Angela Bofill

Angela Bofill ( born May 2, 1954 at Bronx, New York, New York) is an American R & B singer. Your reach from the late 1970s some success in the U.S. R & B and dance charts, including her biggest hit Too Tough from the year 1983. The big breakthrough, however, was denied her.

Life and work

Angela Bofill, daughter of a Cuban father and a Puerto Rican mother, studied at the Manhattan School of Music. First she sang as a soloist in the New York Dance Theater of Harlem chorus. Through the mediation of Dave Valentin Dave Grusin, and released the producer Larry Rosen 1978 GRP Records Bofill Angie first album with the hit This Time I'll Be Sweeter. The delicate mix of R & B, soul, jazz, Latin and pop she made known quickly. They " acted here with an impressive two and a half octave vocal range, revealing her penchant for Latin rhythms. " By 1985, she has succeeded, mostly produced by Narada Michael Walden, regularly hits on the R & B charts. The highlight of 1983 was the single Too Tough from the eponymous album, the B and No. 2 reached number 5 in the R & in the dance charts. In the same year she was nominated for Best R & B singer for the American Music Award. Followed in 1988, after a pause her second greatest success: I Just Wanna Stop climbed to number 12, according to her did not manage another hit more. Two albums in the 1990s were hardly successful. In the next few years she appeared primarily on stage in shows such as God Do not Like Ugly or What a Man Wants, What a Man Needs. She also worked in the course of their careers, among others, Dizzy Gillespie, Cannonball Adderley, Herbie Hancock and Stanley Clarke.

Due to a stroke, which caused a left- sided paralysis and damage to the speech center, Bofill had to end her career in 2006. Weeks later, a benefit concert was held in order for the uninsured singer could pay their medical bills. The following year, she suffered another stroke. During a lengthy therapy Bofill was again only in November 2009 interview. In May 2010, Angela Bofill Experience The show, in Bofill's songs have been interpreted by the singer Maysa followed. Bofill itself was also seen for the first time on stage was, however, due to their still impaired health status only anecdotes to their songs for the best.

Discography

  • 2006: Live from Manila
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