Angie Gold Explained
Angie Gold (born Angelina Fiorina Kyte) [1] is a British singer whose song "Eat You Up" was a dance hit in 1985.
Biography
Born into a musical and artistic Italian family, at the age of eight she was already performing in clubs on weekends.[2] At 17 she did her first TV show.
In 1978, Angie Gold released a single in Germany on Polydor. The title song, "Der schönste Tag" (English translation: "The most beautiful day"), was a previously unreleased adaptation of "If I Had Words".[3]
At the age of 22, she was a contestant on a Saturday night TV show called Search for a Star, where she was spotted by the CBS / Epic Sony record label. After signing a contract with them, she released a Gus Dudgeon-produced single titled "Every Home Should Have One". After another single, she recorded her debut album, which was released in 1982.[4]
Gold's second album, produced by Ben Findon, appeared later in the year. In 1982 from that album she competed at the 11th Tokyo Music Festival (held at the Budokan), winning a "silver" award.[5]
In 1985, she released a song titled "Eat You Up",[6] which reached number 30 on the US Billboard disco chart. A Japanese-language cover of the song, titled "Dancing Hero", was released by Yōko Oginome as her seventh single.[7] The original (published in Japan under the title "Suteki na High Energy Boy") was also popular there, spending four consecutive weeks at the very top of Oricon's International Singles Chart in early 1986.[8]
In 1988, Gold became the new voice of the South-African Hi-NRG band People Like Us and recorded songs including "Resurrection" and "Two to Tango". She also recorded the ballad "Prayer for You", which was originally co-written by Cindy Dickenson.
In late 2007, she reunited with Ian Levine (with whom she worked in the 1980s and 1990s, starting with the 1986 single "Applause" on Passion Records) to record a new song titled "No Pain No Gain" for the various artists album Disco 2008.
As of 2007–2009, she lived in the Canary Islands.[9] [10]
Discography
Albums
Studio albums
- Angie Gold (1982)
- A Lady of Gold (1982)
- Applause (1986)
- Angie Gold (1988)
Compilation albums
- The Best of Angie Gold (1995)
Albums with People Like Us
Singles
External links
Notes and References
- Web site: Angie Gold interview. 2020-09-21.
- Web site: Angie Gold Biography. https://web.archive.org/web/20111216154821/http://www.angiegold.com/en/biography. 2011-12-16. Angie Gold official website. 2019-12-07.
- Web site: ultratop.be - Angie Gold - Der schönste Tag. Ultratop. 2019-12-07.
- Web site: Angie Gold Discography. https://web.archive.org/web/20111215080819/http://www.angiegold.com/en/music. 2011-12-15. 2019-12-07. Angie Gold (1982).
- Book: Nielsen Business Media, Inc.. Billboard. 17 April 1982. Nielsen Business Media, Inc.. 52–. 0006-2510.
- Web site: ultratop.be - Angie Gold - Eat You Up. Ultratop. 2019-12-07.
- Web site: 80年代に日本人がカバーして大ヒットした元ネタ洋楽5曲！. OKMusic. 2017-05-22. 2019-12-07.
- Web site: オリコンのデータ協力による "全曲、80年代の週間オリコンチャートNo.1" の洋楽コンピが登場！. 2017-08-08. Sony Music Japan. 2019-12-07.
- Web site: Ian Levine. Angie Gold - You Take My Breath Away - YouTube. YouTube. 2019-05-27. 2019-12-08. Angie had a massive High Energy hit with "Eat You Up", one of the biggest disco records to ever cross over in Japan. I recorded her for several labels, I mixed "Success" and produced "Third Finger Left Hand" for Passion, I cut "Right Back In The Middle" for Nightmare and an entire album, "THe Best OF Angie Gold" on Hot, from Miami. She now lives in the Canary Islands.-->.
- Web site: Ian Levine. Angie Gold - Eat You Up - YouTube. YouTube. 2009-01-10. In late 2007, I was privileged to record an all brand new album called "Disco 2008", which led to me being reunited once again with Angie Gold. We cut a brand new retro disco high energy stomper, called "No Pain No Gain". I first worked with Angie in 1986,when I mixed her Passion single, "Applause" and have to say that the most recent song for my Disco 2008 album had to be unashamedly one of the gayest record of the last twenty years. Easily !!!! Angie is a studio legend and has appeared on countless tracks as one of the UK's top session singers. She had a huge hit with 'Eat You Up' in Japan, becoming one of the two biggest ever Western language records to be successful in the Orient, selling about ten million copies there. Angie recorded in the 1980s under many names, and her voice appears on countless dance hits. She worked with me many times, for Passion, Nightmare, and an entire album on Record Shack, distributed by the now defunct Hot Records, in the early 1990s. I mixed "Applause" and produced "Third Finger Left Hand" for Passion, I cut "Right Back In The Middle" for Nightmare and the album, "The Best Of Angie Gold" on Hot, from Miami. She now lives in the Canary Islands. The Divas rule once again. When we did the album in the 1990s, we re-recorded her huge High Energy anthem, "Eat You Up', and here she is performing it. Check out the wonderful song "You Take My Breath Away", here on YouTube - my personal favourite Angie Gold song of all time.-->. 2019-12-08.
- Web site: Angie Gold Chart History (Dance Club Songs). Billboard. 2019-12-07.
- Book: Kent, David. David Kent (historian). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992. illustrated. Australian Chart Book. St Ives, N.S.W.. 1993. 0-646-11917-6. 127.
- "Eat You Up":
Web site: オリコンのデータ協力による "全曲、80年代の週間オリコンチャートNo.1" の洋楽コンピが登場！. 2017-08-08. Sony Music Japan. 2019-12-07.
