" These pseudonyms include: Jamie Starr and The Starr Company ( for the songs he wrote for The Time and many other artists from 1981 – 1984 ), Joey Coco ( for many unreleased Prince songs in the late 1980s, as well as songs written for Sheena Easton & Kenny Rogers ), Paisley Park ( occasionally used in the early 1990s for his production credits on songs, including those written for Martika and Kid Creole ), Alexander Nevermind ( for writing the 1984 song " Sugar Walls " by Sheena Easton ), and Christopher ( used for his song writing credit of " Manic Monday " for The Bangles ).

It became a hit for the channel, spawning many future stars in both music and acting during its nine-year run, including Martika ( who went by her real name of Marta Marrero in the show's first season ), eventual Party of Five co-stars Scott Wolf and Jennifer Love Hewitt ( billed as Love Hewitt ), and Stacy Ferguson ( later known as " Fergie " of The Black Eyed Peas ).

Her first album, 1988's Martika, spawned the song “ Toy Soldiers ,” which she co-wrote with her producer Michael Jay, and became a top 5 hit in the United Kingdom and many other countries.

Pat Mastelotto recorded several hits with The Rembrandts, Jude Cole, Cock Robin, Martika, as well as alternative bands ( XTC, Robyn Hitchcock, The Sugarcubes ), and many others.

By 1992, the girls had found their new manager, Marta Marrero ( mother of fellow Kids Incorporated alumna Martika ), and a new name: " Wild Orchid ".

Following her role in Kids Incorporated and Be Somebody, Martika was signed by Columbia Records as a potential Madonna-like pop star.

Martika and Renee Sands covered the song for Kids Incorporated, in 1986.

The disappearances of some actors, such as Jerry Sharell, Martika, Renee Sands and Rahsaan Patterson, were written into the script.

Martika played the role of the lounge singer Dahlia Mendez in the early 1990s cop show Wiseguy, opposite Steven Bauer, but the return to acting was brief and she eventually faded from the public eye around 1993.

The song samples 1989 song " Toy Soldiers " by Martika and the main title theme from 1972 film The Hot Rock.

" Like Toy Soldiers " features a vocal sample from " Toy Soldiers " by Martika, which makes up the chorus.

An hour of music on Pirate Radio in the spring of 1989 could include early crossover hip hop artist Tone Lōc, electronic music from Depeche Mode, a pop music ballad by Martika, a Pop rock song by The Bangles, satirical Punk rock by the Dead Milkmen, all mixed with music from such rock and heavy metal acts as Iron Maiden, Billy Squier, and Winger.

Lopez was one of few artists who have converted successfully from an acting career into a recording career, and the first since Vanessa Williams ( 1992 ) and Martika ( 1989 ).

For example, Marta " Martika " Marrero's character was named " Gloria " while Jerry Sharell's character was named " Mickey " and Jennifer Love Hewitt's character was called " Robin.

Martika ( born as Marta Marrero, May 18, 1969 ) is an American pop singer-songwriter and actress of Cuban descent.

Martika was born in 1969 in Whittier, California.

Martika was encouraged by her agent to combine her love of film and music by scoring soundtracks and, in 1990, she wrote and recorded the song “ Blue Eyes are Sensitive to the Light ” for the soundtrack to the film Arachnophobia.

In 1991 Martika was approached by Prince to record some of his tracks.

In 1997 a greatest hits album entitled The Best of Martika: More Than You Know was released.

During the 2000 explosion of Latin pop music, Martika re-emerged into the music world, singing backing vocals on various projects and contributing lyrics to releases by other artists, although she failed to grab any major-label attention for herself.

In 2003 Martika joined forces with her husband, musician Michael Mozart, to form the band Oppera.

In response, Martika ’ s British Greatest Hits album was repackaged with its title altered to Toy Soldiers: The Best of Martika.

Martika promoted Opperas release with a Borders bookstore tour.

In 2010, Martika, now going under the stage name Vida Edit, starred as Lolly Pop and co-produced a web-based television action program J8ded.

In October 2011 Martika stopped using the stage name Vida Edit and launched a new personal website.

Her voice can be heard on albums by Carly Simon, Ray Parker, Jr., Kim Carnes, Santana, Martika, Laura Branigan, Belinda Carlisle, Selena, Bette Midler, Mylène Farmer and Madonna.

