Julie Felix

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Julie Felix (1967)
Julie Felix (1967)
Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Albums
Changes
  UK 27 09/10/1966 (4 weeks)
Singles
If I Could (El Condor Pasa)
  UK 19th 04/18/1970 (11 weeks)
Heaven is here
  UK 22nd 10/17/1970 (8 weeks)

Julie Ann Felix (born June 14, 1938 in Santa Barbara , California - † March 22, 2020 in Chorleywood , Hertfordshire ) was an American folk singer. In the second half of the 1960s she was one of the most popular folk song interpreters in Great Britain .

Life

Julie Ann Felix was born in California in 1938 as the daughter of a Mexican aircraft engineer who had also worked as a musician; she also had Indian ancestors. Felix studied drama at the University of California near Santa Barbara for four years . After hitchhiking around Europe from 1962 to 1964, Felix stayed in Great Britain, where she received a record deal with Decca Records in 1964 . On her singles and LPs , she sang covers of Bob Dylan and Woody Guthrie songs, among others . She became so popular through concerts and television appearances that she was named Britain's First Lady of Folk by the London Times . From 1966 she was regularly on the BBC television show The Frost Report by David Frost to see; she was also the first "pop singer" that year to sing at Westminster Abbey on the occasion of the 900th anniversary celebrations . After moving from Decca to Fontana Records , her long-playing record Changes made it onto the British album charts .

In 1967 Brian Epstein engaged her for joint live performances with Georgie Fame ; the show Fame & Felix at London's Saville Theater was extended for another week after one week. The then unknown Cat Stevens appeared as a supporting act . In the same year, Felix was seen on German television in the Beat Club on May 1st, and in September 1968 she performed at the International Essen Song Festival .

From 1968 to 1970 she had her own BBC television shows (Once More With Felix), in which she presented guests such as Jimmy Page , Dusty Springfield , Richard Harris or Leonard Cohen . In 1969 she was one of the artists at the Isle of Wight Festival . A year later she was the first female artist to release a single on Mickie Most's RAK label , If I Could (El Condor Pasa) (catalog number RAK 101), which entered the top 20 of the single charts. Her first long-playing record for RAK, Clotho's Web, featured John Paul Jones , Danny Thompson and Cozy Powell , among others . Her second RAK single, the hot chocolate song Heaven Is Here, also made it into the British Top 30.

Julie Felix

Even after her heyday she published records regularly; in Norway, where she moved in the late 1970s, and Sweden, she celebrated further hit parades. After a long stay in her native California in the 1980s, during which she made no further recordings, she took part in a peace march through South America at the end of that decade, which inspired her to write new songs. She moved back to Hertfordshire , England , where she last lived and was involved in various human rights groups. In addition, she continued to give concerts in the 2000s. On June 14, 2008, a concert was held in Gateshead for her 70th birthday.

Julie Felix died at the age of 81 after a brief illness.

Web links

Commons : Julie Felix  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Charts UK
  2. ↑ Julie Felix The Sage Gateshead. In: Vintagerock's weblog. August 16, 2008, accessed March 24, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Felix, Julie
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Felix, Julie Ann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American folk rock singer
DATE OF BIRTH June 14, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Santa Barbara (California)
DATE OF DEATH March 22, 2020
Place of death Chorleywood , Hertfordshire