How Snap's Penny Ford Reconciled With "The Power"

On January 3rd, 1990, days after a unified East and West Berlin welcomed the new decade with a memorable New Years celebration a few feet away from Brandenburg Gate, German producers Luca Anzilotti and Michael Münzing unleashed "The Power," a song that blended soul, dance, and rap sounds. 

Though they weren't the first to come up with this fusion, the result was one of the most recognizable songs of all time and a symbol of the often problematic practices found in relationships between artists and production teams.

Penny Ford, a vocalist, multi-instrumentalist, and composer with years working alongside greats like Chaka Khan, Joni Mitchell, Zapp, and the Gap Band, was caught in the whirlwind of it all, and saw her life completely turned upside down by the unexpected opportunity of fronting the Snap! project, and securing its afterlife for the next three decades.

Show Tracklisting

• In The Name Of Love (Sharon Redd)
• Tell Me Something Good (Rufus feat. Chaka Khan)
• Change Your Wicked Ways (Penny Ford)
• Our Day Will Come (Chaka Khan and Edwin Starr)
• Where Are You? (16 Bit)
• Oops Up (Snap!)
• Mary Had a Little Boy (Snap!)
• The Power (Chill Rob G)
• Love's Gonna Get You (Jocelyn Brown)
• The Power (Snap!)
• Rhythm Is A Dancer (Snap!)

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Host and Producer: Diego Martinez

Executive Producer: Nicholas "NickFresh" Puzo

Audio Engineer: Adam Fogel

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