Joni Sledge

È Morta La Cantante Joni Sledge. Aveva 60 Anni

... family too. We did. __link__/m 6 f Dm On FUM. — Nile Rodgers (@nilerodgers) March 12, 2017. We are family divenne in breve uno dei brani dance più conosciuti e ballati nel mondo e il ritornello 'We are family, I got all my sisters with me" era il manifesto del progetto delle Sledge: celebrando la loro unità familiare, le sorelle in quegli anni divennero anche il simbolo della consapevolezza e dell'unità di intenti delle donne. Sia la canzone che l'album in cui era contenuta vendettero più di un milione di copie, e le Sledge ottennero anche una nomination per il Grammy. Joni e le sue sorelle scalarono le classifiche anche con altri brani celeberrimi come Lost in music, He's the greatest dancer e Thinking of you: quest'ultima  in particolare è considerata da molti critici una delle migliori espressioni della disco music disco di tutti i tempi. Le Sister Sledge hanno continuato a esibirsi anche quando l'onda del successo si è allontanata: dopo l'addio di Kathy, che si è dedicata a una carriera solista, le tre sorelle hanno inciso dischi e non hanno interrotto ...

Joni Sledge Of R&b Group Sister Sledge Has Died At 60

... the Top 30 on the American R&B charts. Kathy, the group’s lead singer, left the act in 1989 for a solo career. The other sisters continued to perform and record together; Sledge even served as producer for the 1997 disc African Eyes. All four sisters later regrouped for an all-star remake of We Are Family with the likes of Diana Ross, Roberta Flack, Debbie Gibson, Taylor Dayne and Matthew Modine, among others, that was designed to raise funds for 9/11 charities. "It really kind of shook us all," Sledge told The Republic. "People started re-evaulating, and so did we. We were reminded of how much we value the gift that God gave us, and how much fun it is to just hang out together.". Debbie, Joni and Kim Sledge of the group Sister Sledge in an undated photo. (Photo: Bang Showbiz). The Sledge family connection to Arizona started when Joni Sledge moved to the state in 1992 due to her then-husband's work. Debbie followed for the same reason. Both marriages ended, but Joni ...

We Are Family' Singer Joni Sledge Dies At 60

... Sledge was originally made up of Joni and three of her sisters — Debbie, Kim, and Kathy — though Kathy parted ways with the group in 1989. They hailed from Philadelphia and formed the group in the early 70 s, inspired by their opera-singing grandmother. Their biggest hit, "We Are Family", written by Bernard Edwards and Nile Rodgers of Chic, came eight years after they got together and during a difficult time for the group professionally. "We were saying: 'Well, maybe we should go to college and just become lawyers or something other than music, because it really is tough,'" Sledge told The Guardian in an interview last year. The We Are Family recording session (their big hit was also the title of the album on which it was recorded) "was like a one-take party – we were just dancing and playing around and hanging out in the studio when we did it," she added. You Tube. Another song from the same album, "He's ...

Joni Sledge, Member Of 'we Are Family' Hitmakers Sister Sledge, Dies At 60

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Décès De Joni Sledge, L'une Des Soeurs Du Hit Disco We Are Family

... Kathy et Kim, filles de deux artistes, ont grandi à Philadelphie et s'étaient fait une certaine réputation en chantant du R&B dans les années 1970. Mais c'est en 1979 qu'elles rencontrent véritablement le succès avec "We Are Family", écrit par Nile Rodgers et Bernard Edwards devenus des figures majeures de la folie disco avec leur groupe Chic. Joni Sledge avait confié l'an dernier au quotidien britannique The Guardian qu'elle et ses soeurs envisageaient avant ce succès de changer de voie et de se mettre à des études de droit. "Enregistrer +We Are Family+ c'était comme une fête, nous dansions et nous amusions dans le studio", a-t-elle raconté. Nile Rodgers a présenté ses condoléances sur Twitter, écrivant: "nous avons réalisé ensemble quelque chose de vraiment incroyable". Malgré l'unité affichée par les soeurs, Kathy a quitté le groupe pour une carrière en solo, créant des tensions. Sister Sledge se réunissait sous divers formats pour se produire dans des circonstances comme la fête des familles du pape François à Philadelphie en 2015 ou la campagne électorale d'Hillary Clinton pour l'élection présidentielle en 2016. Joni Sledge avait expliqué en 2015 au ...