The mid-80s to mid-90s dance-pop group Cover Girls was the brainchild of producer/songwriter Andy "Panda" Triploi and promoter Sal Abbatiello. Taking cues from theburgeoning freestyle genre of music, (Which itself took cues from the classic 80s electro of acts like Mantronix and Afrika Bambaataa, and later acted as a disco-inflected progenitor to the 90s infusion of dance-house.) the duo recruited a rotating lineup of singers from 1987 to 1996, including Angel Civiles, Caroline Jackson, Sunshine Wright, Margo Urban, Evelyn Escalera, and Michelle Valentine.