- Dead Disco
Dead Disco are a British indie girl group whose style has been likened to that of Gwen Stefani and Alison Goldfrapp. - Donna Summer
Donna Summer (born LaDonna Adrian Gaines, on December 31, 1948) is a legendary American singer, songwriter, and artist, best known for a string of dance hits in the 1970s that earned her the title "Queen of Disco" and as one of the few disco-based artists to have longevity on the charts into the late-1980s. Though she's notable for her disco hits, Summer's repertoire has expanded to include R&B, soul, funk, rock, pop and gospel. - Alice Cooper
Alice Cooper (born Vincent Damon Furnier, February 4, 1948), is a rock singer, songwriter and musician whose career spans four decades. With a stage show that featured guillotines, electric chairs, fake blood and boa constrictors, Cooper drew equally from heavy metal, horror movies and vaudeville to create a theatrical brand of rock music that would come to be known as Shock rock. - Diana Ross
Diana Ross (born Diane Ernestine Earle Ross on March 26, 1944) is an American singer and actress, whose musical repertoire spans R&B, soul, disco, jazz, and pop. Ross first gained prominence as lead of the successful girl group The Supremes, before establishing a successful solo career in 1970. During the 1970s and 1980s, Ross became one of the most successful female artists of the rock era, also crossing over into film, television and Broadway. - Barry White
Barry Eugene White (born Barrence Eugene Carter, -) was a Grammy Award winning American record producer, songwriter and singer responsible for the creation of numerous hit soul and disco songs. He released 106 gold and 41 platinum albums, 20 gold singles and ten platinum singles. All inclusive, record sales of White's music with singles, albums, compilation usage and paid digital downloads as a singer, … - Miss Kittin
Miss Kittin is an electronica vocalist and DJ. At age 22 she began DJing, spinning records in France, Moscow and Chicago with Mike Dearborn. Soon after she met DJ Hell in Marseille who wanted her to record for his International DJ Gigolo label. She presented him with the EP "Champagne" that she recorded with The Hacker. Miss Kittin & The Hacker released "First Album" in 2001. Several tracks, such as "1982" and "Frank Sinatra", … - Chaka Khan
Chaka Khan (born March 23, 1953) is an American singer known for her 1984 cover of Prince's "I Feel For You", for her smash hit "I'm Every Woman" and as a member of the funk band Rufus, with whom she recorded the legendary soul record "Ain't Nobody". In her career she has earned many accolades, including eight Grammy awards. Though regarded an R&B singer, she has in fact explored numerous musical genres including funk, disco, jazz, ballads, hip hop, adult contemporary, … - Gloria Gaynor
Gloria Gaynor (born Gloria Fowles September 7, 1949) is an American singer, best-known for the disco era hits "I Will Survive" (Hot 100 #1, 1979), "Never Can Say Goodbye" (Hot 100 #9, 1974), and "I Am What I Am" (Hot 100 #82, 1983). She was born in Newark, New Jersey. - Sarah Brightman
Sarah Brightman is an English classical crossover soprano, actress and dancer. Brightman debuted as a dancer in troupes such as Hot Gossip and later released a string of disco singles. She achieved greater fame as a musical theatre performer and partner of theatre composer Andrew Lloyd Webber, originating several roles, including Christine Daaé in "The Phantom of the Opera". Her 1984 marriage to Lloyd Webber attracted active tabloid coverage. - Todd Terry
Todd Terry (born 12 November 1966 in Brooklyn, New York) is an American DJ and music producer and remixer, one of the producers who helped to define New York's house music during the 1980s. - Giorgio Moroder
Giorgio Moroder (born Giovanni Giorgio Moroder on April 26 1940 in Ortisei, Italy) is an Academy Award-winning Italian record producer, songwriter and performer, whose groundbreaking work with synthesizers during the 1970s was a significant influence on new wave, techno and electronic music in general. Particularly well known are Donna Summer's disco hits produced by Moroder, including "I Feel Love". - Sophie Ellis-Bextor
Sophie Michelle Ellis-Bextor (born 10 April 1979) is a multi-platinum selling English pop singer and songwriter. Her music is a mixture of mainstream pop, disco and 1980s electronic influences. - Joey Negro
Joey Negro is the pseudonym of British DJ and house music producer Dave Lee, born on the Isle of Wight. - Larry Levan
Larry Levan (born Lawrence Philpot, July 20, 1954 - died November 8, 1992) stands at the crossroads of disco, house and garage. He was the legendary DJ who for more than 10 years held court at the New York City night club Paradise Garage. The club has been described as the prototype of the modern dance club, because it was entirely focused on dancing, and was the first to put the DJ at the center of attention. - Frankie Valli
