Evelyn may refer to:

• Evelyn (name), for people named Evelyn
• Evelyn (film), a 2002 film starring Sophie Vavasseur and Pierce Brosnan
• Evelyn: The Cutest Evil Dead Girl, 2002 award-winning short film and black comedy directed by Newfoundlander Brad Peyton
• Hurricane Evelyn, fifth hurricane of the 1977 Atlantic hurricane season
• Evelyn 7", 2005 release by Australian group The Mess Hall
• Evelyn (play), a 1969 radio play by Rhys Adrian

Places

• Evelyn, London, UK
• Evelyn, Ontario, Canada
• Evelyn, California, USA
• Evelyn, Michigan, USA
• Evelyn (VTA), light rail train station in Mountain View, California, USA
• Evelyn County, New South Wales, Australia
• Electoral district of Evelyn, an electoral district in Victoria, Australia
• 503 Evelyn, a main belt asteroid

Schools

• Evelyn College for Women, or Evelyn College, the former women's college of Princeton University
• Evelyn High School, in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe

See also [link]

• Evelyne

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Evelyn Glennie
Evelyn Glennie at Moers Festival 2004
Background information
Birth name	Evelyn Elizabeth Ann Glennie
Born	(1965-07-19) 19 July 1965 (age 46), Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Occupations	Percussionist
Instruments	Percussion

Dame Evelyn Elizabeth Ann Glennie,^[1] DBE (born 19 July 1965) is a Scottish virtuoso percussionist. She was the first full-time solo percussionist in 20th-century western society.^[2]

Early life[link]

Glennie was born and raised in Aberdeenshire. Her father was Herbert Arthur Glennie, an accordionist in a Scottish country dance band, and the strong, indigenous musical traditions of north-east Scotland were important in the development of the young musician, whose first instruments were the mouth organ and the clarinet. Other major influences were Glenn Gould, Jacqueline du Pré and Trilok Gurtu. She studied at Ellon Academy and the Royal Academy of Music, and was also a member of the National Youth Orchestra of Scotland.

Career[link]

Glennie tours extensively in the northern hemisphere, spending up to four months each year in the United States, and performs with a wide variety of orchestras and contemporary musicians, giving over 100 concerts a year as well as master classes and "music in schools" performances;she frequently commissions percussion works from composers and performs them in her concert repertoire.

She also plays the Great Highland Bagpipes and has her own registered tartan known as "The Rhythms of Evelyn Glennie". Glennie is in the process of producing her own range of jewellery and works as a motivational speaker.

Deafness[link]

Glennie has been profoundly deaf since age 11. This does not inhibit her ability to perform at the international level. She regularly plays barefoot during both live performances and studio recordings in order to "feel" the music better.^[3]

Glennie contends that deafness is largely misunderstood by the public. She claims to have taught herself to hear with parts of her body other than her ears. In response to criticism from the media, Glennie published "Hearing Essay" in which she discusses her condition.

Collaborations[link]

Glennie was featured on Icelandic singer Björk's album Telegram, performing the duet "My Spine". She has collaborated with many other musicians including former Genesis guitarist Steve Hackett, Bela Fleck, Bobby McFerrin, Fred Frith and The King's Singers.

On 21 November 2007, the UK government announced an infusion of £332 million for music education. This resulted from a successful lobbying spearheaded by Glennie, Sir James Galway, Julian Lloyd Webber, and Michael Kamen, who also (in 2002/2003) together formed the Music in Education Consortium.^[4]

Personal life[link]

In 1994, Glennie married composer, sound engineer and tuba player Greg Malcangi, with whom she collaborated on several musical projects. They divorced in 2003 following her widely-publicised affair with orchestral conductor Leonard Slatkin.^[5]

Recognition[link]

Glennie has won many awards, including:

• Best Chamber Music Performance in the Grammy Awards of 1989
• Scot of the Year 1982
• Queen's Commendation prize for all round excellence 1985
• Scotswoman of the Decade 1990
• Best Studio and Live Percussionist from Rhythm Magazine 1998, 2000, 2002, 2003 & 2004
• Walpole Medal of Excellence 2002
• Musical America Instrumentalist of the Year 2003
• Sabian Lifetime Achievement Award 2006
• Percussive Arts Society: Hall of Fame – November 2008^[6][1]

She has been awarded 15 honorary doctorates from universities in the United Kingdom, was awarded the OBE in 1993, and was promoted to DBE in the New Year's Honours of 2007.^[7] She owns over 1800 percussion instruments from all over the world and is continually adding to her collection. She was also a VIP of the music industry. Dame Evelyn Glennie is also an Ambassador of the Royal National Children's Foundation (formerly the Joint Educational Trust) which helps support vulnerable, disadvantaged young people at state and independent boarding schools throughout the UK.

