April Stevens
April Stevens ( born April 29, 1936 in Niagara Falls, New York; actually Carol LoTempio ) is an American singer. She is primarily known through the musical collaboration with her almost the same brother Nino Tempo ( Antonino Lo Tempio). In the early 1960s, the duo had a string of hits, including their big number 1 success, Deep Purple with Atlantic Records.
Life and work
April Stevens grew up with her brother Antonino and six younger sisters in a middle-class Italian-American family. Starting at the age of eight, she successfully participated in singing and music competitions.
1948 attracted the '' Lo '' Tempios with their children to Los Angeles to be promoting the musical career of her two elder there. At the Belmont High School, she sang with the '' Hoagy Carmichael '' teenagers, they also made demo tapes with other artists. Your First gramophone recording No No No Not That was recorded in 1950 in the recording studio from Laurel Records under Tony Sepe. In order to avoid that their name has been associated with the slightly suggestive song, the record was released under her new stage name April Stevens.
After the collapse of Laurel Records, she moved with her then- manager Al Piantadosi to Society Records and recorded a number of songs like Do not Do It, Shadow Waltz, The Envelope and the Rope, End of Desire, In a Toyland Express and Subway, arranged by Russ Garcia.
In 1951, she was persuaded by Henri Rene to a switch to RCA. Rene was the head of the local A & R department and assisted artists such as Frankie Laine, Dinah Shore and Eartha Kitt. My biggest success so far was at RCA 6th place in the top ten with I'm in Love Again in the same year position with 10 Gimme A Little Kiss, Will Ya, Huh? and position 27 And So to Sleep Again.
After an unhappy love affair with a married Oil chief put it in 1959, her career under Henri Rene, now at Imperial Records, inter alia, entitled Teach Me Tiger continued. Two years later she played with her brother Nino a duet High School Sweetheart for the music department at United Artists.
The national and international breakthrough for Nino Tempo and April Stevens brought her 1963 No. 1 hit Deep Purple, a title with the 1939 Larry Clinton and his orchestra were already in first place of the charts. The following recordings were re-recordings of songs from the 1920s and 1930s. After another Top 20 hit with Whispering, Stardust, Tea For Two, I'm Confessin ' ( That I Love You) ended up mostly in the middle of the charts.
Other plates, such as I Love How You Love Me, Sea Of Love and Hey Baby followed, greater success were again All Strung Out (1966 ), and Wake Up And Love Me, which was published in 1974 under the stage name "April".
After her father's death in 1982 married April 1983 Bill Perman, with whom she lives in Arizona today. In 1985, she began again with recordings, again with her brother Nino, she has continued until the late 1990s. In October 1999, April and Nino were incorporated into the Buffalo Music Hall of Fame.