Anita Ward has been played on NTS over 10 times, featured on 16 episodes and was first played on 22 September 2015.

Anita Ward (born 20 December 1956 in Memphis, Tennessee, USA) is an American Disco and R&B singer.

Before signing a recording contract, Ward obtained a degree in psychology from Rust College in Holly Springs, Mississippi, and had become a schoolteacher. While recording her first album (on Juana records) Frederick Knight, who owned the label, presented her with a song he had written the previous year for singer Stacy Lattisaw. Ward did not like the song, but Knight insisted that a dance track was needed…