Innate around Harlem, New York to professional singers, Robinson was encouraged from either childhood to pursue a career inside showbusiness, & at a age of Sixteen joined the Broadway cast of the musical Hair. She so landed a few little roles in the films "Going Home" (1971) starring Robert Mitchum & "To Find A Man" (1972) starring Pamela Sue Martin. Her profits led her to join a cast of Jesus Christ Superstar in 1973.

Her debut album around 1976 titled "Never Gonna Let You Go", provided her by having a large hit of her career, a disco individual "Turn The Beat Around". This song reached the United states Top 10, spent captain hicks months on the chart, & earned her the nomination for a Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance. Farther singles from either her trinity watch-higher albums failed to achieve this profits. Vicki returned to acting within 1979, co-starring using Michael V. Gazzo & Peter Iacangelo in the black & white modster film "Gangsters".

Around 1981 her disco cover version of the Lulu hit, "To Sir With Love", reached a Top Five inside Australia. Throughout a Eighty's & Xc's she continued to provide her vocals, merely this period as the sessiin singer on albums for top creative person rather Cher, Michael Bolton & RuPaul among others, when at a equivalent instance establishing a career singing jingles for television advertising. Inside 1985 her vocals were utilized when a singing voice of Kath Soucie from either a alive TV series "Jem!".

Robinson re-gained a few publicity from either a profits of Gloria Estefan's 1994 version of "Turn The Beat Around". the profits of the only inspired Vicki to re-record a freshly version of "Turn The Beat Around" for the insolent side of her 1995 lone "For Real". Inside 1997 she achieved her just hit only in a United Kingdom by using the track "House Of Joy". Within October of that equivalent seasin Vicki appeared when herself on Comedy Central's mock documentary film "Unauthorized Biography: Milo, Death Of A Supermodel". The revitalization of interest inside disco in the late 1990s led Robinson, along by owning fellow veterans K.C. and the Sunshine Band, Thelma Houston, Gloria Gaynor and the Village People to embark on a well received world tour.

Upon giving to the Usa, Robinson began performing inside an Off-Broadway musical titled "Behind The Beat" which was semi-autobiographical within nature & severity, and featured her hit songs, along sustaining her better known jingles. Within September of 1999 Vicki released her final individual "Move On" which reached #18 in Hoarding's Dance Chart. When you took that equivalent year she was forced to withdraw from either a indicate due to unhealthiness. Upright prior to Vicki's malady became terminal she play the role of a fairy godmother in the independent film "Red Lipstick". A film was freed in April 16, 2000 & good Xi years late, in April 27, 2000, Vicki died from either cancer in Wilton, Connecticut. Her record company, RCA Records released a "Greatest Hits" album two or three months when her dying.