Angela Bofill

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Angela Bofill

Angela Tomasa Bofill (born May 2, 1954 in the Bronx , New York , New York ) is an American R&B singer. From the late 1970s onwards, she had some successes in the American R&B and dance charts, including her biggest hit, Too Tough, from 1983. However, she was denied the big breakthrough.

Life

Angela Bofill, daughter of a Cuban father and a Puerto Rican mother, studied at the Manhattan School of Music . First she sang as a soloist in the New York Dance Theater of Harlem Chorus . Through the mediation of Dave Valentin , the producers Dave Grusin and Larry Rosen released Bofill's first album Angie with the hit This Time I'll Be Sweeter in 1978 on GRP Records . The sensitive mix of R&B, soul, jazz, Latin and pop quickly made her famous. She “acted with an impressive two and a half octave voice and showed her preference for Latin American rhythms.” Until 1985, mostly produced by Narada Michael Walden , her regular hits in the R&B charts. The highlight was the 1983 single Too Tough from the album of the same name, which reached number 5 in the R&B and number 2 in the dance charts. In the same year she was nominated for the American Music Award for best R&B singer . For the album Tell Me Tomorrow she worked with the fusion pioneer and producer George Duke . In 1988, after a break, her second biggest success followed: I Just Wanna Stop climbed to number 12. After that, she did not have another hit. Two albums in the 1990s were barely successful. In the next few years she mainly appeared in stage shows such as God Don't Like Ugly or What a Man Wants, What a Man Needs . She has also worked with Dizzy Gillespie , Cannonball Adderley , Herbie Hancock and Stanley Clarke, among others, throughout her career . In 1995, she worked as a background singer on the album Take Me Higher by Diana Ross to hear.

Bofill had to retire in 2006 due to a stroke that caused left-sided paralysis and damage to the language center. A benefit concert was held weeks later so that the uninsured singer could pay her medical bills. The following year she suffered another stroke. During lengthy therapy, Bofill did not give interviews again until November 2009. In May 2010, the show The Angela Bofill Experience followed , in which Bofill's songs were interpreted by the singer Maysa . Bofill herself was also back on stage for the first time, but only gave anecdotes about her songs due to her still impaired health.

Discography

GRP
  • 1978: Angie
  • 1979: Angel of the Night
Arista
  • 1981: Something About You
  • 1983: Too Tough
  • 1983: teaser
  • 1984: Let Me Be the One
  • 1985: Tell Me Tomorrow
Capitol
  • 1988: intuition
Jive
  • 1993: I Wanna Love Somebody
Shanachie
  • 1996: Love in Slow Motion
Black Angel
  • 2006: Live from Manila

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c portrait (Soulwalking)
  2. ^ Short biography , Taurus Press Verlag
  3. ^ The Awards Insider , Los Angeles Times
  4. ↑ Singer Angela Bofill Suffers Stroke; Benefit Concert Planned in New Jersey . In: Jet magazine . tape 109 , no. 7 , February 20, 2006, ISSN  0021-5996 , p. 46 ( online in Google Book Search).
  5. ↑ News page from Bofill's official homepage ( Memento of the original from September 21, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.angelabofill.com
personal data
SURNAME Bofill, Angela
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bofill, Angela Tomasa (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American R&B singer
DATE OF BIRTH May 2, 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Borough of Bronx , New York , New York