When Visage graduated from ADMA, she spent her days auditioning while working as a receptionist in the Garment District to get by. One day, a friend she met through the club scene, Idalis DeLeón, gave her a call at the front desk while she was working. Idalis was, like Visage, trying to make a name for herself in the entertainment industry and had just gotten into an interracial girl group called Seduction. “I was like, ‘Hello, I’m your best friend. Do they need a white girl?’” When Idalis informed Visage that Seduction already had one, she had only one retort: “Well, they don’t have me.”
After much coaxing, Visage wrangled the phone number for the group’s management out of Idalis. “They liked my tenacity, so they invited me in to sing for them,” she recalls. Visage met with David Cole and Robert Clivillés, who would go on to create C+C Music Factory. She prepared “Deja Vu (I’ve Been Here Before)” by Teena Marie as well as Jennifer Holliday’s “I Am Love” for the audition, but couldn’t hit the high note of the latter track. So, Cole made her a deal: “If you hit those notes, you’re in the group.” Visage turned around to calm her nerves, then sung her heart out. “Pack your panties, you’re going to Virginia Beach,” Cole said.
With Seduction, Visage would go on to record the album Nothing Matters Without Love and a handful of singles, including “Two to Make It Right,” which reached number two on the Billboard Hot 100. “I made zero money, but I had an incredible time,” Visage says with a laugh.
