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Unlike some other stars of disco who faded as the music became less popular in the early 1980s, Summer was able to grow beyond the genre and segued to a pop-rock sound. She had one of her biggest hits in the 1980s with "She Works Hard For the Money", which became another anthem, this time for women's rights. Summer was the first black woman to ...
[133] Her early music was rooted in disco. She opted for a new wave sound in the early 1980s. She recorded a series of albums (1980's Warm Leatherette through 1982's Living My Life) backed by the Jamaica rhythm section duo Sly and Robbie. Her music during this era was described as a new wave hybrid of reggae, funk, pop, and rock. [7]
This is a list of artists primarily associated with the disco era of the 1970s and some of their most noteworthy disco hits. Numerous artists, not usually considered disco artists, implemented some of the styles and sounds of disco music, and are also included. This includes artists who have either been very important to the genre or have had a ...
Incomparable. The “Godmother of Soul” is one of the most famous Black American female singers ever. ... Rising to pop stardom in the early 1980s, “The Purple One” released 39 studio albums ...
Alyson Cambridge (born 1980): operatic soprano and classical music, jazz, and American popular song singer Cam'ron : Hip hop Mariah Carey (born 1969): R&B, pop, hip-hop, soul
This is a list of artists primarily associated with the disco era of the 1970s and some of their most noteworthy disco hits. Numerous artists, not usually considered disco artists, implemented some of the styles and sounds of disco music, and are also included.
Gibson was born in Brooklyn, New York, on August 31, 1970, the third of Diane (née Pustizzi) and Joseph Gibson's four daughters. [1] [9] [10] Her father, who enjoyed singing, was originally named Joseph Schultz and was abandoned by his mother as a boy; [11] his biological mother married a man with the surname Gibson before putting Joseph into an orphanage. [12]
Nu-disco is a 21st-century dance music genre associated with the renewed interest in 1970s and early 1980s disco, [130] mid-1980s Italo disco, and the synthesizer-heavy Euro disco aesthetics. [131] The moniker appeared in print as early as 2002, and by mid-2008 was used by record shops such as the online retailers Juno and Beatport. [132]