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artist: Patrick Hernandez
album: Born To Be Alive
label: Aquarius
cat: JC 55 558
year: 1979
genre: Disco
source: Vinyl
grabber: Audition
encoder: LAME 3.90.3 --Alt-Preset Standard
quality: VBRkbps / 44,1kHz / Joint-Stereo
size: 11,10 MB
link: n/a
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│tracklist.
no. time track title
01 03:13 Born To Be Alive (Mix 1)
02 03:42 Born To Be Alive (Mix 2)
total time: 06:55 min
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│release notes.
Yes we were born... born... born... born to be alive!
Patrick Hernandez (born 6 April 1949) is a French singer who had a
huge worldwide hit with "Born To Be Alive" in 1979.
Hernandez was born in Guadeloupe, France, to a Spanish father and a
half Austrian and half Italian mother. Growing up in the 1960s, he
became interested in music, and toured dancehalls and ballrooms of
southern France with a number of groups over the next decade.
Hernandez met his music partner Herve Tholance, an arranger,
guitarist and vocalist, during that period. The five formed a duo
and started achieving local success backing French musicians like
Francis Cabrel, Laurent Voulzy and the French group Gold among
others.
In 1978, Hernandez met producer Jean Van loo, and with disco music
at its peak, decided it was time to try his hand at disco. Vanloo
agreed and signed Patrick to a contract. He was then sent to
Waterloo, Belgium to work on songs.
After working for about a year, the first of the resulting six
songs would change Hernandez's life forever and make him an
international star for a short period. The songs were released on
the Aariana sub-label Aquarius Records in November of 1978. The
first single released was the disco song entitled "Born To Be
Alive". Its success was immediate and in January 1979, Hernandez
received his first Gold Record from Italy. The song spread
throughout Europe where it hit number one in France in April and
remained there till July. By then America had caught on and through
some remixing, Columbia Records released it on a commercial 12"
single. It shot up the disco charts to number one and crossed over
to the Top 40 peaking at number 16. By year's end Hernandez had
racked up an impressive 52 Gold and Platinum Record awards from
over 50 different countries.
While Hernandez was touring the United States of America he was
accompanied by his producer Jean Vanloo and his friend Jean-Claude
Pellerin. Vanloo and Pellerin held auditions in New York that
spring for dancers to accompany Hernandez on his worldwide tour.
The chosen dancers included a young Madonna.
Hernandez's follow-ups to "Born To Be Alive" did not fare as well
in America. "Disco Queen" backed with "Show Me The Way You Kiss"
did not get any radio support and sold poorly, but the album "Born
To Be Alive" still sold well and won him a Billboard Award in
February of 1980.
In 1981, Hernandez released the import 12" single of "Goodbye",
first released on Aariana records and then a remixed version on the
parent-label Aquarius Records. By then disco had "died" in America
and no label was found to license it domestically. An album
followed the 12" release but without an American distribution deal
it went virtually unnoticed in the US.
In the 1980s and 1990s, Hernandez toured and had occasional
appearances on other artists albums in Europe. A remix of "Born To
Be Alive" appeared in clubs in 1987. In 1995, a compilation of his
two albums were released in America as The Best Of Patrick
Hernandez on Hot Records.
Since its 1978 release Born To Be Alive has sold more than 800,000
units annually under various forms and compilations globally, and
it has brought in over 25 million dollars worldwide.
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