Evelyn Thomas, influential disco singer, has died aged 70

Influential disco singer Evelyn Thomas has died aged 70. No explanation for loss of life has been given.

The information was shared by Northern soul legend Ian Levine, who took to X/Twitter to announce Thomas’ loss of life. “It's onerous for me to simply accept that my lifelong protege actually has left us”, he wrote, including that “her music will outlive us all”.

Levine labored with Thomas and co-producer Fiachra Trench to create the Hello-NRG basic ‘Excessive Vitality’ in 1984 and signed the singer to his label in 1975. Although the pair fell out of contact after their final recording session in 2009, Levine revealed that Thomas had “reached out to me in love” just a few months in the past understanding she was dying.

Upon listening to from Thomas, Levine and Trench “instantly dropped every thing” to put in writing one final track for her referred to as ‘Inspirational’. Although Thomas was too sick to report the track, he revealed her daughter Kimberly (aka YaYa Diamond) intends to report the track as a tribute to her mom, including that “Kimberly has been essentially the most superb and caring daughter”.

You may learn the total tribute down beneath:

Evelyn Thomas has died. pic.twitter.com/YFz4hYMOim

— Ian Levine (@IanLevine) July 21, 2024

Evelyn Thomas was born on August 22, 1953 in Chicago, Illinois. Working throughout genres equivalent to disco, dance, and R&B, she was found by Levine in 1975, who signed her to his label.

Thomas scored her first hit together with her debut single ‘Weak Spot’, while follow-up single ‘Doomsday’ would additionally enter the UK charts. The success of each songs, in keeping with Levine, helped Thomas safe a flight to England to seem on High Of The Tops in February 1976.

After that, Thomas signed to Casablanca Data, the place she launched her debut album ‘I Wanna Make It On My Personal’ (written and produced by Levine and Trench). It was in 1984, nevertheless, the place she scored her greatest hit ‘Excessive Vitality’ with Levine, which was “written uniquely and particularly for her”.

“No one else on the planet may have ever sung it”, Levine added in his tribute. ‘Excessive Vitality’ went on to promote seven million data worldwide.

Thomas would go on to maneuver to Levine’s new label Nightmare Data in 1986, the place they'd proceed to work collectively till 1988. Thomas would have extra dance hits within the type of her cowl of ‘Reflections’ by The Supremes, which landed at Quantity 18, and ‘How Many Hearts’ at Quantity 11 – each of which appeared on her remaining album ‘Standing on the Crossroads’ (1986).

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