Charmaine Fong: Next Steps

Charmaine Fong has a lively catalogue that flits between guitar-backed ballads and electro club bangers. She delights in giving slow jams a little international flair—like the Spanish guitar on “Table for Two”—but she's just as happy crafting high-energy dance numbers for the club set (“Dress Up”). And sometimes the two worlds mingle, as sweet, downtempo melodies morph into deliciously body-shaking bebops.