Tina Charles (singer)
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 Soldatenbar in Ruislip near London. Just one year later she released her first recordings, including the sung together with the then unknown Elton John Good to Be Alive at CBS and performed as a singer on the television show The Two Ronnie's.
This was followed by her first band, the Northern Lights, in which they met for the first time with Martin Jay. The third member was Nicky North. They released 1969/70 unsuccessfully four singles and parted again. In the following two years, the band was called by Charles Wild Honey, then again, she worked solo as a studio singer. Besides our own publications, she worked among other things as a performer of cover versions of current hits in an album series called Top of the Pops.
Was founded in 1974, again with Martin Jay, the studio band Airbus, which shortly afterwards renamed to 5000 Volts and under this name could land the number one hit " I'm on Fire". Although Charles had sung the song and also the consequence Single Motion Man, it was not a permanent member of the band.
So she continued to pursue her solo career, for which she won the successful disco producer Biddu. With You Set My Heart on Fire they had in Europe, although still no success, but a Discohit in the USA. Already the second release I Love to Love (But My Baby Loves to Dance) in 1976 was a Europe-wide hit and in her home she was so three weeks at No. 1 in the U.S., the song was just like the single B-side disco Fever high in the disco charts. Worldwide, the song sold 26 million times.
The following singles Love Me Like a Lover, Dance Little Lady Dance and Dr. Love were all in the same year another great success that reached high chart places. However, an album titled Dance Little Lady was largely ignored despite the many hits.
The following year she was unable to repeat the very large rankings though, yet they had with Rendezvous, Fallin ' in Love in Summertime, and the Medley Love Bug / Sweets for My Sweet, the latter a cover of the Searchers hits, more Top 40 hits and also the associated album Heart ' n' Soul reached the Top 40 in her home the same time they brought in June 1977 a son to the world. Then she put her music career once in the background. With I'll Go Where Your Music Takes Me she had her last chart hit in March 1978. When her marriage broke up after two years, she returned to the recording studio back, but published in 1980 album Just One Smile was a flop.
Mid-80s returned to their music again in the public interest back. A produced by Sanny X remix of their biggest hits I Love to Love reached in Europe once again the top 10 and subsequently also succeeded in placing Dance Little Lady again in a few countries, but a second career for Tina Charles was not it.
In August 2006, the song Higher by Sanny X, in which he Tina Charles took this on as a guest singer, a number 5 hit in the U.S. Billboard Dance Charts.
Discography
Albums
- I Love to Love (1976 )
- Dance Little Lady (1976 )
- 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, backing vocals: Elton John )
- Fly Away ( Airbus, 1974)
- Bye Love ( 5000 Volts, 1975)
- I'm on Fire ( 5000 Volts, 1975)
- Motion Man ( 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 not 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 featuring Tina Charles ( 2005)