Albums[link]

• Rhythm Song (1990)
• Veni, veni Emmanuel (1993) (Catalyst 09026-61916-2. All pieces composed by James MacMillan. Scottish Chamber Orchestra.)
  • Veni, Veni, Emmanuel
    • Introit – Advent
    • Heartbeats
    • Dance – Hocket
    • Transition: Sequence I
    • Gaude, Gaude
    • Transition: Sequence II
    • Coda – Easter
  • After the Tryst
  • "...as others see us..."
    • Henry VIII (1491–1547)
    • John Wilmot (1647–1680)
    • John Churchill (1650–1722)
    • George Gordon (1788–1824) and William Wordsworth (1770–1850)
    • Thomas Stearns Eliot (1888–1965)
    • Dorothy Mary Hodgkin (b. 1910)
  • Three Dawn Rituals
    • Larghetto
    • Allegro moderato
    • Andante
  • Untold
• Wind In The Bamboo Grove (1995)
• Shadow Behind the Iron Sun (1999)
• The Sugar Factory (featuring Fred Frith; 2007)

Films[link]

• Touch the Sound (2004). Directed by Thomas Riedelsheimer, featuring a collaboration with Fred Frith. The farm where she grew up burned down during the production of the film, but her brother, Roger (who is featured in the film), and the animals, were unhurt.^{[citation needed]}

Autobiography[link]

• Good Vibrations: My Autobiography^[8]

Television appearances[link]

• ZingZillas (2010). Appeared in episode 19 ("Hide and Seek") playing tubular bells on the BBC channel CBeebies.^[9] and in episode 50 ("Where's the Bug?") playing the waterphone.^[10]
• Sesame Street (2009). Appeared playing percussion with Oscar The Grouch's Grouchkateer Trash Band.^[11]

References[link]

External links[link]

• Evelyn Glennie's website
• TED Talks: Evelyn Glennie shows how to listen to music with your whole body at TED in 2003
• Evelyn Glennie interview by Bruce Duffie

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Evelyn Thomas (born Ellen Lucille Thomas, August 1953) is an American singer from Chicago, Illinois, best known for the dance hits "High Energy", "Masquerade", "Standing At The Crossroads", "Reflections", and "WeakSpot".

Thomas has an entertainment incorporated company, called Eljopan Entertainment Incorporated.^[1]

Music career[link]

Although best known worldwide for her 1980s Hi-NRG club hits, Thomas recorded and performed in disco, jazz, and gospel music styles for a decade before her successful stint in the 1980s. Discovered by British producer Ian Levine, who was in the US in 1975 scouting for gospel and soul singers he could promote in the UK, the two recorded several tracks which resulted in a contract with 20th Century Records.^[2] Evelyn Thomas scored a chart hit with her first single, reaching the UK Top 30 in 1976 with the single "Weak Spot," co-written by Levine and Paul David Wilson . A follow-up single, "Doomsday", entered the UK charts twice but each time floundered in the lower reaches, and sticky contract issues complicated her newfound success^{[citation needed]}, though Levine and Thomas would continue their association for quite some time. She signed to US label Casablanca Records for her first album release I Wanna Make It On My Own, released 1978. With Casablanca doing little to promote the LP, she switched to AVI Records for the double A-side 12" single "Have a Little Faith in Me" / "No Time to Turn Around" which prompted the label to release it as an LP, backed with Rick Gianatos' extended remixes of her 1976 tracks "My Head's in the Stars" and "Love's Not Just an Illusion". For a follow-up, Evelyn Thomas re-recorded three tracks from an aborted project by Levine's group Moonstone, "Love in the First Degree", "Summer on the Beach" and "Sleaze" (originally entitled "Out of the Ball Game") but with the disco backlash in the US, the tracks were left unreleased, and Levine and Thomas' careers stalled as the 1980s began.^{[citation needed]}

High-NRG[link]

