Giuffria
Giuffria is an American AOR band of the 1980s.
History
The band was founded in the early 1980s by keyboardist Gregg Giuffria, who was a musician in the American rock band fishing in the 1970s. The other band members were vocalist David Glenn Eisley, bassist Chuck Wright, drummer and guitarist Craig Goldy Alan Krigger.
In 1984, the band received a recording contract with the label MCA Records, the same year appeared the first, self-titled album. This climbed to position 26 of the U.S. album charts and the first single Call To The Heart reached # 15 on the Billboard Hot 100, the band succeeded in 1985 with the song Lonely in Love, another chart success. As a result, Giuffria occurred among others in the interlude of great rock bands like Deep Purple and Foreigner and toured in Japan.
Craig Goldy and Chuck Wright left the band, they were replaced by Lanny Cordola and David Sikes. In 1986 the second album of the band was titled Silk & Steel. Although it reached # 60 on the album charts and the first single I Must Be Dreaming was able to position ( a cover of Mink DeVille song) on place 52 on the Hot 100, the record company announced the MCA record deal.
Shortly after, the band broke up and Gregg Giuffria founded, under the direction of the Kiss musician Gene Simmons, with Lanny Cordola ( gt ) and Chuck Wright ( Bs ), the hard rock band House Of Lords.