Loleatta Holloway
| Loleatta Holloway | |
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| Background information | |
| Born |
November 5, 1946 Chicago, Illinois, U.S. |
| Died | March 21, 2011 (aged 64) Chicago, Illinois, U.S. |
| Genres | Gospel, soul, disco, dance, garage |
| Occupation(s) | Singer-songwriter |
| Years active | 1967–2011 |
| Labels | Aware, Gold Mind, Salsoul Records, DJ International Records, The Right Stuff Records |
| Associated acts | Albertina Walker, Dan Hartman, The Caravans, Inner Life, Salsoul Orchestra, Joe Bataan, Black Box, Dorothy Norwood, Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch |
| Website | Official MySpace page |
Loleatta Holloway (/lɒlˈiːtə/; November 5, 1946 – March 21, 2011) was an American singer, mainly known for disco songs such as "Hit and Run" and "Love Sensation", both of which have been sampled extensively. In December 2016, Billboard magazine ranked her as the 95th most successful dance artist of all-time.
Holloway began singing gospel with her mother in the Holloway Community Singers and recorded with Albertina Walker in the Caravans gospel group. Holloway was also a cast member of the Chicago troupe of Don't Bother Me, I Can't Cope. Around this time, she met her future producer, manager, and husband Floyd Smith, and recorded "Rainbow ’71" in 1971, a Curtis Mayfield song that Gene Chandler had recorded in 1963. It was initially released on the Apache label, but was picked up for national distribution by Galaxy Records.
In the early 1970s, Holloway signed a recording contract with the Atlanta-based soul music label Aware, part of the General Recording Corporation (GRC), owned by Michael Thevis. Holloway recorded two albums for the label, both of them produced by Floyd Smith — Loleatta (1973) and Cry to Me (1975). Her first single from the second album, the ballad, "Cry to Me" rose to #10 Billboard R&B and #68 on the Hot 100, but before the label could really establish Holloway, it went out of business.
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