France Joli
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France Joli | |
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Birth name | France Joly |
Also known as | France Joli |
Born | CBS | February 2, 1963
Website | Official website |
France Joli (French: [fʁɑ̃s ʒɔli]; née Joly; born February 2, 1963)[1] is a Canadian singer, best known for the disco classics "Come to Me" and "Gonna Get Over You".
Teen stardom
Born France Joly in Montreal, Quebec, Canada,[2] Joli grew up in Dorion. Her father was a hardware merchant and her mother was a teacher.
As early as age four, Joli was performing for relatives lip-syncing to Barbra Streisand records while handling a skipping rope like a microphone; she had appeared on television by age six. At age 11, Joli left the public school system (her mother tutored her) to concentrate on her performing career appearing regularly in television commercials and talent shows. A mutual acquaintance suggested Joli meet up with musician Tony Green who Joli approached backstage after he had given a concert, Joli inviting Green to be her record producer. Green did not take the 13-year-old Joli seriously: he recalled: "To get rid of her I [told] her to keep in touch." According to one source, Joli eventually visited Green's home to sing for him; it is also reported that Green first heard Joli sing from the audience of an "end of school year show" in which she performed in the fall of 1978. Both accounts concur that Green first heard Joli singing along with a Streisand record. Green had written the song "Come to Me" for Joli by the next day.[2]
When the producer Green originally commissioned to record Joli indicated a desire to develop Joli as a Francophone singer, Green himself took over production duties for Joli. The tracks Joli cut with Green were picked up by
"Come to Me" began a three-week reign atop the
Joli made her network television debut on October 26, 1979, broadcast of The Midnight Special and she co-hosted the December 7 episode. Her other TV credits included episodes of the talk shows of Mike Douglas, Merv Griffin and Dinah Shore and also a Bob Hope special.
1980 saw the release of Joli's second album Tonight,[2] with the ballad "This Time (I'm Giving All I've Got)" released as a single bubbling under for two weeks peaking at No. 103: this attempt to curry favor in the mainstream market was unsuccessful with Joli receiving support only in the dance club market, where the tracks "The Heart to Break the Heart" and "Feel Like Dancing" achieved a joint position of No. 3: Tonight was ranked on the Billboard album chart at No. 175.[3]
In 1981, Joli's third album Now – produced by Ray Reid and William Anderson from
- 1The track: "Your Good Lovin'" was arranged and produced by Prelude regulars Eric Matthew and Darryl Payne.
- 2"Gonna Get Over You" reached No. 43 on the French Pop chart.[5]
Epic albums
Joli's Epic debut Attitude (1983),
Joli's next Epic release was Witch of Love (1985),
The commercial failure of both of her Epic album releases led to the label dropping Joli, who spent the next ten years with her career focused on performing rather than recording.
1996 and 2000s
In 1996, Joli reunited with
The follow-up single "Breakaway" included remixes geared toward the underground clubs. Two different CD singles of "Breakaway" were released, Part 1 and Part 2. Part 1 had the Junior Vasquez and Eddie Baez mixes of "Breakaway," while Part 2 included additional remixes of "Breakaway," including a remix by Andy the Lamboy, as well one of the Darrin Friedman mixes of "Touch" and a previously unreleased Junior Vasquez mix of "Touch." Both "Touch" and "Breakaway" were featured on Joli's first album in 13 years, If You Love Me (1998).
In recent years,[when?] Joli has performed at clubs and private functions primarily in the New York City area: she has appeared multiple times at the annual KTU Disco Ball at Trump Plaza in Atlantic City, New Jersey.
Joli's "Come to Me" is featured in When Ocean Meets Sky
Discography
Albums
Year | Album | Peak chart positions | Label | ||
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US [3] |
US R&B [3] | ||||
1979 | France Joli (re-released in 1994 as Come to Me) | 26 | 25 | Prelude
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1980 | Tonight | 175 | — | ||
1981 | Now! | — | — | ||
1983 | Attitude | — | — | Epic | |
1985 | Witch of Love | — | — | ||
1989 | Greatest Hits | — | — | UniDisc | |
1998 | If You Love Me | — | — | Popular | |
2010 | Divas of Disco: Live )
(with CeCe Peniston, Linda Clifford, A Taste of Honey and Thelma Houston |
— | — | Pegasus | |
"—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released in that territory. |
Singles
Year | Single | Peak chart positions | Label | ||||
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FR
[5] |
US Hot 100 [3] |
US R&B [3] |
US Adult [7] |
US Dance [3] | |||
1979 | "Come to Me" | 65 | 15 | 36 | 47 | 1 | Prelude
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"Don't Stop Dancing" | — | — | — | — | |||
"Don't Let Go" | — | — | — | — | — | ||
1980 | "The Heart to Break the Heart" | — | — | — | — | 3 | |
"Feel Like Dancing" | — | — | — | — | |||
"This Time" | — | 103 | — | — | — | ||
1981 | "Gonna Get Over You" | 43 | — | — | — | 2 | |
1982 | "Your Good Lovin' " | — | — | — | — | 53 | |
"Can We Fall in Love Again" | — | — | — | — | |||
1983 | "Girl in the 80's" | — | — | — | — | 46 | Epic |
1984 | "Blue Eyed Technology" | — | — | — | — | 61 | |
1985 | "Does He Dance" | — | — | — | — | 40 | |
1997 | "Touch" | — | — | — | — | 24 | Popular |
1998 | "Breakaway" | — | — | — | — | — | |
"Save Me" | — | — | — | — | — | Monogram | |
2012 | "Hallelujah" | — | — | — | — | — | n/a |
"—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released in that territory. |
See also
- List of Billboard number-one dance club songs
- List of artists who reached number one on the U.S. Dance Club Songs chart
References
- ^ Bush, John. "France Joli Biography, Songs, & Albums". AllMusic. Retrieved September 18, 2021.
- ^ ISBN 0-85112-939-0.
- ^ a b c d e f g "France Joli - Awards". AllMusic. Archived from the original on November 30, 2012. Retrieved July 16, 2022.
- ^ Whitburn, Joel (2004). Hot Dance/Disco: 1974–2003. Record Research. p. 138.
- ^ a b "InfoDisc : Tout les Titres par Artiste". April 20, 2012. Archived from the original on April 20, 2012. Retrieved September 18, 2021.
- ^ "When Ocean Meets Sky (2003)". IMDb.com. Retrieved September 18, 2021.
- ^ "France Joli Top Songs / Chart Singles Discography". Music VF. Retrieved July 16, 2022.
External links
- France Joli official site
- France Joli discography at Discogs