and worked with another local group, The Hondo Beat. On graduation, she performed on a national tour with the group, New Direction, in 1971. After leaving Pittsburgh, her music training started at a music school. Hyman's paternal great-grandparents were Ishmael and Cassandra (Cross) Hyman. Clair Village, the South Hills section of Pittsburgh. The eldest of seven children, Hyman was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to Phillip, a World War II veteran, and Louise Hyman, a waitress at a local night club, and grew up in St.
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