Cherrelle (born Cheryl Week Norton in Detroit, Michigan October 13, 1958) is a soul singer and cousin of pop singer and TLC-founder Perri "Pebbles" Reid. Biography Cherrelle began her career working with jazz/R&B artists Norman Conners and Michael Henderson, as well as touring with Luther Vandross. After Tabu Records founder Clarence Avant discovered her demo, he signed her to his label in 1983. Cherrelle got her stage name after her boss from a job hollered "Cher-relle, you're late again!" In 1984, under the production of Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis, she released her debut album Fragile, which went gold thanks to the Top Ten R&B single, "I Didn't Mean to Turn You On" which became a hit again when pop singer Robert Palmer covered in on his 1985 smash album Riptide. Nearly two decades after its release, Mariah Carey enlisted the help of Jam & Lewis to do a near-identical remake of "