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Baby D (group)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 24, 2026
Entity authorityQ797832 ↗
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Baby D are a British breakbeat hardcore and house music group, best known for their hit single "Let Me Be Your Fantasy" which reached number 1 on the UK chart in 1994.

Career

The group was formed by Production House Records, a record label set up in 1987 by former recording artist Phil Fearon, whose group Galaxy had had a number of hits in the 1980s. Involved with the rave scene, Production House's in-house record producer, Floyd Dyce, wrote and performed under several different names, including the House Crew, DMS and Xstatic.

Baby D were originally another outlet for his compositions, consisting of his wife, lead vocalist Dee Galdes-Fearon (a former member of Galaxy), Claudio Galdez on keyboards and windsynth and Terry Jones (rap name: MC Juice / stage name: MC Nino) on vocals and keyboards. Their debut track "Casanova" with Jazz & The Brothers Grimm was released in 1989.

"Let Me Be Your Fantasy" reached number 1 on the UK Singles Chart in November 1994. The success continued with "(Everybody's Got to Learn Sometime) I Need Your Loving" (a 1995 cover of the Korgis classic), "So Pure" and "Take Me to Heaven", all included in the album Deliverance (1996). At the first MOBO Awards show in 1996 Baby D won in the category "Best Dance Act".

In 2000, a UK garage remix of "Let Me Be Your Fantasy" (courtesy of the Trick or Treat production team) made the UK top 20. In 2004, the track was also covered by Ashley Jade but, although it made number 19 on the US Hot Dance Singles Sales chart, it did not make the main listing.

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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 24, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q797832. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1994, 1987, 1989 and 1995.

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