Although disco music had been declared "dead" in the US in a backlash in 1979, several songs which continued and advanced the exuberant surge of uptempo dance music managed to scale the US pop charts in the intervening years, notably Blondie's "Call Me" in 1980, Laura Branigan's "Gloria" in 1982, and Irene Cara's "Flashdance (What A Feeling)" in 1983. Unwilling to use the term "disco", the phrase "high energy" had come into usage, probably^{[citation needed]} begun in England in the early 1980s. By 1984 Ian Levine had re-established himself as a producer and asked Evelyn Thomas to come to London to record a new track "High Energy". Just few weeks after it was released, it zoomed up the charts all over Europe - peaking at No. 1 in Germany and No. 5 in the UK, selling a total of 7,000,000 copies^{[citation needed]} worldwide. In the US it hit No. 1 on the Hot Dance Club Play chart, selling 250,000 copies^{[citation needed]}. The song was her only Billboard Hot 100 entry, peaking at #85, although three additional songs hit the Billboard dance chart. However, Thomas never got paid for the song, although Ian Levine did.^[1]

By 1984, the phrase had become embraced as a term by DJs across Europe and in the States, particularly in gay clubs where DJs who preferred to play records that surpassed a certain BPM (Beats Per Minute) threshold found many mainstream hits lagging in tempo. Evolving around that time to the abbreviated "Hi-Energy," the term soon became further shortened to "Hi-NRG", and was still widely in use more than two decades later to describe a certain genre of uptempo dance music.

Later career[link]

The follow-up single "Masquerade" was taken from her third album High Energy, released the same year. While it received heavy rotation in European clubs, it failed to break into the UK Top 40. In the US the song was a top-twenty Dance hit. The following year, "Heartless" became her only single other than "High Energy" to chart outside of the Club/Dance charts in the United States. "Heartless" peaked at #84 on the Black Singles chart (later renamed the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles & Tracks chart) in 1985.

Though she would not return to the US pop or R&B charts, US dancefloors continued to move to the fast beat of Evelyn Thomas. With a cover of the Supremes' 1967 hit "Reflections", updated in her Hi-NRG style, Thomas peaked at #18 on the Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart in 1986, the same year in which Kim Wilde had a similarly styled hit with the Supremes' "You Keep Me Hangin' On". A second Thomas release that summer fared even better on those charts, as "How Many Hearts" narrowly missed the top 10. The two songs would later appear on Thomas' fourth album release, Standing at the Crossroads, in 1987. In late 1987, the single "No Win Situation" shot to #1 on the now defunct UK Hi-NRG chart. After the singles "Only Once in a Lifetime" (1988) and "This Is Madness" (1989), both on Levine's Nightmare Records label, Thomas withdrew from the music business.^{[citation needed]}

In spring 1997, Redemption featuring Evelyn Thomas had a minor US club hit with the track "Tell The World".

Comeback in the 2000s[link]

A new remix of her largest hit was released in 2004 as "High Energy 2004" and became a worldwide gay club hit.^{[citation needed]} The remix was released on Dance Street/ZYX Records out of Germany in early 2005. The remix secured moderate radio and club play Stateside. This song was then ripped off by Daz Sampson in 2005 who tried to get it released in the UK before the Germans could release their remix.^{[citation needed]}

In May 2008, Evelyn Thomas took part in the major RTL Disco Tour, performing in 15 cities throughout France. While in Europe, Thomas completed several new recordings in different countries with the aim of making a comeback. She has teamed up with Ian Levine for the first time in 20 years, recording the tracks "Pounding the Pavement", "One in a Million" and "I Can't Give You the World". She has recorded four tracks, "Stick to the Plan", "Missing the Target", "Infidelity" and the ballad "Why Must the Sunrise" for a diva album called The Plan for Night Dance Records, produced by Scandinavian songwriter Soren Jensen in collaboration with Clive Scott, formerly of Jigsaw. Thomas has also teamed up with French team Evolusound for a single release, "Prove It", written and produced by Frank Savannah and remixed by Laurent Schark.

In 2009, Thomas released a duet with Carol Jiani, "Are You Man Enough", produced by the Australian team of Peter Wilson and Chris Richards aka T1 Productions.^{[citation needed]}

Discography[link]

Albums[link]

• I Wanna Make It On My Own (Casablanca Records NBLP 7107, 1978)
  1. "I Wanna Make It on My Own"
  2. "It's the Magic of Your Touch"
  3. "Look No Further"
  4. "Thanks for Being There"
  5. "Back to Reality"
• Have a Little Faith in Me (AVI Records AVI-6069, 1979)
  1. "Have a Little Faith in Me"
  2. "No Time to Turn Around"
  3. "My Head's in the Stars"
  4. "Love's Not Just an Illusion"
• High Energy (Record Shack SOHOLP-4, 1984)
  1. "Masquerade"
  2. "Heartless"
  3. "Running Wild in the Night"
  4. "High Energy"
  5. "Second Best"
  6. "Chalk It Up to Experience"
  7. "Shy Guy"
• Standing at the Crossroads (Record Shack SOHOLP-10, 1986)
  1. "Standing at the Crossroads"
  2. "How Many Hearts"
  3. "Cold Shoulder"
  4. "Sorry Wrong Number"
  5. "Reflections (Suite)"
  6. "Number One Lover"
  7. "Tightrope"
  8. "Reflections"

