Dion DiMucci

Dion DiMucci was born July 18, 1939 in the Bronx, New York, United States. He was a singer and songwriter whose career began in popular music in the 50s with his group known as Dion & the Belmonts.He went solo in the early 1960s and continued to have hits with songs like "Runaround Sue", "The Wanderer" and "Ruby Baby" until 1964, when changing public tastes and heroin addiction caused him to enter a commercial decline. During the mid-1960s, he struggled with his addictions and recorded songs in a folk-rock vein. After getting clean from drug use (he has remained clean ever since except for a brief period in the mid-1970s) he switched to protest songs in the late 1960s; his best-known song as a soloist, "Abraham, Martin, and John", was a response to the 1968 assassinations of Martin Luther King and Robert F. Kennedy. He continued to record protest songs into the 1970s.

His Born To Be With You album, produced by Phil Spector and released in 1973, was a commercial disaster, but has been cited by Jason Pierce of Spiritualized as a major influence on Spiritualized's work.

In the late 1970s, Dion recorded albums in the Contemporary Christian Music vein. In the 1980s and 1990s, he returned to secular pop music.


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In the 1980s and 1990s, he returned to secular pop music. She is credited as a guest vocalist on Thunderpuss's track So Fabulous So Fierce, which also appears in the Dance Dance Revolution video game series. In the late 1970s, Dion recorded albums in the Contemporary Christian Music vein. Presently, Enriquez is seeing her newest single, "Why", climb the dance charts both in America and overseas. His Born To Be With You album, produced by Phil Spector and released in 1973, was a commercial disaster, but has been cited by Jason Pierce of Spiritualized as a major influence on Spiritualized's work. However, she did score another pop hit in 1999, as part of a supergroup called Stars On 54, which consisted of Enriquez, Dutch techno performer Amber, and house diva Ultra Nate; the three women joined forces to cover the disco tune "If You Could Read My Mind" for the movie 54. He continued to record protest songs into the 1970s. Since 1997, Enriquez has had several club hits in America, but has not received radio support or gotten sales support from the mainstream public.

Kennedy. "A Little Bit Of Ecstacy" is remembered to this day, due to its recent inclusion on the DDR Max 2 PlayStation 2 game. After getting clean from drug use (he has remained clean ever since except for a brief period in the mid-1970s) he switched to protest songs in the late 1960s; his best-known song as a soloist, "Abraham, Martin, and John", was a response to the 1968 assassinations of Martin Luther King and Robert F. However, it had stronger sales than "Do You Miss Me" (peaking at #1 on the Hot Dance Music/Maxi-Singles Sales chart, as opposed to #8), which enabled it to reach #55 on the Hot 100. During the mid-1960s, he struggled with his addictions and recorded songs in a folk-rock vein. Its followup, "A Little Bit Of Ecstacy" was not quite as big a radio hit, failing to cross over to the pop stations and peaking at #25 at dance radio. He was a singer and songwriter whose career began in popular music in the 50s with his group known as Dion & the Belmonts.He went solo in the early 1960s and continued to have hits with songs like "Runaround Sue", "The Wanderer" and "Ruby Baby" until 1964, when changing public tastes and heroin addiction caused him to enter a commercial decline. "Do You Miss Me" became a top 40 hit at dance and pop radio (#17 and #38 peaks, respectively), and peaked at #49 on the Hot 100.

Dion DiMucci was born July 18, 1939 in the Bronx, New York, United States. Jocelyn peaked at #182 on the Billboard 200 albums chart and at #11 on the Billboard Heatseekers chart. In 1996, she moved to Tommy Boy Records, where she released her debut single, "Do You Miss Me" in late 1996 and her sophomore album, Jocelyn in early 1997. Her debut album, Lovely was released in 1994 on Classified Records. She is of Filipino descent: her parents are from the province of Pangasinan.

Jocelyn Enriquez is a dance singer from San Francisco.