New York, 1954 style to heavy muffled sounding jazz ballad that anticipates the follower of fashion divas like Anita Baker Soul and Regina Belle in the late 1970s.
At the time, its success shows there is an alternative to disco.
Raised in the Bronx, this daughter of a former lead singer of Latin jazz Machito, teaches herself to sing very early before learning the piano at ten years. In high school she was part of a vocal group called the Puerto Rican Supremes and even recorded a first 45-t. My Friend, which sells very well in the Hispanic community. Everything seems predestined to the future in this cultural milieu until his passing in the choirs of Harlem Dance Teater introduced him to jazz.
She composes a sequel Under the Moon and Over the Sky and performs regularly with artists such as Stan Getz and Benny Goodman.
In 1978, Angela is made under contract by the GRP mark that makes him record a debut album, Angie , followed the next year Angel of the Night the content away from to flirt with jazz and soul. Substantial sales of this compilation, as the arrival on the charts What I Would not Do (for the Love of You) , show him the way to go when his contract is transferred from Arista.
Something About You in 1981 and especially Too Tough , a Top 5 hit from the album of the same name two years later, reinforce his star status of ballad, before his popularity began to show signs of weakness in the middle of the decade. This does not Angela Bofill recording six albums for Arista in the colors ( Teaser , Let Me Be the One , Tell Me Tomorrow ), Capitol ( intuition in 1988) Jive ( I Want to Love Somebody in 1993) and Shanachie ( Love in Slow Motion in 1996), while increasing stage appearances with the New York Jazz Explosion and studio with Stanley Clarke, Stacy Lattisaw, Johnny Mathis and Marion Meadows ( Love Was Never in 1992).
Biography taken from the book Encyclopedia of Rhythm & Blues and Soul by Sebastian Danchin, Fayard (2002).
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