Cheryl Lynn (born Lynda Cheryl Smith; March 11, 1957) is an American disco, R&B and soul singer known best for her 1978 disco song, "Got to Be Real", which scored #12 on the Billboard Hot 100 record chart and #1 on the R & B chart. The success of the single prompted a debut album. Named Cheryl Lynn, the album sold more than a million copies and scored #5 on Billboard magazine??'?s R&B albums chart and #23 on Billboards top 200 album charts. The next single off the album, "Star Love"', didn't fare so well, only reaching #62 on the Billboard Hot 100 record chart and #16 R&B. During 1981, Ray Parker, Jr. produced "Shake It Up Tonight", a major dance & R&B success from Lynn's third album, In the Night. The next year, Luther Vandross was asked to produce Lynn's fourth album, Instant Love. The 2nd single from the album, "If This World Were Mine" - a 1982 duet with Luther Vandross become a classic. For her fifth album, Preppie, the single "Encore" - which was written and produced by the Minneapolis funk music duo, Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis - became Lynn's second #1 R&B chart single . During 1989, Lynn released the top 10 single, "Every Time I Try To Say Goodbye", from her eighth album, Whatever It Takes. Lynn is considered an influence on some of today's R&B female singers, including Mary J. Blige, who, along with Will Smith, covered Lynn's song "Got to Be Real".

Below is a list of Cheryl Lynn songs, sorted by the most popular first. Place mouse on to see information about song. Click song title to play song and to read details about the song including lyrics (if available). Click year to list all songs from that year. Click label to list songs from that record label. Songs with chart position "---" either never made it into the US top 100 R&B or UK charts or we have no details of their highest chart positions if they did.

(Song are sorted in highest US R&B Top 100 and/or UK Top 100 chart position order)