Teen Dream (band)

Throughout their journey, Teen Dream sold over 100,000 record albums worldwide making them popular in some degree. Subsequently defined late 1980’s R&B Music as popular artists blew up and sold more record labels than Teen Dream to take the ground against other underground American R&B artists even though they’ve endeavored when popular R&B artists were signed by high independent labels producing albums such as The Jets (Minnesota band), Lisa Lisa & Cult Jam and The Mac Band, plus Jermaine Stewart who was also from Columbus, Ohio where Teen Dream originally had originated. The band only became a minor R&B group in the United States and played live three times at different music venues, it was possible that they were mainstream overseas but therefore the band wasn’t as popular in United States. In 1988, Teen Dream was dropped from Warner Bros. and Terri left the group, Chris Powell insisted on keeping the group going, so he recruited two new girls to replace Terri (including Tia Stewart) and got them signed to a new record label with the Muscle Shoals Sound Records label in 1989 “Games” which flunked the charts making the band having zero profit before their 1990 disastrous breakup. By that point, there was only one member from the previous lineup remaining. Since then, it seems as if though Teen Dream faded into obscurity.

Terri Whitlow now runs her own band “Terri Whitlow and the show.” She still resides herself in Columbus, Ohio with her family.

Lisa Jackson now works at Morning Star baptist church in Cleveland, Ohio.

Nikki Cooper now works for Sony Entertainment as an Executive Business Manager in Los Angeles, California.

Chris Powell “the mentor” still runs and opens up new groups out of Columbus, Ohio.

• Terri Whitlow - lead vocals
• Lisa Jackson - vocals
• Nikki Cooper - vocals, synthesizer, keyboards
• Benny Medina - producer, all instruments
• Dan Hargrove - producer, keyboards, all instruments
• Chris Powell - executive producer, all instruments

• ”Let's Get Busy” 1986
• ”Toy” 1987
• ”I hear talk” 1988
• ”Games” 1989
• ”Everybody is somebody” on the soundtrack ‘Lean On Me’ 1989 (which featured Riff and Taja Sevelle)