"That's why I don't have that jealousy issue that a lot of artists have. "I have always loved to listen to people sing and never thought of myself as a good singer," said Holloway, who had the range and the physique but none of the grand airs of a diva. Two years ago, Swizz Beatz and Alicia Keys sampled "We're Getting Stronger (The Longer We Stay Together)", from Holloway's first Gold Mind album, to create the disco-flavoured hit "Million Dollar Bill" for Whitney Houston. In 1999, she contributed a version of "Like A Prayer" to the Virgin Voices: A Tribute to Madonna album.
Nevertheless, she made the most of the opportunity her heightened profile afforded, only taking a break in 1996 when she had a quadruple by-pass operation. While the legal matter was nearing settlement, there was talk of Holloway contributing to other Black Box tracks but she held out for a bigger fee and was undercut by Martha Wash of The Weather Girls. What really filled up the box was when Black Box put somebody else up there saying it was them. "What I didn't understand was they never wanted to pay me. "When sampling first came out, it was OK," she said. Holloway survived the disco backlash of the early '80s and had minor hits with "Crash Goes Love" in 1984 and the house track "So Sweet" in 1987, before the Black Box imbroglio introduced her to a new generation of club-goers. And the vamp was always the part that made the song." "That's when the vamp started," she said. Yet, as the track evolved, she began putting her unique vocal stamp on it, adlibbing and occasionally letting rip. "I wondered how on earth I was going to sing that fast and that long," she recalled. Working at Sigma Sound Studios in Philadelphia with the producer, songwriter and guitarist Norman Harris, and several of the session musicians associated with Philly Soul, she was at the forefront of the '70s phenomenon when she cut the epic "Hit And Run", whose Walter Gibbons 12in disco mix clocked in at 11 minutes. In April 1976 she signed to Gold Mind, a subsidiary of Salsoul, the New York label owned by the Cayre brothers that became a powerhouse of disco. In 1980, the American disco diva Loleatta Holloway topped the US dance charts with two Dan Hartman compositions, 'Relight My Fire', latercovered by Take That with Lulu reprising her part, and most.
Discover all Loleatta Holloways music connections, watch videos, listen to music, discuss and download. Unfortunately, Aware couldn't cope with the demand for the single and promptly went out of business. Loleatta Holloway - Samples, Covers and Remixes on WhoSampled. With Smith, she recorded two soulful albums, Loleatta (1973) and Cry To Me (1975), whose tearjerker of a title track, written by Sam Dees, made the R&B Top 10 and crossed over into the lower reaches of the US pop charts. Loleatta Holloway (prononc en anglais : lolit hlwe), ne le 5 novembre 1946 Chicago et morte le 21 mars 2011, est une. Her performance caught the attention of Michael Thevis, who signed her to Aware, his Atlanta-based company. The same year, she joined the cast of Don't Bother Me, I Can't Cope, a musical about the African-American experience written by fellow Chicagoan Micki Grant.
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