Alicia Bridges

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Alicia Bridges (born June 15, 1953 in Charlotte , North Carolina ) is an American singer and lyricist. At the height of the disco wave, in 1978 she had a worldwide hit with I Love the Nightlife (Disco Round) .

Career

Alicia Bridges first worked as a bank clerk and saleswoman before she gained her first musical experience in the rock band Zachary Ridge. In 1977 she signed a contract with Polydor as a soloist, the following year her debut album Alicia Bridges was released with the millionaire hit I Love the Nightlife (Disco Round) . The song became a disco classic and received a Grammy nomination for best female R&B vocal performance.

Bridges then tried to build on this success, but the follow-up single Body Heat only reached a meager number 86 in the USA. Her second album, Play It as It Lays, also flopped. Further efforts, including the 1984 LP Hocus Pocus , were unsuccessful and Bridges went down in disco history as a one-hit wonder . In 1994 I Love The Nightlife (Disco Round) gained new popularity with the Australian film Priscilla - Queen of the Desert . The film The Last Days of Disco , released four years later, also includes the song.

Bridges lived in San Francisco for a few years before moving to Atlanta to work as a DJ at The Eagle and The Sportspage clubs. In 2006 she founded the company Alicia Bridges Music Publications and released three albums with new and old songs, some remixed.

Private

Alicia Bridges has been an openly lesbian for many years.

Discography

Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Singles
I Love the Nightlife (Disco 'Round)
  DE 35 03/12/1979 (5 weeks)
  UK 32 11/11/1978 (10 weeks)
  US 5 07/08/1978 (31 weeks)
Body heat
  US 86 04/07/1979 (2 weeks)
I Love the Nightlife (Disco 'Round) (Remix)
  UK 61 10/08/1994 (2 weeks)

Albums

  • 1978: Alicia Bridges (Polydor)
  • 1979: Play It as It Lays (BGO / Polydor)
  • 1984: Hocus Pocus (Second Wave)

Compilations

  • 2002: I Love The Nightlife - The Collection (Spectrum)
  • 2006: This Girl Don't Care (Alicia Bridges Music)
  • 2007: Say it Sister (Alicia Bridges Music)
  • 2008: FauxDiva XX (Alicia Bridges Music)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b press release, CDBaby . Cdbaby.com. Retrieved September 25, 2010.
  2. ^ The Awards Insider, Los Angeles Times . Theenvelope.latimes.com. Retrieved September 25, 2010.
  3. ↑ Article on Bridges, BR Online . Br-online.de. Archived from the original on April 9, 2009. Retrieved September 25, 2010.
  4. ↑ News . Discoround.com. Archived from the original on April 27, 2007. Retrieved September 25, 2010.
  5. ↑ Alice Echols: Hot Stuff: Disco and the Remaking of American Culture. WW Norton & Company, 2010, ISBN 978-0-393-07701-8 , p. 103 ( limited preview in Google book search).
  6. ↑ Chart sources: DE UK US

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personal data
SURNAME Bridges, Alicia
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American singer and lyricist
DATE OF BIRTH June 15, 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Charlotte , North Carolina