Music artists by genre: Disco
Disco hit makers of the 1970s! 5000 Volts consists of two talented individuals - stars in their own right.
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He was very popular during the mid 70s and early 80s on both sides of the iron curtain.
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Amanda Lear first surfaced in the early 1970s as a fetishistically clothed album-cover model for Roxy Music.
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"Ring My Bell" was one of Anita Ward's most successful hits. For the better part of 1979, her soaring voice would be heard on every radio station in the country. This song swept the disco scenes and kept other upcoming songs at bay.
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In 1976 the Baccara duo started from Spain to conquer Europe. This international famous duo with its sweet mediterranean touch makes everybody recall live romantic memories.
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Three beautiful girls in dazzling outfits, while exhibitionist Bobby Farrell parades his bare chest, as they rev up an audience ready to live up old times.
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Bonnie emerged as a strong solo artist with the release of "Free From My Freedom", "Heaven Must Have Sent You" and "I Can't Help Myself" (Sugar Pie Honey Bunch), all going to Number One and resulting in platinum sales and Billboard & American Music Awards as a solo performer and with the Pointer Sisters.
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Earth, Wind & Fire was one of the most musically accomplished, critically acclaimed, and commercially popular funk bands of the 1970s.
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Precious Wilson has one quality that stands out above the rest and that's her determination to succeed. She is not a newcomer to the business or the charts. Her first big break came with her band Eruption when they entered and won an "RCA Soul Search Contest" in 1975.
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Singer Evelyn "Champagne" King first came to fame with the million-selling 1970s disco smashes "Shame" and "I Don't Know If It's Right".
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The King, the Acknowledged Leader of the soul revolution. George McCrae's talents go much deeper than a "flash in the pan" one-time super star. His unique style, his universal appeal and his devotion to perfection have placed him in a position of continuing popularity in more than 82 countries for a decade.
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Who could forget her? Although disco's heyday came, went and has come full circle in a rush of retro lust for the genre and all things 1970s, pop culture never could say goodbye to the former Queen of Disco (officially crowned in 1975 before thousands of revellers in the Big Apple).
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Heatwave, one of the most popular soul bands of the past few decades, with their inimitable blend of sweet soul grooves and great pop/soul/dance songs, are back with a vengeance.
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Since their formation in 1981, Imagination have achieved a position of longevity and high profile in the fast changing and often fickle world of popular music.
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Jimmy embarked on a solo career which saw him chalk up another 5 hit singles and two albums; "Read My Lips" (1989) and "The Singles Collection" (1990).
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From the beginning of her career, she considers she has taken part in more than 200 songs. Jocelyn is one of the most "gay-friendly" divas around, with frequent appearances in night-clubs, the Gay Pride celebrations in London and also at the Manchester Mardi Gras festival. Jocelyn also appeared on Gaytime TV in the "Torchsong" spot.
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The Bee Gees may have been the undisputed disco kings of the late 70s, but KC And The Sunshine Band weren't far behind. From the mid to late 1970s, the multi-member and racially integrated group led by bandleaders Harry Wayne "KC" Casey and Richard Finch racked up some of the era's biggest and instantly recognizable dance hits.
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Kelly Marie is known as a disco-queen from the 1980s. She worked with Mungo Jerry ("In The Summertime"). He composed her first hit "Feels Like I'm In Love" in 1980 which went gold.
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It may surprise some that perennial dance diva Loleatta Holloway's highest charting solo record was a soulful ballad, "Cry To Me". Still, Holloway is best known for dance floor workouts like "Love Sensation", "Hit And Run" and "Gotta Be".
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Since then Miquel's enjoyed an impressive list of albums on TSR, Record Shack, Hot Productions, Polydor, and other labels. Her single "So Many Men, So Little Time", produced by Ian Levine, scored well in Great Britain.
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These two women first came to national attention as the lead vocalists of the powerhouse multi platinum recording group Chic. Collectively they've earned gold and platinum albums as the signature voices on smash hits "Dance, Dance Dance (Yowsah, Yowsah, Yowsah)", "Everybody Dance", "Good Times", "Le Freak", and others.
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Patrick Hernandez, with a Spanish father and an Australian-Italian mother, was born in Paris. Like most singers/artists of his time Patrick started off by playing in bands, touring the provincial ballrooms and dance halls in South-west France.
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Please see Eruption Starring Precious Wilson for further information.
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Sabrina's international Top 5 breakthrough, were the smash hit single "Boys (Summertime Love)", which has sold more than 1,5 million copies to date worldwide, and "Hot Girl", which made the Top 10 in five European countries.
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Leroy Gomez is the founder of the great disco act Santa Esmeralda. During the 1970s he had huge succes with the single "Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood".
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