The singer Joyce Sims has died aged 63.
The news was announced on social media by CJ Carlos, who worked at Chelsea Football Club, and said Joyce passed away yesterday (October 15).
Joyce is most well known for her single Come Into My Life, which reached the top 10 in the US Billboard R&B Chart, and UK Singles Chart in 1987.
She went onto release several more tracks in the following years, such as Lifetime Love, Walk Away and Looking For a Love.
Rapper Snoop Dogg and singer Angie Stone are among the stars who have sampled her work.
Joyce, who grew up in Rochester, New York, and was the eldest of five children, also worked in films, writing the tunes played on the 1995 film Species.
By the 1990s, her hits had slowed down, but Joyce continued working, and performed in London in August this year. Earlier this year, her new album, Change, was released.
Tributes poured in following the sad news, with one fan saying on Twitter : "It’s Painful to daily lose people we grew up on. Those who made the soundtracks to our lives. I partied and raved to the sound of this lady. So sad."
Another wrote: Oh no way! Joyce Sims has passed away aged 63. Come Into My Life is one of the greatest songs ever. RIP Joyce. You were an incredible talent."
A third fan said: "Ah man! RIP Joyce Sims. ‘Come In To My Life’ still sounds great and it always will be to me. TUNE!"
One person penned: Joyce Sims, Kurtis Mantronik, Shannon and Lisa Lisa, were the soundtrack to those glorious summers of the late 80's. Gone to soon RIP Joyce Sims."
A fifth person wrote: "Come Into My Life still sounds so beautiful. Timeless Joyce Sims track."
Soul Tracks said: "We are devastated to pass on the news of the death of R&B music great Joyce Sims at age 63. A great talent who sang, wrote and played for us for more than three decades."
In January, Joyce spoke of how her dreams came true after the release of the album, Come Into My Life, came out, in 1987.
She told This is Money: "It was a great year financially and in every other area of my life. I was excited to release my first album. Just to hold that album in my hand meant so much.
"A lot of the dreams and aspirations I had came true when the album was released. I'd say I made more than $100,000 that year from touring and close to $100,000 from album sales."
She said that in the 1980s, some nightclubs would pay her thousands just to sing her biggest hit in America, All in All.
"It would take me six minutes and 31 seconds and I could earn up to $3,000," she said.
Joyce's cause of death has not been disclosed.
