France Joli
Related: disco - music - Tony Green
Biography
France Joli is a Canadian singer, most known for disco hits. Her first single, at age 16, was called "Come To Me" and it hit #1 on the Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart in 1979. --http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/France_Joli [Oct 2005]Profile
Born in 1963, this Canadian chanteuse had a talent that belied her tender age. France began singing at the age of 4, at home in Dorion Quebec, Canada. She would lip-synch to Barbra Streisand records for friends and relatives using a jump rope or hairbrush as a microphone. By the age of 11 she had begun appearing in talent shows and making television commercials. She had a full-time performing career as a singer, dancer and actress before she reached her teens. --http://www.discomuseum.com/FranceJoli.html [Oct 2005]Profile
- A teenaged pop sensation from the Montreal suburb of Dorion, France Joli began singing at the age of four when she lip-synched to records and performed in front of relatives with a piece of skipping rope for a microphone. In 1974 at eleven years of age, France began singing on amateur talent shows and commercials. Her first hit in 1979 was the song Come To Me, written by Tony Green. That same year it reached number thirteen on Billboard's Hot 100. Managed by her mother Michelle Joli, France later performed on American television, where she appeared on The Bob Hope Special in 1979, The Merv Griffin Show, Dinah Shore, and Midnight Special. France also played two shows a night for a week at the Riviera Hotel in Las Vegas with Peaches And Herb and Tuxedo Junction. In 1982 she played with The Commodores at Radio City Music Hall.
- In French Canadian teen beauty France Joli's "Come To Me," there's a bit of small-world irony too: Even after disco dated the Philadelphia sound, producers continued to look for the Philly magic, and it's the Sweethearts of Sigma, Barbara Ingram, Carla Benson, and Evette Benton, who are singing backup. "Come To Me," in turn, with a vocal cameo by producer/writer Tony Green, represents the generational turning point between traditional Fire Island disco and the more progressive "dance music" of the '80s
- 12" Singles
PRL D 509 France Joli Come To Me/Let Go 1979 mixed by Gene Leone PRL D 510 France Joli Don't Stop Dancing/Playboy 1979 PRL D 610 France Joli Gonna Get Over You 1981 mixed by Francois Kevorkian PRL D 673 France Joli The Heart To Break The Heart 1984ALBUMS
- France Joli 1979
- Tonight 1981
- France Joli Now 1982
- Attitude 1983
produced by Giorgio Moroder