Gwen Guthrie – Portrait (VG/VG) – LP, FR 1983

Portrait is an LP by Gwen Guthrie from 1983 released on the Island Records label.

About this album

Portrait is a sharp, stylish statement from Gwen Guthrie, one of the most distinctive voices in 1980s dance music. Issued in 1983, the album blends boogie, funk, disco and dub into a polished club-soul sound that suits Guthrie’s cool confidence and plainspoken vocal authority. Best known for the enduring favourite “Ain’t Nothin’ Goin’ on but the Rent” from her wider catalogue, she brings the same streetwise presence and rhythmic finesse here, with songs such as “Peanut Butter” and “Padlock” showing her gift for hooks that feel immediate and unmistakably New York. Portrait helped confirm Guthrie as a key figure in post-disco R&B.