Frankie Valli (born May 3, 1934 in the First Ward of Newark, New Jersey as Francis Stephen Castelluccio) is best known as the lead singer of The Four Seasons, a music act of the 1960s, which continued from then to the 1970s disco scene to the present day. Valli scored over 25 Top-40 hits with The Four Seasons, a handful of Top-40 hits dubbed as a solo act in the late 1960s, one dubbed as "The Wonder Who?" in 1965 and again in the mid to late 1970s. - Kurtis Blow
Kurtis Blow (born Curtis Walker, 9 August 1959, Harlem, New York) is one of the first commercially successful rappers and the first to sign with a major label. "The Breaks", a single from his 1980 debut album, is an early hip hop classic. - Kelley Polar
Kelley Polar, originally a classical violist (he studied at Juilliard), is an alternative dance vocalist and producer who originally provided strings for EPs by Metro Area. His first album, "Love Songs of the Hanging Gardens", contains house, disco and pop elements. He is the brother of Blevin Blectum. As Mike Kelley, he is the violist for the Apple Hill Chamber Players. - Greg Wilson
Greg Wilson is a DJ and producer predominantly associated with the early electro scenes in Manchester. He was born in Wallasey in Merseyside in 1960, and began DJing at the age of 15 with friend Derek Kelsey (later known as DJ Derek Kaye). To begin with, Wilson was known for playing jazz funk records with residencies in clubs in New Brighton between 1975 and 1980. At the start of the eighties, Wilson moved to a residency at the legendary Wigan Pier, … - Glenn Hughes
Glenn Hughes (July 18, 1950 - March 4, 2001) was the original "Biker" character in the disco group Village People from 1977 to 1996 and one of the group's straight members. He graduated Class of 1968 from Chaminade High School. He was interested in motorcycles, and was working as a toll collector in Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel when he responded to an advertisement by composer Jacques Morali seeking "macho" singers and dancers. - Candi Staton
Candi Staton (pron.) (born Canzetta Maria Staton 13 March 1940, Hanceville, Alabama) is an American gospel singer. She is best known for her 1976 disco hit "Young Hearts Run Free", and dance music hit "You Got The Love". - Loleatta Holloway
Loleatta Holloway (born November 5 1946 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American singer, mainly known for disco songs such as "Dreamin'" and "Love Sensation" (both of which have been greatly sampled). - Arthur Russell
Charles Arthur Russell Jr. (1952 - April 4, 1992) was an American cellist, composer, singer, and disco artist. While he found the most success as a dance music artist, Russell's career bridged New York's downtown, rock, and dance music scenes; his collaborators ranged from Philip Glass to David Byrne to Nicky Siano. Relatively unknown during his life, a series of reissues and posthumous releases has raised his profile in recent years. - Amanda Lear
Amanda Lear is a French model, adult model, polyglot, painter, novelist, actress, media personality, composer, lyricist, singer and gay icon who was a Disco Queen in Continental Europe, the Eastern Bloc and most other parts of the world in the mid 1970s to the early 1980s. - Manu Dibango
Manu Dibango is a Cameroonian saxophonist and vibraphone player. He developed a musical style fusing jazz and traditional Cameroonian music. He is a member of the Yabassi ethnic group, though his mother was a Duala. He has collaborated with many musicians, including Fania All Stars, Fela Kuti, Herbie Hancock, Bill Laswell, Bernie Worrell, Ladysmith Black Mambazo, and Sly and Robbie. In 1998 he recorded the album "CubAfrica" with cuban artist Eliades Ochoa. - Cheryl Lynn
Cheryl Lynn (born Lynda Cheryl Smith, 11 March 1957, in Los Angeles, California) is a known disco, R&B and soul singer, who scored fame then success beginning in the late 1970s and throughout the 1980s. - Van McCoy
Van Allen Clinton McCoy (January 6, 1940 - July 6, 1979) was a music producer, musician, songwriter, and orchestra conductor most famous for his massive 1975 disco hit "The Hustle", which is still played on dance floors today, almost 30 years after his death. He is also notable for producing such recording artists as Gladys Knight and the Pips, The Stylistics, Aretha Franklin, Brenda & The Tabulations, David Ruffin and Peaches & Herb and Stacy Lattisaw. - Tom Moulton
Tom Moulton (b. 1940) is an American record producer and originator of the remix, the breakdown section, and the 12-inch single vinyl format. He has humbly maintained that the last two innovations were pure accidents. Perhaps contrary to expectation, Mr. Moulton's early successes in "mixing down" dance records were the result of insistently "taking away" elements from the original multi-track. - Patrick Hernandez
Patrick Hernandez is a French singer who had a huge worldwide hit with "Born to Be Alive" in 1979. Hernandez was born in Le Blanc-Mesnil, France, to a Spanish father and a half Austrian and half Italian mother. Growing up in the 1960s, he became interested in music, and toured dancehalls and ballrooms of southern France with a number of groups over the next decade. Hernandez met his music partner Hervé Tholance, an arranger, guitarist and vocalist, during that period. - Gino Soccio
