Tina Charles (singer)

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Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Albums
Heart 'n' Soul
  UK 35 
silver
silver
December 3rd, 1977 (7 weeks)
Singles
I Love to Love (But My Baby Loves to Dance)
  DE 6th March 22, 1976 (22 weeks)
  AT 20th 07/15/1976 (4 weeks)
  UK 1Template: Infobox chart placements / maintenance / NR1 link 
gold
gold
02/07/1976 (12 weeks)
Love me like a lover
  DE 13 06/28/1976 (13 weeks)
  UK 31 05/01/1976 (4 weeks)
Dance Little Lady Dance
  DE 8th October 18, 1976 (16 weeks)
  UK 6th 
silver
silver
08/21/1976 (13 weeks)
Dr. Love
  DE 20th 02/07/1977 (11 weeks)
  UK 4th 
silver
silver
December 04, 1976 (10 weeks)
date
  UK 27 05/14/1977 (6 weeks)
Fallin 'in Love in Summertime
  DE 39 08/22/1977 (1 week)
Love Bug / Sweets for My Sweet (Medley)
  UK 26th October 29, 1977 (4 weeks)
I'll Go Where the Music Takes Me
  UK 27 03/11/1978 (8 weeks)
I Love to Love (Remix)
  DE 5 07/20/1987 (16 weeks)
  AT 4th 09/15/1987 (14 weeks)
  CH 5 08/16/1987 (10 weeks)
  UK 67 08/30/1986 (6 weeks)
Dance Little Lady '87
  DE 20th 09/28/1987 (11 weeks)
  AT 25th 11/15/1987 (4 weeks)

Tina Charles (born March 10, 1954 in London ; actually Tina Hoskins ) is a British pop and disco singer.

Career

Charles began her career as a live singer in 1968 in a soldiers' bar in Ruislip near London . Just a year later she released her first recordings, including Good to Be Alive, sung with the then unknown Elton John , on CBS, and appeared as a singer on the TV show The Two Ronnie's .

Her first band, Northern Lights , followed, in which she first met Martin Jay. The third member was Nicky North. They released four unsuccessful singles in 1969 and 1970 and separated again. In the following two years the band was called Charles Wild Honey , after which she worked solo as a studio singer again. In addition to her own publications, she worked as an interpreter of cover versions of current hits in an album series called Top of the Pops .

In 1974, again with Martin Jay, the studio band Airbus emerged, which shortly thereafter renamed itself 5000 Volts and was able to land the number one hit "I'm on Fire" under this name. Although Charles had sung the song and the follow-up single Motion Man , she was not a permanent member of the band.

So she pursued her solo career, for which she was able to win the successful disco producer Biddu . With You Set My Heart on Fire she has not yet had any success in Europe, but a disco hit in the USA. The second release, I Love to Love (But My Baby Loves to Dance) , became a European hit in the spring of 1976 and was number 1 in her home country for three weeks . The song sold 26 million times worldwide.

The following singles Love Me Like a Lover , Dance Little Lady Dance and Dr. Love were all further big hits in the same year, reaching high chart positions. An album called Dance Little Lady went largely unnoticed despite the many hits.

In the following year she could not build on the very big placements, but with Rendezvous , Fallin 'in Love in Summertime and the medley Love Bug / Sweets for My Sweet , the latter a cover of the Searchers hit, other top 40 Hits and the corresponding album Heart 'n' Soul reached the top 40 in her home country. In June 1977 she gave birth to a son, after which she put her music career in the background for the time being. She had her last chart hit in March 1978 with I'll Go Where Your Music Takes Me . When their marriage fell apart after two years, she returned to the recording studio, but the 1980 album Just One Smile was a flop.

In the mid-1980s, her music returned to public interest. A remix of their greatest hit I Love to Love produced by Sanny X reached the top 10 again in Europe and Dance Little Lady was subsequently able to place itself again in some countries, but it did not result in a second career for Tina Charles.

In August 2006, Sanny X's song Higher , on which he brought in Tina Charles as a guest singer, was a number 5 hit on the US Billboard Dance Charts .

Discography

Albums

  • I Love to Love (1976, UK:silversilver)
  • Dance Little Lady (1976, UK:silversilver)
  • Heart 'n' Soul (1977)
  • Tina Sings (1977)
  • Greatest Hits (1978)
  • Just One Smile (1980)
  • Listen 2 the Music (2008)

Singles

  • Nothing in the World (1969)
  • In the Middle of the Day (1969)
  • Good to Be Alive (1969, background singer: Elton John )
  • Fly Away (with Airbus , 1974)
  • Bye Love (with 5000 volts , 1975)
  • I'm on Fire (with 5000 volts , 1975)
  • Motion Man (with 5000 volts , 1975)
  • You Set My Heart on Fire (1975)
  • I Love to Love (But My Baby Loves to Dance) (1976)
  • Love Me Like a Lover (1976)
  • Dance Little Lady Dance (1976)
  • I Can't Dance to That Music You're Playin ' (1976)
  • Dr. Love (1976)
  • Hold Me (1976)
  • Rendezvous (1977)
  • Fallin 'in Love in Summertime (1977)
  • Love Bug / Sweets for My Sweet (Medley, 1977)
  • I'll Go Where the Music Takes Me (1978)
  • I Love to Love (Remix, 1986)
  • Dance Little Lady '87 (1987)
  • Higher (Sanny X feat. Tina Charles, 2005)
  • I Love to Love (feat. Traumton, 2014)

Web links

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Chart sources: DE AT CH UK
  2. ↑ Music Sales Awards: UK
  3. ↑ a b Tina Charles - Biography ( Memento of March 27, 2009 in the Internet Archive ), LetsSingIt, July 7, 2006
  4. ↑ Higher (Sanny X feat. Tina Charles) in the US charts
personal data
SURNAME Charles, Tina
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hoskins, Tina (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British pop and disco singer
DATE OF BIRTH March 10, 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH London