Kathy Sledge Takes Questions Before Electric Paradise Performance

Kathy Sledge, the lead voice on some of the most enduring records of the disco era, will take part in a reader Q&A ahead of her appearance at the Electric Paradise festival in Milton Keynes on 8 August. The Guardian is collecting questions until 6pm GMT on Wednesday, with her answers to be published later in the week.

Sledge’s voice defined the top side of the Sister Sledge album We Are Family, where Chic’s Nile Rodgers and Bernard Edwards placed “He’s the Greatest Dancer,” “Lost in Music,” “Thinking of You,” and the title track back to back. Those songs remain pillars of dance music, and their remixed versions returned to the charts in 1984 and 1993. Sister Sledge’s only UK No. 1, the neo-60s pop single “Frankie,” came in 1985 with a different stylistic turn, but it is the Rodgers/Edwards material that still anchors her sets.

At Electric Paradise, Sledge joins a lineup that includes Grace Jones, Candi Staton, and Kool and the Gang—a concentrated dose of late-20th-century club history. The Q&A opens a direct line to a singer who has navigated group stardom, a solo career, and legal disputes with her sisters over the use of the Sister Sledge name. That history, and the sheer weight of the catalog, give readers plenty of ground to cover.