Gino Soccio is a disco producer born in 1955 in Montreal. His only US Hot 100 entry was the #48 "Dancer" in 1979, but he did hit #1 on the US Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart twice ("Dancer" / "Dance To Dance" in 1979 and "Try It Out" / "Hold Tight" in 1981 - six weeks each). He also assembled and produced the disco studio group Witch Queen, best known for their Top 10 Dance hit "Bang A Gong" / "All Right Now" in 1979. - Ashley Beedle
Ashley Beedle (born 25 November, 1962, in Hemel Hempstead) is a British disc jockey and record producer. Beedle made the leap from music lover to DJ in the early 1980s when British disc jockeys started playing disco and house music records over (Jamaican) soundsystems. London's melting pot of cultures provided the young Beedle with a wide interest in reggae, soul music, techno, and jazz. Beedle's first big musical project, Black Science Orchestra, … - Amii Stewart
Amy Paulette Stewart (born January 29 1956, in Washington D.C.) is an American Contemporary R&B/Disco/Dance-pop singer, dancer and actress. Stewart is the aunt of actress/singer Sinitta who, in turn, is the daughter of actress/singer Miquel Brown, famous for the disco tune "So Many Men, So Little Time". - Patrick Cowley
Patrick Joseph Cowley (b October 19, 1950 Buffalo, New York - d November 12, 1982 San Francisco, California) was a Disco and Hi-NRG dance music composer and recording artist. He recorded in a similar style to Giorgio Moroder, and is often credited with pioneering electronic dance music. Born in Buffalo, Cowley moved to San Francisco in 1971, beginning an intensive study of the synthesizer. Working at the City Disco as a light technician, … - Kirsty Hawkshaw
Kirsty Hawkshaw (born October 1969) is a British female dance/electronica/house artist and songwriter who is known for her signature angelic vocals. Hawkshaw was born in London, England in 1969 and is the daughter of British disco producer Alan Hawkshaw. Her father and her love for dance music inspired Hawkshaw to pursue a career in music. At a rave event in 1991 she was noticed by producers Ian Munro, Kevin Dobbs and Nigel Walton, … - Dj Friction
DJ Friction is the stage name of hip hop and jungle/drum and bass DJ and producer Martin Welzer. He is also a member of the German hip hop group Freundeskreis. He discovered his affinity for disco music in the early 1980s. Today he identifies his roots as "black" music, meaning Prince and Michael Jackson as well as Steve 'Silk' Hurley. Working as a DJ in the late 1980s in and around his hometown Stuttgart, Friction concentrated solely on hip hop, … - Johnnie Taylor
Johnnie Harrison Taylor (born May 5, 1937, Crawfordsville, Arkansas; died May 31, 2000, Dallas, Texas) was an American vocalist in a wide variety of genres, from gospel, blues and soul to pop, doo-wop and disco. Taylor had one release, "Somewhere to Lay My Head", on Chicago's Chance Records in the 1950s, as part of the doo-wop group Five Echoes. His singing was strikingly close to that of Sam Cooke, and he was hired to take Cooke's place in Cooke's gospel group, … - Tina Charles
Tina Charles (born Tina Hoskins, 10 March 1954, Whitechapel, London) is an English singer, who achieved success as a disco artist in the mid to late 1970s. - Ron Hardy
Ron Hardy (?-1991) was a DJ that was instrumental in the development of House Music. An innovator and originator of the genre, he is highly regarded not only for his iconic performances at the Music Box, a Chicago house music club, but for his pioneering edits and mixes of disco, soul, funk and early house music (sometimes known as Chicago Deep House). - Nicky Siano
Nicky Siano (18/03/1955 -)was born in Brooklyn, New York. In 1972 at the age of 17 he opened the Gallery in SoHo, Manhattan with his older brother Joe. The gallery provided Nicky with his second djing residency, having djed at the Roundtable nightclub during 1972, a gig he got with the help of Robin Lord. It was at the gallery that Nicky met David Rodriguez who would become his mentor and close friend. - Gérard Depardieu
Gérard Xavier Marcel Depardieu, CQ (born 27 December 1948,) is an Academy Award-nominated French actor. His most significant English-language productions include "Green Card" with Andie MacDowell and "1492: Conquest of Paradise". Depardieu was born in Châteauroux, Indre to Anne Jeanne Joséphe "Eliette" (née Marillier) and René Maxime Lionel Depardieu, a metal worker. He first married Elisabeth (née Guignot), with whom he had two children. - Herbie Mann
Herbert Jay Solomon (April 16, 1930 - July 1, 2003), better known as Herbie Mann, was an American jazz flautist and important early practitioner of world music. Herbie Mann was born in Brooklyn, New York. Early in his career, he also played saxophones and clarinets, but Mann was among the first jazz musicians to specialize on the flute and was perhaps jazz music's preeminent flautist during the 1960s.
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