Eloise Laws
Lavern Eloise Laws ( * 1949 in Houston, Texas) is an American soul singer.
Career
Eloise Laws comes from a very musical family: Her brothers Hubert ( b. 1939 ) and Ronnie (* 1950) are well-known jazz musicians, her sister Debra is also a singer. The family worked together over the years again and again. Eloise Laws adopted for numerous labels on plates without their managed the big breakthrough. Your first unsuccessful singles released the singer in the late 1960s at Columbia. Between 1969 and 1971 she was a guest several times in that time very popular television shows such as The David Frost Show, The Merv Griffin Show and The Tom Jones Show. She also appeared in 1970 for two weeks with Harry Belafonte on, among others, at Caesars Palace. The industry magazine Billboard certified its great potential and charisma of a Shirley Bassey or Nancy Wilson. At that time belonged Torch songs to her repertoire before all things.
In the early 1970s, she signed a contract with Music Merchant and worked together for two R & B singles with songwriter and producer trio Holland- Dozier -Holland. The trio looked in Laws a successor to Freda Payne, who was stuck in contractual difficulties after some successes. The song Love Factory was indeed at that time not a hit, but develops over the years to become a classic of northern soul scene in the UK. In 1973 sang a duet with Laws Harry Belafonte, So Close, on the album Play Me
After the hopes had not met a hit at Music Merchant, Laws 1975 was briefly a member of the 1966-1973 highly successful vocal group The 5th Dimension. It replaced Marilyn McCoo, who had to leave the band before with her husband Billy Davis Jr.. The following year, Laws took the collaboration with Eddie and Brian Holland on again, which they committed in their label Invictus and changed their style towards disco.
In 1977, their debut album Is not It Good Feeling Good, which contained with Love Goes Deeper Than That and You Got Me Loving You Again Laws ' first hits in the U.S. Disco charts. The following year, after all Laws could celebrate two small hits in the American pop charts: 1,000 Laughs ( number 91 ) and Number One ( # 97, R & B number 78 ). Both titles were also common in the disco charts successful ( No. 21 ) and come from her only album for ABC: Eloise was produced by Linda Creed and Jerry Goldstein and offered a mix of gentle soul and disco. Together with her sister Debra Laws 1978 also sang background on the album Fantasy of the disco group Aquarian Dream, opening concerts of the radio group War.
On Liberty from 1980 Laws celebrated two of her biggest hits in the R & B charts: Strength of a Woman ( # 33 ) and You Are Everything ( No. 53 ) come from Eloise Laws, which was partly produced by her brother Ronnie. As an arranger acted in some songs the Philly soul legend Thom Bell. 1982 Laws now stand at Capitol under contract, followed with the album All Time in a more responsible, Ronnie Laws production. Also Hubert and Debra Laws were involved in this work.
After several years without a record deal, she took only 2000, a new CD: The Key. Followed in 2003 by Secrets. In 2008, she appeared in the musical on It Is not Nothin 'But the Blues.
Laws shall still live on, depending on the occasion also with her siblings as The Laws Family.