Hilary Blake

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Hilary Blake (born 1950 in Los Angeles , California , † July 2007 ibid), who appeared under the stage name Hilary, was a singer-songwriter from Los Angeles.

Career

Blake sang with madrigal groups at Shakespeare festivals in England. At the age of 11 she took acting lessons with Agnes Moorehead .

In 1978 she backed her free verse poetry with synthesizers and drum machines , the sound that is characteristic of her.

In 1982 she met producer Steve Hague . With him she produced the 12 "vinyl single Kinetic b / w" I Live " , which was released in a print run of 1000 copies on the record label Sirus Records . Kinetic was heard by listeners on Long Island radio station WLIR on January 2nd Voted "Screamer of the Week" in 1983, and was played on KROQ-FM radio and New York nightclubs in her hometown of Los Angeles, and the song I Live was broadcast on college radio stations .

In 1983 Blake released a four-song EP entitled Kinetic on the record label Backstreet Records . This EP was also produced by Hague. The song Kinetic is about her hope that understanding the changing cell structure of human beings would help them survive. With the song Drop Your Pants , Blake attempted to portray how ridiculous the fear of sex was in the United States. On August 4th 1983 the listeners of WLIR named Drop Your Pants as her second song "Screamer of the Week". This song was also mentioned in Wild Thing: Sex-Tips for Boys and Girls , the German edition of the sex education textbook The Guide to Getting it On , by Paul Joannides .

I Live was a song about "the ordinary - living in the house of your own making" that Blake found profound. Goose Step , ( English for goose step ) presented observations on Blake's fear of a revival of the Nazi party to.

Blake was buried in Westwood Memorial Park in Los Angeles .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ last.fm biography
  2. ↑ Trouser Press biography
  3. ↑ a b c d e Backstreet Records 1983 Press Release ( Memento from June 13, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ↑ a b c d e copy of the Press Release on a fan site ( Memento of the original from June 5, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was 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.disconrg.com
  5. ↑ a b WLIR & WDRE 92.7 FM Screamer & Shreiks of the Week Tribute Page
  6. ↑ Wild Thing: Sex-Tips for Boys and Girls, 2012, Chapter 26 Online
  7. ^ Hilary Blake in the Find a Grave database . Retrieved March 3, 2015.
personal data
SURNAME Blake, Hilary
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hilary
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American singer-songwriter
DATE OF BIRTH 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Los Angeles , California
DATE OF DEATH July 2007
Place of death los Angeles