A few months later it became a top 10 hit for Martika.

It included the title track ( which reached # 10 on the Hot Dance US charts ) and the single " Wrong Number ", as well as featuring the background vocal talents of Martika and Donna De Lory.

Never a `` quick study '', he now made no attempt to learn his `` lines '' and many a mile of film was wasted, many a scene -- sometimes involving as many as a thousand fellow thespians -- was taken thirty, forty, fifty times because Miss Poitrine's co-star and `` helpmate '' had never learned his part.

Another patient, a paranoid woman, for many months infuriated not only me but the ward-personnel and her fellow patients by arrogantly behaving as though she owned the whole building, as though she were the only person in it whose needs were to be met.

In any case the vests were abandoned by many soldiers due to their weight on long marches as well as the stigma they got for being cowards from their fellow troops.

" Cobb was a mean-spirited man, fiercely competitive and loathed by many of his fellow professionals, but his career batting average of. 366 has yet to be bested.

For example, Psalm 34 is attributed to David on the occasion of his escape from the Abimelech ( king ) Achish by pretending to be insane-according to the narrative in 1 Samuel 21, instead of killing the man who had exacted so many casualties from him, Abimelech allows David to depart, exclaiming, " Am I so short of madmen that you have to bring this fellow here to carry on like this in front of me?

The book was financed with help from his fellow cadets at West Point, many of whom donated 75 cents to the cause, raising a total of $ 170.

Plutarch writes that many Romans found the triumph held following Caesar's victory to be in poor taste, as those defeated in the civil war had not been foreigners, but instead fellow Romans.

Anatoli's example of broad-minded study of Christian literature and intercourse with Christian scholars found many followers, as, for example, Moses ben Solomon of Salerno ; and his work was an important factor in bringing the Jews of Italy into close contact with their Christian fellow students.

In 2004 he caused a media sensation when he broke with many fellow environmentalists by pronouncing that " only nuclear power can now halt global warming ".

As they became increasingly Persianized they settled in the more Indo-Iranian sedentary centers such as Kashgaria, and became detached from the nomadic traditions of fellow Karluks, many of whom retained cultural elements of the Uyghur Khanate.

Along with the fellow Washington, D. C. hardcore band Bad Brains and California band Black Flag, Minor Threat set the standard for many hardcore punk bands in the 1980s and 1990s.

After the war, he decided not to join the newly founded Finnish Workers ' Sports Federation, but wrote articles for the federation's chief organ and criticized the discrimination against many of his fellow workers and athletes.

On January 16, 1996 after about four years in power, Strasser was arrested in a coup by his fellow NPRC soldiers, led by his deputy Brigadier Julis Maada Bio and backed by many high ranking soldiers of the NPRC junta.

Ellen White came to occupy a particularly central role ; her many visions and spiritual leadership convinced her fellow Adventists that she possessed the gift of prophecy.

Around this time a few other small local groups began to spring up in metropolitan areas around the United States, many of them connecting with fellow enthusiasts via the Science Correspondence Club.

Wilson " Bob " Tucker slipped so many of his fellow fans and authors into his works that doing so is called tuckerization.

However, as happened to many prominent individuals in the Athenian democracy, Themistocles's fellow citizens grew jealous of his success, and possibly tired of his boasting.

Two years after its publication many of the novel's events were corroborated by Melville's fellow castaway, Richard T. Greene.

However, Taft surprised many by announcing that he was not a candidate ; instead he voiced his support for a fellow conservative, Governor John W. Bricker of Ohio.

Safe trade, they argue, would have removed the need for any such measures, as vaccination of British beef cattle would have been possible ( the burning was to prevent British exports of beef from being rejected by its trade partners, who would not have been able to tell vaccinated from infected beef ), and the foot-and-mouth disease was not so dangerous to humans that it could have justified dooming so many fellow citizens to die of the dioxin-caused cancers.

For many years, Hicks was friends with fellow comedian Denis Leary.

Fossils of fellow reef-dwellers algae, sponges, and the remains of many echinoids, brachiopods, bivalves, gastropods, and trilobites appear along with coral fossils.

At the age of sixteen, Saint-Saëns wrote his first symphony ; his second, published as Symphony No. 1 in E-flat major, was performed in 1853 to the astonishment of many critics and fellow composers.