Jacques Morali

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Jacques Morali

Jacques Morali (born July 4, 1947 in Paris ; † November 15, 1991 ibid) was a French music producer from the disco era , who made a name for himself above all as the founder and driving force behind the disco band Village People .

Live and act

Morali started his music career in a record shop at the Paris-Orly airport in France and eventually became the right-hand man of Hervé Vilard , Michèle Torr and Christophe. Through José Eber, a French star hairdresser who counted stars like Elizabeth Taylor and Cher among his customers in Beverly Hills , California , he quickly became familiar with the Philly sound of the Philadelphia International Records , which was prevalent at the time , and was enthusiastic about the music in the 1970s. He moved to the United States and came to Sigma Sound Studios , where many Phillysound classics were recorded. During this time he co-produced and wrote hits like Brazil (1975), The Best Disco In Town (1976), Life Is Music (1977), African Queens (1977), Quiet Village (1977) and American Generation (1978) for the Ritchie Family , a female trio.

1975 began the partnership with Henri Belolo , the owner of the Scorpio Record label in Paris. When Morali attended the dazzling and fun-loving costume party of the gay disco Les Mouches in Greenwich Village in New York , he was impressed by the macho costumes of the party guests. Based on this experience, he had the idea of ​​putting together a group of singers and dancers, each of whom represented a different one of those gay fantasy characters. After Morali was able to sign a license agreement with Casablanca Records , Belolo got on as a partner. Village People landed numerous hits like San Francisco (1977), YMCA (1978), Macho Man (1978), In the Navy (1979) and Go West (1979). In 1980 the Village People film Can't Stop the Music was co-produced with Belolo and Allan Carr . The film was a fictional biography about the individual characters of the Village People. Morali was portrayed as Jack Morell by Steve Guttenberg . The film was a commercial failure and was panned by critics.

Between 1974 and 1982 Morali produced more than 65 musical albums. Sigma Sound Studios had reserved a recording studio especially for him. This productive phase ended with the end of the disco era. In 1984 he returned with hits for Break Machine and Eartha Kitt .

In the mid-1980s, Morali became infected with the HI virus . In 1991 he died of AIDS at the age of 44 .

literature

  • Axel Schock, Manuela Kay: Out in the cinema! The lesbian-gay film dictionary. Querverlag, Berlin, 2003, ISBN 978-3-89656-090-2 .

Web links

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  1. ↑ Interview with José Eber. (No longer available online.) In: Unscripted. Archived from the original on September 27, 2009 ; Retrieved September 23, 2009 . 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 / unscripted.ca
  2. ↑ Olaf Benzinger: Rock hymns: Das Lexikon. Bärenreiter, 2002, ISBN 978-3-7618-1567-0 , p. 367
personal data
SURNAME Morali, Jacques
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French music producer
DATE OF BIRTH 4th July 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris
DATE OF DEATH November 15, 1991
Place of death Paris