patsy gallant
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Patsy Gallant (born August 15, 1948, Campbellton , New Brunswick , Canada ) is a Canadian pop singer and musical theater actress . Of Acadian ancestry, she has recorded and performed in both English and French . Successful beginnings in French [ edit source | editbeta ] Gallant released her first single in 1967, which earned her appearances on a number of television variety shows. She later performed at Montreal s Place des Arts with Charles Aznavour and shortly after, she assembled a team of young and talented creators including Yves Lapierre , Judi Richards , Denis Forcier, Jean-Guy Chapados and Ken Owen who composed and wrote for her in English. In 1971, Gallant co-starred on the weekly television variety show Smash presented by Télévision de Radio-Canada (the French arm of CBC Television). During the show, Gallant teamed up with singer-songwriter Christine Charbonneau who wrote most of the lyrics for her two major French albums that were produced by Columbia Records , Patsy Gallant (Tout va trop vite) in 1972 followed by Toi lenfant in 1974. Several of the songs including Tout va trop vite , Un jour comme les autres , Le lit qui craque , and Thank You Come Again (French version) climb the Quebec charts. Also found on the latter album is the original song Les femmes , a hit song which was covered in 1976 by Sheila in France. Towards the end of 1972, Gallant released Upon My Own , her first English album. Although her two French albums were hits in French Canada, the only song from this album to score a minor hit was Get That Ball . With her eye on the American market, Gallant recorded her 1974 album Power in Nashville, Tennessee . Although the album spawned four moderately popular singles with Save the Last Dance For Me , Make My Living , Doctors Orders and the title song Upon My Own , they were not a commercial breakthrough. Disco Diva [ edit source | editbeta ] Gallants greatest pop success came when she teamed up with producer and manager Ian Robertson for the 1976 album Are You Ready For Love , which featured the disco hit single "From New York to LA". The latter takes its melody from Gilles Vigneault s song " Mon Pays " and the English lyrics were written by Gene Williams. Gallant later recorded Mon Pays with its original lyrics by Vigneault. From New York to LA was Gallants only recording to attract notice outside Canada; it became a hit in many other countries such as the UK (#6), Ireland (#5), Australia (#10), the Netherlands (#15), Norway (#7), South Africa (#5) and Sweden (#17). Sugar Daddy and the albums title song Are You Ready for Love are also Top 20 Canadian hits that helped Gallant to win Juno Awards for Best Female Vocalist in 1976 and 1977. Although overlooked by radio in the US, From New York to LA and Sugar Daddy were played in American discos. Gallant followed up in 1977 with her French album Besoin damour , which includes a French rendition of Sugar Daddy . On the strength of her disco success, Gallant hosted her own variety show, The Patsy Gallant Show , which was produced and broadcast on CTV in 1978 and 1979. Gallant released the English album Will You Give Me Your Love and the French album Patsy Gallant et Star , both in 1978 on Attic Records, and has a hit with Stay a While With Me ( Aime-moi in French); she also released the English album Patsy! which contains the disco hit O Michel . Gallant then released a bilingual greatest hits package in early 1979, which included a rendition of the original Mon Pays . The English greatest hits album was reissued in 1995 on Attic Records with new remix of From New York to LA as well as another compilation, Tout va Trop Vite 1965-2005 in 2005. Achievement through musicals [ edit source | editbeta ] With the decline of disco, Gallants subsequent albums did not sell well. After her 1984 album Take Another Look , she retreated from the music business, and in the late 1980s began taking roles in musical theatre. She has appeared in productions of Cats , Nunsense , a stage biography of Édith Piaf , and played the role of Stella Spotlight in the French hit musical, Starmania in Paris France which ran for eight years in the 1990s. Ironically, Luc Plamondon , the creator of Starmania , wanted Gallant to play Stella in the original stage production in the 1970s; but owing to Gallants busy schedule at the time, her managers did not even tell her about Starmania , and the role of Stella Spotlight in the original production went to Diane Dufresne . She also had a brief stint as the stepmother in Cindy , a musical based on Cinderella , also written by Plamondon. Gallant married (and later divorced) composer pianist Dwayne Ford, who has appeared on many of Gallants records, and who produced her Take Another Look album. The couple had a son together, Jason. After living in Paris for eight years, Gallant returned to Canada in 2005 and released the compilation album Tout va trop vite . The album contained a number of her biggest French hits, early recordings from the 1960s, lost disco-era songs such as Its Got to Be You , and a new re-recording of Sugar Daddy . Gallant has more recently recorded a duet with the French rap group, Treizième Étage, called Faut pas lâcher . The song appeared on the groups album LAsphalte dans mon district (2006). Her most recent single Coeur de velours was released in July 2010.
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| 国籍 | 加拿大 |
| 地区 | 欧美 |
| 所属公司 | 未确定 |
| 类似歌手 | 相似艺人 |
| Alias | patsy gallant |
| Extra | patsy gallant |
| Name | patsy gallant |
| 原始名称 | Patsy Gallant |
| 名称 | patsy gallant |
| 精选上位词 | 歌手 |