The last interview of Evelyn Thomas - High Energy Diva
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- Опубликовано: 16 сен 2024
- Ellen Lucille "Evelyn" Thomas (born August 22, 1953) is an American singer from Chicago, Illinois, best known for the Hi-NRG dance hits "High Energy", "Masquerade", "Standing at the Crossroads", "Reflections", and "Weak Spot". Thomas has an entertainment incorporated company, called Eljopan Entertainment Incorporated.
Although best known worldwide for her 1980s Hi-NRG, techno club hits, Thomas recorded and performed disco, Eurobeat, R&B, and dance music songs in the 1980s. She was discovered by British producer Ian Levine, who was in the US in 1975 scouting for gospel and soul singers he could promote in the UK. The two recorded several tracks which resulted in a contract with 20th Century Records. Evelyn Thomas scored a chart hit with her first single, reaching the UK top 30 in 1976 with the single "Weak Spot," co-written by Levine and Paul David Wilson. A follow-up single, "Doomsday", entered the UK charts twice, and Levine and Thomas would continue their association for quite some time. She signed to US label Casablanca Records for her first album release I Wanna Make It on My Own, released 1978. With Casablanca doing little to promote the LP, she switched to AVI Records for the double A-side 12-inch single "Have a Little Faith in Me" / "No Time to Turn Around" which prompted the label to release it as an LP, backed with Rick Gianatos' extended remixes of her 1976 tracks "My Head's in the Stars" and "Love's Not Just an Illusion".
By 1984 Ian Levine had re-established himself as a producer and asked Evelyn Thomas to come to London to record a new track "High Energy". Just few weeks after it was released, it was a chart hit in Europe - peaking at No. 1 in Germany and peaked at No. 5 in the UK. The song was her only Billboard Hot 100 entry, peaking at No. 85, although three additional songs hit the Billboard dance chart.
The follow-up single "Masquerade" was taken from her third album High Energy, released the same year. While it received heavy rotation in European clubs, it failed to break into the UK top 40.[4] Later in the year, "Heartless" became her only single other than "High Energy" to chart outside of the dance charts in the United States. "Heartless" peaked at No. 84 on the Black Singles chart (later renamed the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles & Tracks chart) in 1985.
Though she would not return to the US pop or R&B charts, she had a dance chart hit with a cover of The Supremes' 1967 song "Reflections", peaking at No. 18 on the Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart in early 1986. A second Thomas release that summer fared even better on the dance charts, with "How Many Hearts" narrowly missing the top 10, peaking at No. 11. The two songs would later appear on Thomas' fourth album release, Standing at the Crossroads, in 1986.
RIP I never heard of Evelyn Thomas until today. She had a beautiful voice. Beautiful too!! RIP Evelyn!!❤❤❤
Wonderful singer. I've been a huge fan since I heard her disco music from the 1970s. Evelyn was one of the biggest artists of the 80s HINRG disco scene.
RIP such a lovely gracious talented and classy lady may her legacy and grace live on forever
Rest in Heavenly Peace, Thank you for sharing your heart and your talent with the world.
RIP. Thank you for all the songs
Rest in Peace lovely Lady
Love her. She is so humble. I have all the official remixes of high energy, the two 1990 remixes are very fresh.
My second fav song from her is "high voltage" , I love the intro, she had sing over some advanced synthesizer sound engineering tracks like this one.
Good interview.
Very nice to see ! Evelyn such a great artist and lovely, the way she talks is a pleasure. Also good to hear she is still busy with music ! Regards from Amsterdam
RIP EVELYN THOMAS ❤❤❤❤❤. This must be one of her final video interviews. ❣️
Very nice interview, thank you Lautaro ! In the 80s and today "High Energy" is still a floorfiller. A real magic song 🪄⚡⚡⚡
Que emoaz descanse Evelyn Thomas era hermosa y de joven ni se diga la canción de hig energy era de las mejores y la forma de bailarla la hacía más sexi gran cantante.
Diosa total ! besos desde Buenos Aires.¡
Acá te amamos!
RIP 🕊 ET 🙏🏽
RIP🙏
Rest in Gods peace Evelyn.
Hi Evelyn, it is so nice to see you here. It reminds me of the fab time we had recording our four tracks back in 2008. Stick To The Plan, baby, and good luck with your new EP!
Gracias por el video.Saludos
Hola. Quiero felicitarte por tus entrevistas! Por esta, por las que hiciste relacionadas a Boney M/Farian. Por todas! Realmente un hallazgo porque creí estar solo en el gusto por estos artista, sus estilos y sus músicas... Te felicito también por saber hacer la entrevista, hacer preguntas especificas sobre el proceso de creación, grabación y producción de una canción, de estas canciones que aún hoy siguen siendo tan icónicas. A por más! Gracias!
Muchísimas gracias por tan lindas palabras. Gracias totales.
I know this lady before she made it famous in Chicago we live next door to each other 1605😊 she live in 1606