GHOST NOTES: The voice they tried to erase.
Martha Wash’s voice is on some of the biggest dance records of the 1990s. It just wasn’t her face. Wash sang the actual vocals on Black Box’s “Everybody Everybody” and C+C Music Factory’s “Gonna Make You Sweat (Everybody Dance Now),” two of the era’s biggest hits. Record labels hired other women, thinner, conventionally marketed women,…