Asha Puthli
Asha Puthli (* in Bombay ) is an Indian singer and actress. In her 40 - year career, she took on plates in the fields of jazz, disco, soul and pop.
Career
Asha Puthli began her musical career in the 1960s. This resulted in 1967 in Singapore an EP with the group The Surfers, the cover versions of four international hits, Angel In The Morning, Sound Of Silence, Sunny and Fever, contains. Later Puthli moved to New York and built their careers in the music business. 1971 booked the free jazz pioneer Ornette Coleman, the singer for his album Science Fiction. Puthlis singing can be heard in the songs What Reason Could I Give and All My Life. It was the first time that Coleman ever worked with singing.
A year later Puthli played a permissive role in James Ivory's film Savages, which was banned in India. In 1973, she released her debut album Asha Puthli, in addition to an unusual cover version of George Harrison's I Dig Love, a version of JJ Cale Right Down Here contains. The Fantastic Four took over the piece in 1992 as a sample for their first hit since the. Furthermore Asha Puthli contains the first original composition of the singer on a plate: Truth. Although Puthlis extravagant mix of soul, jazz, funk and psychedelic and Indian elements caused a stir, but could not hold out commercially. The subsequent LP She Loves to Heart the Music did not bring the hoped-for breakthrough.
From the mid- 1970s Puthli recorded numerous disco - dominated boards in Germany, especially in Italy were commercially successful. So there managed the 1976 title track of their LP The Devil Is Loose 1978 in the hit parade, Mr. Moonlight was even made it into the top fifth I'm Gonna Dance was also her only entry in the disco charts in the United States. In 1979, the title at least 67 Place In these years she refrained from time to time on their last name. So the New Wave -inspired LP I'm Gonna Kill It Tonight ( 1980) only appeared as Asha.
1979 returned Puthli for Bruno Corbuccis Squadra anti gangsters back into the movie business. They not only played a starring role, but also contributed two songs, The Whip and The Sound of Money at. In the 1980s, the singer took some time out of the Musikgeschaft back. Many hip- hop artists took over the following decades samples from Puthlis old recordings of their own songs, including Notorious BIG, Diddy, Jay -Z, The Neptunes and Jermaine Dupri. Puthli occurs even for some years back and published in 2008 with Lost again a new CD. A year later, the song Unconditional Love for the film Finding Bliss.
Private
Puthli was married to Marc Goldschmidt. Their son Jannu Alain Goldschmidt was born in 1975 in New York. He tried for several years as a film director, but most recently worked as an editor in television.