Cheryl "Pepsii" Riley -Guess I'm In Love (1993)

Cheryl Riley, who worked as a nurse for handicapped children for ten years before beginning her singing career, topped the US R&B chart and hit the Top 40 on the US pop chart at no. 32 with the 1988 ballad, Thanks for My Child, a song written by Full Force. It also peaked at no. 75 in the UK Singles Chart in January 1989. Riley still had her nurse's job when the song went to number one on the R&B chart.
 The genesis of that song began with Full Force member Bowlegged Lou's experience with the complications of his wife's first pregnancy.
As pivotal as Thanks for My Child was for Riley's career, it was not the first song Lou offered to her. She refused his offer to record  I Wonder If I Take You Home because she did not want to spread herself too thin, but after it became a million-selling hit for Lisa Lisa and Cult Jam in 1985, she thought she had missed her big break.
The title track single to her debut LP Me Myself and I made it to no.18 on the R&B charts in early 1989. Another single, Every Little Thing About You, peaked at no. 55 on the R&B charts later that year. Her second LP, Chapters, was issued and yielded the singles How Can You Hurt the One You Love and a cover of Aretha Franklin's 1968 hit Ain't No Way. Her third album All That! was released by Reprise records, and featured the singles Gimme and  the track below, Guess I'm in Love.
After a hiatus from the entertainment industry, Riley re-emerged in the early 2000s as a star in a number of gospel plays for best-selling playwright Tyler Perry. In 2006, she released her first album in 14 years, called Let Me Be Me.