Vicki Sue Robinson

Vicki Sue Robinson turned the disco and pop music world ugly with her rousing 1976 TOP Pop smash “Convert the Defeat Around.” A solid, radiant vocalist, Robinson’s information were among among the better produced and organized ’70s disco produces, with solid beats constructed on solid music. Blessed in Harlem in 1955, Robinson’s delivery was the consequence of a union between a dark professional and white folk vocalist. Her professional debut was at the Philadelphia Folk Celebration when she was six. Her eclectic traditions was also shown in her wide-ranging like of various kinds of music performers. As an adolescent, Robinson appeared within the Broadway strike Locks, and having been uncovered by Robert Stigwood (RSO Information, Bee Gees), she became a member of the ensemble of Jesus Christ Superstar. Her mixed profession included stints being a model, professional, waitress, and documenting with Japanese performers Sadistic Mika Music group and Itsuru Shimoda, and a work with Ms. newspaper. Agreed upon to RCA Information in the middle-’70s by manufacturer Warren Schatz, she released four albums for the label: Hardly ever Gonna ENABLE YOU TO Move (1976), Vicki Sue Robinson (1976), Fifty percent & Fifty percent (1978), and Movin’ On (1979). “Change the Defeat Around,” compiled by Pete and Gerald Jackson, reached quantity ten within the Billboard Sizzling 100 graph in summer season 1976, making Robinson a Grammy nomination for Greatest Pop Feminine. Her additional favorites consist of her cover of Bobby Womack’s “Daylight” and “Keep Tight.” Years after her music profession peaked, Robinson starred in her personal 1999 off-Broadway play, Vicki Sue Robinson: Behind the Defeat. The play was a continuation of her well-known, enticing cabaret display. On Apr 27, 2000, at age 46, Robinson passed away of malignancy at her Wilton, Connecticut house.