She is best known for her single "Let the Music Play", which topped the Billboard Dance Club Songs chart in 1983 and was certified gold.
In 1999, Shannon appeared in a segment of VH1's One-Hit Wonders,[2] and returned to music with her fourth studio album The Best Is Yet to Come (2000).
[2] Quintin Hicks, an associate of the production team of Mark Liggett and Chris Barbosa, saw Shannon singing with a live band in her cousin's recording studio.
[2] In July 1983, "Let the Music Play" was released on New York-based dance label Emergency[2] and Shannon was invited back to record more songs with Liggett and Barbosa.
Shannon's studio album Let the Music Play went on to sell approximately 1.5 million worldwide,[citation needed] with 500,000 of those sold in the United States, earning gold certification.
[12] She scored three more dance hits, including "Stronger Together", a cover of "Urgent" by Foreigner, and "Stop the Noise", with a video sponsored by Pepsi and Black Angus.
She recorded soundtracks, jingles, and the track "Criminal", for the movie Fatal Beauty, starring Whoopi Goldberg.
While touring the world, Shannon attended and graduated from the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York City.
Today, Shannon is a voting member of the Grammy's (Recording Academy), and she occasionally performs shows around the world.
In 2017, Shannon was a contestant on the Fox game show Beat Shazam where she was partnered with former Stetsasonic member Bobby Simmons.