Love Inc.
In 1997, Sheppard and Brad Daymond formed Love Inc., in which Denny was a full member. They released their self-titled debut album in 1998; the album spawned the chart hits "Broken Bones" and "You're a Superstar", with the former song winning the
Juno Award for
Dance Recording of the Year at the
Juno Awards of 1999, and became the first dance music album by Canadian artists ever to receive platinum certification for Canadian sales. performing poorly on the charts and containing only one noteworthy hit single, although the band did again win the Juno for Dance Recording of the Year at the
Juno Awards of 2001, and critics praised Denny's vocals as the best thing about an otherwise weak album. In this era, Sheppard was also beginning to develop a reputation for egotism: in early 2001, Denny had to back out of a previously-unannounced surprise appearance as a special guest who would perform several live songs at one of Sheppard's DJ shows at a dance club in
Regina,
Saskatchewan. The club cancelled the show outright since it considered Denny to be the real star of the event, but Sheppard tried to use legal threats to force the club to pay him anyway. The band did not release any further recordings, and broke up after
Into the Night, with Denny attributing the breakup to Sheppard mistreating her because he felt like he was the true creative force behind the band even though Denny was generally considered its star. Denny later noted that she had remained on friendlier terms with Daymond right up until his death in 2018. ==Widelife and solo career==