Compilations[link]

• The Best of Evelyn Thomas Hot Productions 1991
• High Energy: The Best of Evelyn Thomas Hallmark 2000

Singles[link]

• "Weak Spot" (20th Century, 1976)
• "Doomsday" (20th Century, 1976)
• "Love's Not Just an Illusion" (20th Century, 1976)
• "My Head's in the Stars" (20th Century, 1977)
• "Thanks for Being There" (Casablanca UK, 1978)
• "Have A Little Faith In Me" / "No Time to Turn Around"(AVI, 1979)
• "High Energy" (#1 US Dance, #5 UK) (Record Shack, 1984)
• "Masquerade" (Record Shack, 1984)
• "Heartless" (Record Shack, 1984)
• "Sorry Wrong Number" (Record Shack, 1985)
• "Reflections" (Record Shack, 1985)
• "How Many Hearts" (Record Shack, 1986)
• "Cold Shoulder" (Record Shack, 1986)
• "Tightrope" (Nightmare, 1987)
• "Standing at the Crossroads" (Nightmare, 1987)
• "No Win Situation" (Nightmare, 1987)
• "High Voltage" (Paris International, 1987)
• "Only Once in a Lifetime" (Nightmare, 1988)
• "This Is Madness" (Nightmare, 1989)
• "Move Your Body" (1993)
• "Tell the World" (1997)
• "High Energy 2004" (2004)
• "Stick to the Plan" (Night Dance Records, 2008)
• "Prove It"
• "Are You Man Enough" (duet with Carol Jiani)

See also[link]

• List of artists who reached number one on the US Dance chart

References[link]

External links[link]

• Bio and discography on Rateyourmusic

Evelyn "Champagne" King (born July 1, 1960) is an American R&B, disco and post-disco singer. Some of her best-known songs are "Shame", "Love Come Down," and "I'm in Love."

Biography[link]

Evelyn King was born in the Bronx, New York, and raised in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Her uncle Avon Long had played the part of Sportin' Life in Porgy and Bess and worked with Lena Horne at the Cotton Club. Her father sang back-up for groups at Harlem's Apollo Theater.

She was discovered as a young woman while working with her mother at Philadelphia International Records as an office cleaner. Producer Theodore T. Life overheard her singing in a washroom and began coaching her. She was eventually signed to a production deal with Life's Galaxy Productions and a recording contract with RCA Records.^[1]

Career[link]

King released her debut album, Smooth Talk, in 1977. The album included the song "Shame", which is her only top ten on the Billboard Hot 100, peaking at #9. The song also reached #7 R&B and #8 on the dance chart. The record was eventually certified gold. Another single from that album, "I Don't Know If It's Right", peaked at #23 on the Billboard Hot 100 and #7 R&B. This would become her second certified gold single. In 1981, the single "I'm in Love" was released from the same-titled album. It reached #1 on the R&B singles chart and dance chart in August of that year. It also peaked at #40 on the pop charts.

In 1982, King released the album, Get Loose. It yielded a top twenty pop and #1 R&B hit with the single, "Love Come Down". The song also peaked at #1 on the dance charts and reached the UK Singles Chart top ten, peaking at #7 for three weeks. The follow-up, "Betcha She Don't Love You," peaked at #2 on the R&B chart and #49 on the pop chart. From the mid- to late 1980s, King would continue to chart on the R&B charts, placing eight singles in the R&B top twenty, with three making it to the top ten.

On September 20, 2004, King's "Shame" became one of the first records to be inducted into the Dance Music Hall of Fame at a ceremony held in New York's Spirit club.^{[citation needed]}

Return to music[link]

On August 14, 2007, King released her first studio album in 12 years, Open Book. It featured the single "The Dance," which peaked at #12 on the Hot Dance Club Play Chart.

In 2011, King also collaborated with deep house DJ Miguel Migs, on the track "Everybody", which was included on his album Outside the Skyline. The single for "Everybody" was released on July 19, 2011.

Discography[link]

Studio albums[link]

Compilation albums[link]

Singles[link]

See also[link]

• List of number-one dance hits (United States)
• List of artists who reached number one on the US Dance chart

References[link]

External links[link]

• Evelyn "Champagne" King official website
• Evelyn "Champagne" King at Allmusic
• Evelyn "Champagne" King discography at Discogs

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